{"$schema":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsonresume/resume-schema/v1.0.0/schema.json","basics":{"name":"Akila Nilupul","label":"Software Engineer (AI & Full-Stack)","email":"akilanilupul3@gmail.com","phone":"+94 76 747 9233","url":"https://akila-portfolio.vercel.app","image":"https://akila-portfolio.vercel.app/hero-portrait.png","summary":"Software engineer who takes client products from brief to production, covering frontend, backend and deployment, and who cares about what happens after launch. Built Zonova, a multi-vendor marketplace that won two national awards at BestWeb.lk 2026 in its first year, shipped as web and Android from one React and TypeScript codebase. Half a dozen sites live on commercial domains across education, tourism, photography and corporate clients, on Next.js and Astro/Cloudflare Workers. Picks up whatever a project needs, including Flutter, Laravel and Python on a UN climate-modelling programme spanning Sri Lanka, Costa Rica and Peru. Also, a published researcher of AI-Powered Dental Prosthetic and Recommendation System (EICON 2026, indexing pending currently), which pairs automated panoramic-radiograph analysis with an explainable engine that ranks patient-specific prosthetic treatments, an integration rarely addressed in the literature.","location":{"city":"Galle","countryCode":"LK"},"profiles":[{"network":"GitHub","username":"akila-ncmd","url":"https://github.com/akila-ncmd"},{"network":"LinkedIn","username":"akilanilupul","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/akilanilupul"}]},"work":[{"name":"Zonova Tech","position":"Software Engineer (AI & Full-Stack)","location":"Sri Lanka","startDate":"2026-03-01","summary":"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.","highlights":["Designed and shipped the platform's AI layer. Google Gemini sits behind a server-side proxy with multi-key failover pooling and request logging, powering image generation, photo-match against live shop inventory, a canvas design studio and virtual try-on.","Implemented passkey (WebAuthn) and native biometric authentication, plus a three-tier role and permission system covering platform admins, shop owners and shop staff.","Built vendor and admin dashboards covering real-time order feeds, catalogue and inventory management, quotation and bidding inboxes, and analytics with date-range filtering.","Shipped the Android app from the same codebase via Capacitor, with push notifications, camera and native share, alongside a PWA with SEO prerendering.","Localised the platform across English, Sinhala and Tamil, with local payment (PayHere) and branch-based delivery.","Established the testing baseline, covering unit and component tests (Vitest, Testing Library), API tests (Supertest), Firestore security-rules tests against the emulator, and Playwright end-to-end coverage.","Hardened the production deployment with Content Security Policy, HSTS preload, and strict frame-ancestor and permissions policies."]},{"name":"UN Environment Programme Copenhagen Climate Centre","position":"Technical Associate, SISEPUEDE","location":"Remote / Sri Lanka","startDate":"2026-02-01","summary":"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.","highlights":["Write and maintain Python for the SISEPUEDE integrated assessment framework across nine analysis notebooks and two reusable modules, run emissions and energy transformation scenarios, and package the deliverables.","Prepare and validate underlying datasets, and participate in programme workshops and technical review sessions."]},{"name":"Zonova Tech","position":"Associate Software Engineer","location":"Sri Lanka","startDate":"2025-10-01","endDate":"2026-02-28","summary":"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.","highlights":["Engineered the SEO layer on both sites, covering structured data, schema markup, generated sitemaps and semantic metadata, with WhatsApp enquiry routing and transactional email integrated end to end.","Contributed storefront and vendor dashboard features to the Zonova marketplace."]