Adithya Ekanayaka
Software engineer building AI systems that have to earn their place.
adithya@adithyasean.com github.com/adithyasean linkedin.com/in/adithyasean Colombo, Sri Lanka
Experience
Software Engineer, Araaya Business Solutions
Jul 2026 – now
- Architected and built Business Agent, Araaya's multi-tenant AI concierge for WhatsApp and Telegram, on Cloudflare's serverless platform; in production since October 2026.
- Leading a Java runtime modernisation of a national government platform behind an end-to-end gate that runs on every pull request.
- Cold-restored a large legacy database and verified it table by table before migration work.
- Built a deploy-and-verify loop: every merge deploys to a review environment and is checked against the running commit before release.
- Rebuilt araaya.com as an Astro site on Cloudflare Workers, with legal pages diff-checked in CI.
Associate Software Engineer, Araaya Business Solutions
Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
- Engineered a stateful form-automation system for a government land platform, with fuzzy matching, dynamic field population and validation.
- Built a browser form-filling assistant that reads source documents with Gemini vision or a local Ollama model, backed by a Cloudflare Worker and D1.
Intern Software Engineer, Sri Lanka Telecom
Feb 2025 – Aug 2025
- Developed Visage, a real-time face-recognition attendance system that keeps working offline at the edge and syncs to a central server.
- Wrote a C++ edge inference module for face recognition on resource-constrained devices.
- Built the FastAPI backend for telemetry, registration and attendance logs, with a React dashboard.
Selected work
Business Agent
Sep 2026 – now
An AI concierge that answers a business's WhatsApp and Telegram customers from its own catalogue, takes orders, and hands over what it shouldn't decide.
Smart home mesh
Aug 2026 – now
Voice, speakers and cameras across a house, run on local hardware, that refuses any request it can't verify.
Forge
Feb 2026 – now
Small tool-calling specialists that an AI agent can train, test and promote on its own, on consumer hardware.
Diabetic retinopathy grading
Sep 2026 – Oct 2026
Grades retina photos for diabetic retinopathy and flags who should see a specialist.
WhatsApp gateway for agents
Sep 2026 – Oct 2026
Lets AI agents read, search and send on a WhatsApp account through MCP, REST and server-sent events, without trusting a word they read.
Agent fleet
Jul 2026 – now
Nine machines that Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity operate under explicit authority, from one source of configuration.
Education
BSc (Hons) Computing
2024 – now
National Institute of Business Management (NIBM), Colombo, awarded by Coventry University
Higher National Diploma in Software Engineering
2023 – 2024
National Institute of Business Management (NIBM), Colombo
Diploma in Software Engineering
2022 – 2023
National Institute of Business Management (NIBM), Colombo
G.C.E. Advanced Level, Mathematics stream
2019 – 2022
Mahanama College, Colombo
Awards and certificates
- Rootcode Tech-Triathlon 2025, finalist, Top 8 finalist (Sep 2025)
- Commercial Bank International Hackathon, finalist, Top 8 of 30 teams (Aug 2024)
- Introduction to Linux, The Linux Foundation (Sep 2025)
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2024 Generative AI Certified Professional, Oracle (Jul 2024)
Skills
- Languages
- Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Swift, Kotlin, C++, SQL
- AI and ML
- LoRA and PEFT fine-tuning, MLX, PyTorch, Unsloth, Hugging Face, Ollama, Gemini, Workers AI, MCP, OpenCV, InsightFace, Evaluation design
- Backend and data
- FastAPI, Spring Boot, Node.js, Express, Prisma, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, D1, Apache Solr
- Cloud and operations
- Cloudflare Workers, D1, KV, R2, Durable Objects, Queues, Access, Tunnel, Docker, GitHub Actions, Oracle Cloud, Azure, Linux
- Apps
- SwiftUI, Android (Kotlin), React, Next.js, Astro
- Edge and hardware
- ESP32, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, ROS
- Testing
- pytest, Playwright, JUnit, Vitest