AI platforms
Designing observable AI workflow systems, evaluation paths, and production guardrails that teams can operate with confidence.
Technical leadership for AI workflows, scalable platforms, cloud architecture, and developer tooling
Jerome Thayananthajothy
Technical Lead | AI-Driven Systems Architect | AWS & Full-Stack Expert | Open Source Contributor
Open to selected global technical-leadership conversations.
I’m a Technical Lead and Generative AI Engineer focused on building intelligent, high-scale systems that merge traditional full-stack engineering with next-generation AI capabilities. Over the past decade, I’ve led architecture modernization initiatives across e-commerce, analytics, and workflow automation driving multimillion-pound cost reductions, boosting performance, and introducing AI-augmented features like semantic search and agentic workflows. I’m particularly interested in AI-enhanced infrastructure, multi-cloud orchestration (AWS, Azure, GCP), and scalable developer ecosystems. My engineering philosophy is rooted in system design, observability, and enabling teams to ship fast with confidence.
Sino Lanka Group
Leading architecture and engineering strategy for scalable business systems at Sino Lanka Group.
11+
Years experience
Technical leadership and product engineering
1,000+
Open-source stars
Across the featured GitHub projects
100K+
Daily users
Platforms built for high-volume operations
4
Core strengths
AI, architecture, full stack, and delivery
What I can lead
Senior engineering work where architecture, product judgment, and team standards meet.
The site is positioned for focused conversations around work where technical leadership has to create leverage, not only write code.
Architecture modernization
Moving legacy platforms toward typed services, clearer boundaries, and resilient delivery without pausing commercial momentum.
Engineering standards
Raising code quality, release hygiene, observability, and review practices so teams ship faster with fewer hidden costs.
Product delivery
Connecting technical choices to user value, roadmap trade-offs, and maintainable product execution.
Selected Work
Open-source tools with real adoption, plus product work with commercial intent.
The portfolio leads with projects that have earned usage and trust. Each card keeps the story practical: what it is, why it exists, and the engineering choices behind it.
Product
Euclidius
A hate speech detection neural network which analyzes sentence sentiment to determine if the content is hateful, offensive, or acceptable.
- Analyzes sentence sentiment for content moderation.
- Classifies text as hateful, offensive, or acceptable.
Creator and maintainer
Fetch PHP
45127
Modern PHP HTTP client inspired by JavaScript's fetch API. Async/await, streaming, SSE, middleware, RFC 7234 caching, and full PSR-7/18 compliance.
- Fetch PHP is a modern HTTP client library for PHP that brings JavaScript's fetch API experience to PHP. Built on top of Guzzle, Fetch PHP allows you to write HTTP code with a clean, intuitive JavaScript-like syntax while still maintaining PHP's familiar patterns.
- With support for both synchronous and asynchronous requests, a fluent chainable API, and powerful retry mechanics, Fetch PHP streamlines HTTP operations in your PHP applications.
PHPfetchfetch-apifetch-phpguzzle
Creator and maintainer
Filterable
19510
Enhance Laravel queries with adaptable, customisable filters and intelligent caching to improve both performance and functionality.
- Filterable is a Laravel package for turning HTTP request parameters into rich, composable Eloquent query filters. The base Filter class exposes a stateful pipeline that you can extend, toggle, and compose with traits to add validation, caching, logging, rate limiting, memory management, and more. Everything is opt-in, so you enable only the behaviour you need while keeping type-safe, testable filters.
- Laravel 11.x, 12.x, or 13.x components ( illuminate/cache , illuminate/contracts , illuminate/database , illuminate/http , illuminate/support )
PHPdatabase-querieseloquenteloquent-ormeloquent-orm-models
Creator and maintainer
phpvm
16810
Simple PHP version manager for MacOS and Linux.
- phpvm is a lightweight PHP Version Manager that allows you to easily install, switch between, and manage multiple PHP versions via the command line.
- Seamlessly switch between installed PHP versions. Run commands with a specific PHP version without globally switching ( phpvm exec , phpvm run ). List available remote PHP versions from your system package manager ( phpvm ls-remote ). Install the latest available remote PHP version with phpvm install latest-remote . Update phpvm in place using phpvm self-update to pull the latest stable script version. Resolve ver…
Shellamd64apple-siliconarm64bash
Creator and maintainer
Comet
15610
A cross-platform desktop app powered by FFmpeg for easy, beautiful media conversion.