},{"name":"Zonova Tech","position":"Software Engineering Intern","location":"Sri Lanka","startDate":"2025-07-01","endDate":"2025-09-30","summary":"Shipped React and TypeScript features into live client projects, including the Edu Gate Consultancy and Gimhani Tours builds.","highlights":[]}],"education":[{"institution":"London Metropolitan University","area":"BEng (Hons) Software Engineering (Top-Up)","studyType":"Bachelor","startDate":"2025-02-01","endDate":"2025-12-31","score":"Second Class Honours, Upper Division (2:1)"},{"institution":"ESOFT Metro Campus","area":"BTEC Level 5 HND in Computing (Software Engineering)","studyType":"Diploma","startDate":"2023-10-01","endDate":"2024-11-30","score":"Merit"}],"certificates":[{"name":"Certificate in Information Technology (CIT)","date":"2023-11-30","issuer":"Pearson, UK ESOFT Metro Campus"},{"name":"Certificate in English (CIE)","date":"2023-11-30","issuer":"Pearson, UK ESOFT Metro Campus"},{"name":"Diploma in Information Technology (DITEC)","date":"2023-07-31","issuer":"Pearson, UK ESOFT Metro Campus","summary":"Merit"},{"name":"Diploma in English (DIE)","date":"2023-02-28","issuer":"Pearson, UK ESOFT Metro Campus","summary":"Distinction"}],"awards":[{"title":"Certificate of Appreciation","date":"2026-08-12","awarder":"BestWeb.LK, LK Domain Registry","summary":"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."},{"title":"Best Micro Enterprises Website","date":"2026","awarder":"BestWeb.lk, LK Domain Registry","summary":"Gold Winner, awarded to zonova.lk in its first year of entry."},{"title":"Most Popular Micro Enterprises Website","date":"2026","awarder":"BestWeb.lk, LK Domain Registry","summary":"Winner, decided by public vote, awarded to zonova.lk in the same year."},{"title":"Presidential Award for Best Dancing Team of the Year","date":"2025","awarder":"Kandy Esala Perahera","summary":"Awarded to the Kandyan Ves dancing team, presented by the President of Sri Lanka."},{"title":"Presidential Award for Best Emerging Dancing Team of the Year","date":"2024","awarder":"Kandy Esala Perahera","summary":"Awarded to the Kandyan Ves dancing team, presented by the President of Sri Lanka."}],"publications":[{"name":"AI-Powered Dental Prosthetic and Recommendation System","publisher":"Proceedings of the ESOFT International Conference (EICON) 2026, ESU, Kandy, Sri Lanka, pp. 36–43. ISSN 3121-5122. ISBN 978-624-6610-01-2","releaseDate":"2026-08-30","url":"https://akila-portfolio.vercel.app/work#publication","summary":"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."}],"skills":[{"name":"Languages","keywords":["TypeScript","JavaScript","Python","C#","Dart","PHP","SQL","HTML","CSS"]},{"name":"Frontend","keywords":["React","Next.js","Astro","Tailwind CSS","Framer Motion","GSAP","Vue.js","Three.js"]},{"name":"Backend","keywords":["Node.js",".NET","Express","FastAPI","Flask","Django","Laravel","REST API design"]},{"name":"Data","keywords":["Firestore","MongoDB","MySQL","SQL","SQLite"]},{"name":"Cloud & Mobile","keywords":["Firebase","Cloudflare Workers","Cloudflare R2","Vercel","Azure","Flutter","Capacitor (Android)"]},{"name":"AI/ML & DevOps","keywords":["Google Gemini","Ultralytics YOLO","Docker","AWS","OpenCV","PyTorch","Computer vision","NLP"]},{"name":"Modelling & Data","keywords":["pandas","NumPy","Matplotlib","seaborn","Jupyter","Tableau","Integrated assessment modelling","Emissions & energy scenario analysis"]},{"name":"Testing & Quality","keywords":["Playwright","Vitest","Testing Library","Supertest","PHPUnit","Lighthouse"]},{"name":"Practices","keywords":["Git & code review","WebAuthn / passkeys","CSP & HSTS","Internationalisation","SEO","PWA"]}],"projects":[{"name":"Zonova","description":"A four-vertical marketplace that won two national awards in its first year.","highlights":["Best Micro Enterprises Website at BestWeb.lk 2026, Gold Winner.","Most Popular Micro Enterprises Website at BestWeb.lk 2026, Winner by public vote.","Zero authorisation defects found in review. The three-tier permission model is enforced in Firestore rules and covered by emulator tests.","Live across web, PWA and Android from a single codebase, in three languages."],"keywords":["React 19","TypeScript","Firebase","Google Gemini","Capacitor","Vite"],"url":"https://zonova.lk","roles":["Software Engineer"],"entity":"WEB / AI