Career & case studies
Sixteen years, one thread: regulated finance.
From the lending desk to the platform team to the practice that builds them — every role on one page, the way a hiring manager would want to read it.
Timeline
- 2008–2011
Banking operations · People's Bank of Sri Lanka
General ledgers, reconciliation, clearing, back-office and regulatory compliance.
- 2011–2016
Retail lending & collections · People's Bank of Sri Lanka
Managed an LKR 1bn loan portfolio across personal, SME and business financing; built debt-recovery tooling improving collections on LKR 50M/month in non-performing assets.
- 2016–2022
Assistant Manager, Digital Transformation · People's Bank of Sri Lanka
Peoples Pay, LankaQR & JustPay, eKYC/vKYC, RLOS — the bank’s retail digital stack.
- 2022–now
Senior PM → AVP → VP, FinTech & Operations · Arimac Lanka (Pvt) Ltd
Scaled the practice 8→65+ engineers and 1→14 fintech products across South Asia & MENA. Hands-on with architecture, releases and DevOps.
- 2024–now
Visiting Supervisor · Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT), Sri Lanka
Final-year project supervision — ML/DL, FinTech systems, Agile and software project management.
Case studies
People's Bank · Digital banking platform
Peoples Pay — a 1M+ user mobile bank
Wallet and mobile banking for one of Sri Lanka’s largest state banks: 1M+ users, 4.6★ across 20,000+ reviews.
Read the case study →People's Bank · Merchant acquiring
LankaQR & JustPay — 50,000 merchants in six months
National QR standard and instant-payment integration, taking the bank into merchant acquiring at speed.
Read the case study →People's Bank · Digital onboarding
eKYC / vKYC — 60% faster customer onboarding
Digital and video KYC fused into Peoples Pay, cutting onboarding time by 60%.
Read the case study →People's Bank · Lending platform
Morbius RLOS — a $5M loan origination rollout
Retail loan origination digitised across 100+ branches — and 1,000+ staff trained on the new way of lending.
Read the case study →People's Bank · Core banking
Silverlake core banking — Loans & Collections module
Enhancing the heart of the bank: the loans and collections module of the Silverlake core.
Read the case study →Arimac · AI risk platform
Sherlock — EDD & fraud risk management with AI
An AI platform for enhanced due diligence and fraud risk management: KYC onboarding, ongoing AML monitoring, video KYC, and ML-driven transaction fraud detection.
Read the case study →Arimac · Leadership & regional delivery
Scaling a fintech practice across South Asia & MENA
From 8 to 65+ engineers and 1 to 14 products — payment aggregation, BNPL, wallets and digital KYC delivered with regional compliance know-how.
Read the case study →Architecture
Systems designed across the stack — platform, microservices and payments. Diagrams are redrawn at the pattern level; no internal documents.
Platform · banking
Dual active-active Kubernetes platform
Two HA clusters in active-active, five-namespace tenancy isolating core banking, GPU-accelerated ML fraud detection and KYC workloads — GitOps via ArgoCD, secrets in Vault, images in Harbor, state in Oracle RAC.
Microservices · ML
SEE — effort-estimation platform
From MSc research to running system: a hybrid LSTM–XGBoost model behind a BFF gateway with model, user-management and effort-calculation services, load-balanced. 23% RMSE improvement over standalone XGBoost; 40% over COCOMO.
Payments · pattern
Wallet & acquiring platform pattern
The shape behind Peoples Pay and Sherlock: channel apps over an API layer, with payment, KYC and risk services meeting the core bank and national rails behind compliance boundaries.