- Comet is a cross-platform media converter application designed to make the conversion of video, audio, and image files as easy and accessible as possible. Built on top of FFmpeg, Jimp , and Electron , Comet offers a seamless and efficient user experience for media conversions, all within a simple, intuitive interface.
- Comet's goal is to provide a free, user-friendly, and visually appealing application for converting media files. Whether you need to convert a single file or multiple files at once, Comet is designed to make the process straightforward.
TypeScriptcometcross-platformelectroneslint
Creator and maintainer
Matrix
592
Bringing JavaScript-style async to PHP! Manage asynchronous tasks with ease using a modern, fiber-powered API for seamless concurrency and error handling.
- Matrix provides small, event-driven async helpers for ReactPHP. It makes promise composition, concurrency limits, retries, timeouts, cancellation, and rate limiting consistent without pretending to create threads or process-level parallelism.
- PHP 8.3 or newer react/event-loop 1.6 or newer react/promise 3.3 or newer
PHPasyncfiberjavascriptmatrix
Insights
First-hand notes on AI systems, platform modernization, and developer tools.
A curated publication for practical engineering judgment: decisions, trade-offs, architecture lessons, and reusable patterns.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Event-driven asynchronous PHP: engineering lessons from Matrix
Practical lessons from building async PHP primitives around task design, failure boundaries, observability, and developer ergonomics.
Async PHPEvent-driven systemsLibrary design
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Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
What maintaining a 450-star developer tool taught me about API design
Lessons from Fetch PHP on naming, defaults, documentation, backwards compatibility, and designing APIs that developers can remember.
API designOpen sourceDeveloper experience
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Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Modernizing legacy platforms while continuing product delivery
How to modernize commercial platforms without freezing delivery: stabilize boundaries, prioritize change paths, and earn trust through small releases.
Platform modernizationTechnical leadershipProduct delivery
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Career
A full-stack path shaped by leadership, architecture, and delivery.
The timeline keeps the story concise while making the most relevant recent roles easy for hiring leaders to scan.
May 2026 - Present
Technical Lead
Sino Lanka Group, Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
Leading architecture and engineering strategy for scalable business systems at Sino Lanka Group.
- Guides architecture direction across full-stack systems and cloud delivery.
- Focuses on reliable engineering practices and observability.
Oct 2025 - May 2026
Technical Lead
KAYA, Colombo
Led full-stack systems and AI workflow engineering for the KAYA platform and client-facing applications.
- Designed AI workflow engines with LangGraph.
- Led distributed application work across Kubernetes clusters.
- Worked across Node.js, TypeScript, Laravel, and PostgreSQL.
Dec 2024 - Sep 2025
Technical Lead
Brompton Bicycle, Greenford, England, United Kingdom
Led architecture modernization by migrating from a fragmented multi-vendor headless stack (Vue Storefront + Alokai) to a unified Laravel + Vue.js 3 platform on AWS, cutting costs by £130K/month (~£1.56M/yr) and eliminating revenue-based fees.
- Built an AI-powered full-text search engine, augmenting MySQL’s native capabilities with semantic and vector-based search for product discovery and analytics.
- Integrated and orchestrated multi-stack systems, including MuleSoft for service orchestration and Oracle NetSuite for ERP synchronization and order lifecycle automation.
- Reduced checkout latency from 4.2s → 1.5s (60%+ improvement), boosting conversion rates by 12%.
- Shifted release cadence from monthly to biweekly and reduced technical debt by 30%, enforcing new internal architecture and CI/CD standards.
Jul 2023 - Dec 2024
Senior Software Engineer
NetWatch Global®, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Rebuilt and scaled up a mature 10-year-old project from scratch, ensuring enhanced performance and reliability.
- Established and enforced industry standards for the engineering department and all company software, contributing to a more efficient and cohesive development process.
- Worked extensively with PHP, TypeScript, VueJS, AWS DynamoDB, and MySQL/PostgreSQL, leveraging these technologies to deliver robust and scalable solutions.