COMMERCE","type":"application"},{"name":"Zonova Group","description":"Corporate site for a six-venture holding company.","highlights":[],"keywords":["Astro","Cloudflare Workers","GSAP","Lenis","TypeScript"],"url":"https://main.zonova.lk","roles":["Engineer"],"entity":"WEB / CORPORATE","type":"application"},{"name":"Zonova Tech","description":"Agency site with a content-collection blog and an R2-backed careers flow.","highlights":[],"keywords":["Astro","Cloudflare Workers","Cloudflare R2","GSAP","RSS"],"url":"https://tech.zonova.lk","roles":["Engineer"],"entity":"WEB / AGENCY","type":"application"},{"name":"Zonova Lens","description":"A photography studio site with a camera-to-gallery image pipeline.","highlights":["A shoot goes from camera to published gallery without a manual export step.","Responsive formats and contact sheets generated in a single pass."],"keywords":["Astro","Cloudflare Workers","Sharp","Node.js"],"url":"https://lens.zonova.lk","roles":["Engineer"],"entity":"WEB / PHOTOGRAPHY","type":"application"},{"name":"Edu Gate Consultancy","description":"Study-abroad consultancy platform serving a global applicant base.","highlights":[],"keywords":["Next.js","TypeScript","Tailwind CSS","Framer Motion"],"url":"https://www.edugateconsultancy.com/","roles":["Engineer"],"entity":"WEB / EDUCATION","type":"application"},{"name":"Gimhani Tours","description":"Marketing site for a local tour guide, with WhatsApp enquiry routing.","highlights":["14 routes, every one readable in eight languages from a single dictionary, exported as static HTML with a sitemap that ranks the booking path above the policy pages.","A five-step wizard that hands the guide a dated, sized, routed enquiry inside WhatsApp, without the site transmitting anything itself.","198 photographs — 109 from tours with guests, 89 across 16 destinations — served as WebP behind a native dialog lightbox, which takes its focus trap, inert background and Esc-to-close from the platform rather than from hand-written JavaScript.","A deploy cut from 211 MB to 122 MB by the image pass alone, and a hero that now plays in Firefox and on machines without HEVC decode, where the previous file showed a still or a black rectangle.","Accessibility handled where it is usually skipped: a pause control on the autoplaying hero, reduced-motion off switches in every stylesheet, endonyms in the language picker, and a lang attribute that follows the chosen language.","Guest reviews left in the words their authors wrote: the review text is identical across all eight locale blocks, so switching language translates the interface around a testimonial without ever re-voicing 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ten-question assessment that returns a typed result — a personality label, three scored career matches with reasons, three courses, scholarships, study tips and next steps — parsed from the model’s JSON, with a deterministic fallback when that parse fails.","Voice in both directions through the browser’s own speech APIs, on a 939-line front end with no framework and no build step.","The whole thing ships as one Docker image running uvicorn as a non-root user, which is what makes a free Space a viable home for it."],"keywords":["Python","FastAPI","Gemini","ChromaDB","SQLAlchemy"],"url":"https://aknilupul-aura-acadamic-agent.hf.space/","roles":["Engineer"],"entity":"AI / CONVERSATIONAL","type":"application"},{"name":"Dental AI Pro","description":"Computer vision for dental X-rays, from detection to a costed care plan.","highlights":["Published after peer review in the Proceedings of the ESOFT International Conference (EICON) 2026, pp. 36–43, and presented orally as paper FPC10 at ESU 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Both reviewers returned major revision; the resubmission answered every comment point by point.","mAP@0.5 0.581 with precision 0.629 and recall 0.584, measured on the 1,501-image held-out test split of a 16,995-radiograph dataset across ten condition classes.","A nine-treatment knowledge base returning the top five ranked candidates, each with a written rationale naming the detection that triggered it, an indicative cost range and a success-rate estimate.","A three-tier