// ARCHIVE
// WHO I AM
Software Engineer in Galle, Sri Lanka. I build production systems end to end, and I can tell you what I rejected on the way to each one.
Most of what I know came from shipping things that had to keep working. An 86,000-line marketplace across four retail verticals and three languages, a computer-vision pipeline that had to generalise across capture conditions, and client platforms running on commercial domains where a broken build is somebody else's revenue.
I work across the whole stack because the interesting problems sit between the layers. A model is only useful behind a service that does not leak its keys, and a design system is only real once somebody has had to implement it.
Before any of that, I spent eight years on the Kandyan Ves stage. Two Presidential Awards with the team, and a very large number of rehearsals. Precision is a team sport, and you rehearse until it's invisible.
// TRAJECTORY
Zonova Tech · Sri Lanka
Engineer on Zonova (zonova.lk), a multi-vendor marketplace across four retail verticals (flowers, cakes, clothing and gifts) unified behind one cart, checkout, search and wishlist.
UN Environment Programme Copenhagen Climate Centre · Remote / Sri Lanka
Technical contributor to the Integrated Assessment for Article 6 (IAA6) programme, covering emissions and mitigation modelling for Sri Lanka, Costa Rica and Peru under the Paris Agreement.
Zonova Tech · Sri Lanka
Built and shipped client web platforms in Next.js and TypeScript, including a study-abroad consultancy platform and a tour operator booking site, both live on commercial domains.
Zonova Tech · Sri Lanka
Shipped React and TypeScript features into live client projects, including the Edu Gate Consultancy and Gimhani Tours builds.
// CAPABILITY INDEX
// THE RECORD
Everything below is independently checkable. The BestWeb.lk results are published by the LK Domain Registry, and the Global Business Excellence Awards are verified by the London Business Consultancy — the certificate is reproduced in full with the date and signatures on it, and the awards are shown with their physical objects and ceremony recordings.
BestWeb.LK, LK Domain Registry
“This certificate is awarded to Akila Nilupul for development of the website zonova.lk.”
Presented at the BestWeb.LK Awards Ceremony 2026 in Colombo, to the developers behind the winning websites. zonova.lk won two of them.
Gold Winner · Judged category, 2026
“Awarded to Zonova Pvt Ltd for their website www.zonova.lk”
I built the winning site end to end — storefront, vendor dashboard, and the services behind both.
Winner · Decided by public vote, 2026
“Awarded to Zonova Pvt Ltd for their website www.zonova.lk”
The same site, voted for by the public — the build people chose to keep using.
Winner · Global Business Excellence Awards, 2026
“Winner — Best Website Awards, presented to Zonova Pvt Ltd for Best Gifting Website www.zonova.lk”
I built the four-vertical marketplace and custom gifting workflow behind the win, unified with real-time order tracking.
Nilupul H.M., Fonseka N., Akalanka A.U. · School of Computing, ESOFT Metro Campus, Galle, Sri Lanka
First author & sole developer; the two co-authors supervised the project at ESOFT Metro Campus.
Proceedings of the ESOFT International Conference (EICON) 2026, ESU, Kandy, Sri Lanka, pp. 36–43 · ISSN 3121-5122 · ISBN 978-624-6610-01-2 · Open Access · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23612738
An integrated, explainable web-based decision-support prototype that pairs automated panoramic-radiograph analysis with structured patient data to produce ranked prosthetic treatment recommendations. A fine-tuned YOLOv8-Nano detector reads ten classes of dental condition; a hybrid rule-based and heuristic scoring engine over a nine-treatment knowledge base ranks candidates by clinical, demographic and budget factors and returns the top five with rationales, indicative costs and success-rate estimates, plus a downloadable clinical-handover report.
Commercial dental AI reads radiographs and marks pathology. It does not say what to do about it for this particular patient. The contribution here is not detection accuracy — it is the integration: a working, inspectable pipeline where every ranked recommendation traces back to the finding that triggered it.
2 reviewers · Major revision · revised 18 July 2026 · accepted 31 July 2026
Both reviewers returned major revision. The resubmission expanded the recommendation engine's scoring in Methods, added Discussion paragraphs on error propagation and patient safety and on the ethical, regulatory and medico-legal position, widened the comparison with published prosthodontics AI, and restructured Future Work around clinical and usability evaluation.
2,990 words · 240-word structured abstract · 17 Vancouver references
YOLOv8-Nano (~3.01M parameters), fine-tuned from COCO-pretrained yolov8n.pt on 16,995 panoramic radiographs across 10 condition classes. Dental X-Ray Panoramic v3, CC BY 4.0.
| Evaluation | Split | Precision | Recall | mAP@0.5 | mAP@0.5:0.95 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported in the published paperEICON 2026 manuscript, Table 1 | validation1,500 images | 0.460 | 0.480 | 0.430 | 0.220 |
| Measured on the shipped checkpointevaluate_model.py → model_metrics.json, 25 August 2026, weights sha256 201a9933735b… | held-out test1,501 images | 0.629 | 0.584 | 0.581 | 0.298 |
The paper is fixed and reports the validation split it was written against; the test row is the shipped checkpoint on images it never saw, recorded with its weights digest.
London Metropolitan University · United Kingdom
Second Class Honours, Upper Division (2:1)
Convocation Photos in Gallery →Conferred at ESU Graduation 2026 in Colombo. Includes final-year honours dissertation and peer-reviewed computer-vision research paper published at EICON 2026.
Degree Conferment
ESU Graduation 2026
ESOFT Metro Campus · Pearson, UK
Merit
Certificate in Information Technology (CIT)
ESOFT Metro Campus, Jul 2022 to Nov 2023
Certificate in English (CIE)
ESOFT Metro Campus, Jul 2022 to Nov 2023
Diploma in Information Technology (DITEC)
ESOFT Metro Campus, Jul 2022 to Jul 2023 · Merit
Diploma in English (DIE)
ESOFT Metro Campus, Jul 2022 to Feb 2023 · Distinction
Secondary education at Mahinda College, Galle, Sri Lanka.
Kandy Esala Perahera. Awarded to the Kandyan Ves dancing team, presented by the President of Sri Lanka.
Kandy Esala Perahera. Awarded to the Kandyan Ves dancing team, presented by the President of Sri Lanka.
// PAPER COPY
Everything on this page, on two pages of A4. The PDF and the machine-readable version below are the same record, so they cannot drift apart from what you have just read.
Mr. Sameera Rukshan
Director & CTO, Zonova (Pvt) Ltd · formerly Tech Lead, Virtusa
Contact details on request
Mr. Pasan Weththasinghe
Centre Manager, ESOFT Metro Campus · Galle
Contact details on request
// ON THE RECORD
Award ceremonies, the conference, the programme workshops and eight years of Ves. The parts of the record a screenshot cannot carry.
Three major awards for Zonova: Best Gifting Website in Sri Lanka at the Global Business Excellence Awards 2026, Gold for Best Micro Enterprises Website and Winner for Most Popular at BestWeb.lk 2026, plus the LK Domain Registry's Certificate of Appreciation.
Conferment of the BEng (Hons) in Software Engineering, awarded by London Metropolitan University at the ESU Graduation 2026 ceremony in Colombo.
