01/INTRO

Asiri JayawardenaSoftware Engineer - Data Platforms & Agentic AI

Software Engineer with professional experience designing, building, and operating enterprise-scale distributed systems, event-driven data platforms, and resilient backend services in production environments. Experienced in developing high-throughput data processing pipelines, cloud-native applications, observability solutions, and scalable microservices, complemented by a strong full-stack engineering foundation. Active researcher in agentic AI, with a focus on multi-agent systems, intelligent automation, and AI-driven software engineering.Software Engineer with professional experience designing, building, and operating enterprise-scale distributed systems, event-driven data platforms, and resilient backend services in production environments. Experienced in developing high-throughput data processing pipelines, cloud-native applications, observability solutions, and scalable microservices, complemented by a strong full-stack engineering foundation. Active researcher in agentic AI, with a focus on multi-agent systems, intelligent automation, and AI-driven software engineering.

Based in Sri Lanka--:-- CMB

02 / SELECTED WORK

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Things built, and why.

[ ALL PROJECTS ]

Enterprise Grade Kafka Data Consumer

Professional · Sysco LABS

High-throughput, configuration-driven streaming ingestion.

OMEGA Agentic System

Professional · Sysco LABS

Plugin-based agentic workflow platform built on Google ADK.

ETL Monitoring & Recovery Tool

Professional · Sysco LABS

Serverless ETL tracking and automated recovery service.

Enterprise Grade Kafka Producer

Professional · Sysco LABS

Configuration-driven publishing service.

INTELLEA - Multi-Agent Adaptive Learning Platform

Research · SLIIT

Final-year research project: an AI-powered adaptive learning platform built as four independently designed modules.

CodeJam Competition Platform

Personal · Software Engineering Student Community (SESC), SLIIT

Competitive code-fixing platform wrapped around GitHub, built to run the CodeJam 2026 competition.

CertForge

Personal · Software Engineering Student Community (SESC), SLIIT

Open-source digital credentialing platform: design, issue, verify, and track certificates in one place.

03 / CAPABILITIES

08 GROUPS

What the work is built from.

Languages

Java
Python
TypeScript/JavaScript
SQL

Backend

Spring Boot
FastAPI
NestJS
Node.js
Express
.NET/C#
Java Servlets/JSP
Socket.IO
Prisma
Flyway
pg-boss

Frontend

React
MERN
HTML/CSS
Bootstrap
Tailwind CSS
Three.js
React Native/Expo
Vite
Redux Toolkit
Zustand
TanStack Query
Framer Motion

Databases & Streaming

MongoDB
DynamoDB
Aurora/PostgreSQL
IBM Db2
MySQL
Redis
Apache Kafka
Confluent Cloud
Avro
Schema Registry
Athena
S3
MinIO

Cloud & Infra

AWS (ECS Fargate, Lambda, Step Functions, EC2, CloudFormation, SAM, CodeBuild, SSM, Aurora Serverless v2)
Azure (Logic Apps, Power Automate)
Firebase
Docker

Observability & AI

Datadog
CloudWatch
LGTM stack
LangGraph
Google ADK
RAG
Pinecone
MCP
OpenAI APIs
YOLO
OpenCV

CI/CD & Practices

Jenkins
CodeBuild
GitHub Actions
GitHub Apps
Git
Agile
Data Structures & Algorithms

Testing

JMeter
Groovy
Jest
Testcontainers
Puppeteer

04 / PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Where the work has happened.

02 ROLES

Associate Software Engineer
Sysco LABS Sri Lanka
September 2025 to July 2026
- Developed and operated Kafka-based consumer and producer services on Confluent Cloud (Avro, Schema Registry), delivering resilient, high-throughput streaming across non-production and production.
- Maintained the platform's ETL data flows and built an application to actively monitor these services, reducing operational overhead and manual intervention.
- Built internal developer tooling and agentic systems, including an AWS Self-Service Deployment Platform (IDP) that standardized deployments, and plugin-based agentic workflows (Google ADK) that automated engineering tasks and reduced onboarding effort.
- Owned end-to-end delivery of the services built, authoring Jenkins and CodeBuild CI/CD pipelines and provisioning AWS infrastructure (ECS Fargate, Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, SAM).
- Built and tuned platform observability with Datadog across ECS, RDS, APM, and Kafka consumers for STG and PROD; developed performance dashboards and conducted multi-phase Kafka load testing (JMeter + Groovy, AWS SSM).
Quality Engineering Intern
Sysco LABS Sri Lanka
September 2024 to September 2025
- Created and maintained automated test suites for internal applications, expanding regression coverage and reducing manual testing effort.
- Developed internal testing tools to validate Kafka-based microservices, exercising both producer and consumer paths against expected message contracts and schemas.
- Built a data-verification tool connecting to multiple IBM Db2 databases concurrently, executing cross-database queries and performing automated validation to confirm data integrity across systems.

05 / VOLUNTEERING

01 ROLE

Work done for the community.

Vice President
Software Engineering Student Community (SESC), SLIIT
July 2025 to July 2026
- Led multiple community-driven initiatives including industry visits, technical workshops, and hackathons.
- Ran student initiatives for the community across the term of the role.
- Built and contributed two platforms to the community directly: the CodeJam Platform, which ran the CodeJam 2026 competition, and CertForge, an open-source credentialing tool that removed the community’s dependence on third-party certificate services.

06 / CONTACT

Software Engineer - Data Platforms & Agentic AI

Most recently Associate Software Engineer at Sysco LABS Sri Lanka, September 2025 to July 2026.

or write directly asirijayawardena920@gmail.com

Email: asirijayawardena920@gmail.com
Location: Mount Lavinia, Dehiwala, Sri Lanka
Elsewhere: GitHub (opens in a new tab)LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)
CV: Download PDF

07 / ASK

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02 / SELECTED WORK

03 / CAPABILITIES

Languages

Backend

Frontend

Databases & Streaming

Cloud & Infra

Observability & AI

CI/CD & Practices

Testing

04 / PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Software Engineer

Quality Engineering Intern

05 / VOLUNTEERING

Vice President

06 / CONTACT

07 / ASK

Asiri JayawardenaAsiri JayawardenaSoftware Engineer - Data Platforms & Agentic AISoftware Engineer - Data Platforms & Agentic AI

02 / SELECTED WORK

03 / CAPABILITIES

Languages

Backend

Frontend

Databases & Streaming

Cloud & Infra

Observability & AI

CI/CD & Practices

Testing

04 / PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Software Engineer

Quality Engineering Intern

05 / VOLUNTEERING

Vice President

06 / CONTACT

07 / ASK

Asiri JayawardenaSoftware Engineer - Data Platforms & Agentic AI

Asiri JayawardenaSoftware Engineer - Data Platforms & Agentic AI