deployment — Next.js client, FastAPI inference service, MongoDB, and a separate Flask reporting service that compiles the annotated radiograph, the detected conditions and the ranked plan into a PDF for clinical handover."],"keywords":["Python","FastAPI","Flask","Ultralytics YOLO","OpenCV","MongoDB","Next.js"],"url":"https://aknilupul-dentalai-platform.hf.space/","roles":["Researcher & engineer"],"entity":"AI / HEALTHCARE","type":"application"},{"name":"Diamond Shine","description":"A multi-branch hotel reservation system, built around the rules a front desk actually runs on.","highlights":["58 tests passing with 156 assertions, covering the occupancy cap, the four-weeks-becomes-one-month rewrite, refusal when no rooms remain, back-to-back stays not conflicting, cancellation freeing inventory, Luhn rejection, per-branch report isolation, and the nightly command being idempotent.","Double-booking closed across all five booking paths by a single availability service.","Full-PAN storage removed, and the historic rows masked by migration."],"keywords":["Laravel 10","PHP 8.1","MySQL","Blade","three.js","PHPUnit"],"url":"https://github.com/akila-ncmd/Hotel-System","roles":["Engineer"],"entity":"WEB / HOSPITALITY SYSTEMS","type":"application"},{"name":"EatBest","description":"A neo-brutalist restaurant site with a WebGL scene on the 404.","highlights":["Five routes and a 404, with all copy and imagery driven from a single 129-line content module typed by 17 interfaces.","20 components across roughly 3,400 lines of TypeScript, with one scroll primitive covering every pinned transition on the site.","A 404 built from extruded Text3D digits, a procedurally assembled donut carrying 110 surface-aligned sprinkles, and 1,200 instanced particles — all code-split away from the rest of the site.","Layout defects found and fixed on real viewports rather than in the design: a hero that clipped its own badge under the fixed header at h-screen, and a desktop nav that clipped the order button until it was held back to the lg breakpoint."],"keywords":["Next.js 16","React 19","Tailwind CSS v4","Framer Motion","React Three Fiber","TypeScript"],"url":"https://restaurant-website-nu-nine.vercel.app","roles":["Engineer"],"entity":"WEB / RESTAURANT","type":"application"},{"name":"EVC","description":"A two-sided music and video streaming app, designed first and then built in Flutter.","highlights":["26 screens across both sides of the marketplace, running from one codebase on Android and on the web.","59 tests passing: a golden render of every screen, behaviour coverage of the state layer, and a WCAG audit across ten screens.","Three accessibility defects found in the original design and fixed in the tokens and shared components, then locked down by tests.","6,600 lines of Dart across 47 files, with the catalogue behind a repository interface that no screen depends on."],"keywords":["Flutter","Dart","Riverpod","go_router","just_audio","Adobe XD"],"url":"https://evc-mobile-app.vercel.app","roles":["Designer & engineer"],"entity":"MOBILE / STREAMING","type":"application"},{"name":"Avengers: Doomsday","description":"A concept teaser that hands the projector to the scrollbar.","highlights":["Two 169-frame sequences, 338 frames in total, scrubbing against scroll with no gaps, driven by one normalised progress value per section.","3,063 lines of TypeScript across 27 files, the heaviest single component being the custom HUD scrollbar at 448.","An accent handover that interpolates rather than cuts, with no duplicated components behind it.","Two production defects found and fixed while deploying it: share cards whose metadataBase still pointed at localhost, and a grain overlay loaded from a third-party demo host that had started returning 404, so the effect had been silently absent in production."],"keywords":["Next.js 16","React 19","Tailwind CSS v4","Framer Motion","React Three Fiber","Lenis","TypeScript"],"url":"https://iron-man-website-flame.vercel.app","roles":["Designer and engineer"],"entity":"DESIGN / CONCEPT SITE","type":"application"}],"meta":{"canonical":"https://akila-portfolio.vercel.app/resume.json","version":"1.0.0","lastModified":"2026-09-20T07:43:31.328Z"}}