- Designed, developed, and deployed three major projects, each meeting critical business objectives and user needs.
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
Senior Software Engineer
MacroActive™, Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Worked extensively with PHP, TypeScript, VueJS, ReactJS AWS Dynamo DB and MongoDB.
- Designed, developed and deployed three major projects and was working on fourth project before resignation.
- Responsibilities included but was not limited to training new recruits, performing code reviews and planning weekly sprints.
Jan 2020 - Jul 2020
Senior Software Engineer
Elegant Media Australia, Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
Delivered client and platform features as a Senior Software Engineer at Elegant Media Australia.
- Progressed from Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer in January 2020.
Apr 2019 - Jan 2020
Software Engineer
Elegant Media Australia, Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
Developed client and platform features as a Software Engineer at Elegant Media Australia.
- Contributed to client-facing software before progressing to Senior Software Engineer.
Jan 2018 - Mar 2019
Software Engineer
Seven's Idea (PVT) Ltd, Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
Built application features and client integrations as a Software Engineer at Seven's Idea.
- Worked on both product features and client integration work.
Jan 2017 - Jan 2018
Software Engineer
Alta Vision Solar, Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
Delivered business systems and web applications as a Software Engineer at Alta Vision Solar.
- Progressed from Associate Software Engineer to Software Engineer in January 2017.
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
Telecommunications Engineering Intern
Sri Lanka Telecom, Trincomalee, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka
Completed a telecommunications engineering internship at Sri Lanka Telecom in Trincomalee.
- Returned to Sri Lanka Telecom for a second telecommunications engineering internship.
Oct 2015 - Jan 2016
Telecommunications Engineering Intern
Sri Lanka Telecom, Trincomalee, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka
Completed a telecommunications engineering internship at Sri Lanka Telecom in Trincomalee.
- Gained early-career experience in telecommunications engineering.
Jun 2015 - Jan 2017
Associate Software Engineer
Alta Vision Solar, Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
Built business systems and web applications as an Associate Software Engineer at Alta Vision Solar.
- Progressed to Software Engineer at Alta Vision Solar in January 2017.
Expertise
Depth where it matters: architecture, teams, products, and delivery.
Engineering Leadership
Technical direction, standards, mentoring, delivery planning, and cross-functional product collaboration.
Technical Staff Management
AI & Architecture
Workflow orchestration, system design, semantic search, event-driven systems, and scalable service boundaries.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)GenAIMicroservices
Full Stack
Modern frontend and backend engineering across typed applications, APIs, data stores, and product interfaces.
SOCIAMSearch EnginesPostgreSQLMuleSoft Anypoint PlatformScrumAgile MethodologiesMongoDBSoftware DocumentationWeb ApplicationsManaging Technical PersonnelNode.jsInertia.jsReact.js.NET FrameworkC#JiraGraphQLEloquentRestAPIDatabasesSQLQueryCybersecurityTypeScriptVueJSGitHubJavaScript LibrariesAJAXJSONJavaScript FrameworksMocha (JavaScript Framework)JestJavaScriptMVCVanilla JavaScriptServer Side JavaScriptMySQLObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)PHPJavaScriptPythonAlgorithmsComputer NetworkingAdobe PhotoshopCascading Style Sheets (CSS)WordPressjQueryHTMLBootstrapHTML5LaravelDjangoVue.jsPhpStormPHP ApplicationsPHPUnitPHP FrameworksEmberfuseJavaC++CGoJavaSEVueVuexNuxt.jsSymfony
Cloud & Delivery
Production-minded infrastructure, observability, and release practices for distributed applications.
Microsoft AzureAWSAmazon Web Services (AWS)Cloud Computing
Education
Formal engineering education backing practical delivery.
Sep 2022 - Jul 2023
Bachelor of Science - BS
University of Sunderland
Aug 2020 - Mar 2022
Higher National Diploma
ICBT Campus
Jan 2001 - Jan 2014
High School
T/R.K.M.Sri Koneswara Hindu College
Contact
Building senior engineering teams, AI workflows, or developer platforms?
I am open to selected global technical-leadership conversations around AI systems, platform architecture, and useful product work.