Computer Science & Engineering undergraduate building full-stack products, AI-assisted automation, and real-time data systems.
Seeking a software engineering internship to ship reliable, user-focused systems.
🎓 BSc (Hons) Computer Science & Engineering — University of Moratuwa (Expected 2028)
🔭 Currently focused on
- Full-stack product engineering (React, Next.js, TypeScript, FastAPI)
- Agentic AI systems, RAG, and ML pipelines
- Real-time data platforms (Kafka, MQTT, Redis, TimescaleDB)
- Shipping production tools for ops, logistics, and business automation
🌱 Building through CritiCo — an AI-focused venture for agentic systems and data-driven products
🌐 Portfolio: buwaneka.xyz
Feb 2026 – Present · Sri Lanka
- Building agentic systems and data-driven products for real business problems
- Leading product discovery, technical planning, and delivery across frontend, backend, data, and AI
- Designing an enterprise CRM for student immigration companies; security audit & integration support for KC Overseas Colombo
- Delivered an SEO-ready site + RAG assistant for Temple Gate Solicitors, and launched the Prime Apostille website
Feb 2026 – Jul 2026 · Remote
- Built an end-to-end invoice automation platform for Studio Nicholson (UK) — Gmail monitoring, AI PDF extraction, invoice-coding rules, and Xero sync
- Developed a React dashboard for invoice review, error resolution, and processing logs
- Configured Google Cloud, OAuth, and Gmail APIs for secure automated email ingestion
Mar 2025 – Oct 2025 · Sri Lanka
- Built and maintained the AIESEC Exchange Data Platform and internal apps (Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, MongoDB)
- Migrated exchange data from legacy SQL to MongoDB; shipped dashboards and operational data-management tools
Project highlights
FreshLens — Project Lead & Full-Stack Engineer
FastAPI · PostgreSQL · PyTorch · Celery · Redis · Expo · Next.js · Docker
Led a 3-person team; Expo vendor app + Next.js spoilage dashboard; RLS tenant isolation; async ML pipeline (R2 → Celery/Redis → CNN → Postgres).
Smart Campus Digital Twin
Python · FastAPI · React · Kafka · MQTT · Redis · TimescaleDB · Spark · MLflow · Docker
Multi-service IoT platform for sensor ingestion, streaming analytics, ML, and campus-state visualization.
HemasMind / CritiCo — AITHON 2026 Elite 10
Next.js · FastAPI · Socket.IO · CrewAI · PostgreSQL
AI pharmaceutical supply-chain intelligence for Hemas Pharmaceuticals Lanka — multi-agent procurement workflows with real-time dashboards.
KandyPack Logistics Platform
FastAPI · MySQL · React · TypeScript · JWT · RBAC · Docker
Multi-role logistics platform: warehouse-scoped access, order/fleet workflows, scheduling, and map-based route analytics.
Temple Gate RAG
FastAPI · Gemini · Hugging Face · Supabase/pgvector
Retrieval-augmented assistant for a UK law firm, grounded in scraped case studies and knowledge base content.
Spot the Difference — OctWave 2.0 Finalist
OWL-ViT · Siamese ViT · CLIP · TTA · Weighted Boxes Fusion
ML pipeline detecting added, removed, and changed objects between image pairs.
CritiCo Smart Grocery Planner — AgenTrix 2026
CrewAI · Gemini · FastAPI · Next.js · ChromaDB · MongoDB · RAG
Multi-agent meal planner for Sri Lankan households with store-by-store basket optimization.
Languages
Frontend
Backend & Data
AI / ML & Cloud
Also: Kafka · MQTT · TimescaleDB · InfluxDB · Celery · Socket.IO · CrewAI · MLflow · XGBoost · Cloudflare R2 · pgvector · RAG
Awards
- Ranked 68th globally — IEEEXtreme 19.0
- Elite 10 — AITHON 2026 (HemasMind / CritiCo)
- Finalist — OctWave 2.0
- Finalist — SLIIT CyberShield 4.0
- Merit Award — SLIIT CODEFEST 2025 CTF
Leadership
- Chairperson — SLIoT Challenge 2026 (Dec 2025 – May 2026): led a national IoT competition with IESL & SLT-Mobitel
Certifications
- Machine Learning Specialization — DeepLearning.AI / Coursera (2024)
- AWS Academy Cloud Foundations (2024)
- Junior Penetration Tester Path — TryHackMe (2024)
