Associate Technical Lead at 99x · Colombo, Sri Lanka

Srilal Siriwardhane

I turn language models into software teams can ship.

Engineering lead on GenAI work at 99x, previously on its Research Team. On my own time I build developer tools and research how to run transformer models at the edge.

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01 Selected work

Things I made because I wanted them to exist.

Beta, v0.4.0 · Author and maintainer

MeiliOps

A desktop app for running and managing Meilisearch: browse documents, tune settings, watch tasks and spin up local instances, without living in curl.

Tauri 2
Rust
SolidJS
TypeScript

Forkpath

Change one moment in history and watch the consequences branch out. An AI writer maps what happens next, event by event, across parallel storylines, and puts a likelihood on every fork.

TypeScript
React 19
React Flow
Express
Zod

GMK87 Control

A native Windows app for the Zuoya GMK87 keyboard: lighting, keymap remapping and screen image uploads, talking to the board directly over USB HID.

C#
.NET 10
WinUI 3
USB HID

Published, active · Author

Sinhala Phonetic Orthography

A research study of how Sinhala words are actually built: which letter combinations are valid, which are not, and why, with sources for every rule.

Python
TypeScript
npm

Active · Core contributor

Akshara

Akshara is an open-source Sinhala keyboard and input method for macOS, Windows, Android and iOS, with Wijesekara, Singlish phonetic and Smart Phonetic layouts.

Swift
Objective-C
Kotlin
C++
WinUI 3

Papers, data and one thesis.

2026MSc thesis
Hardware-Aware Optimization of a Transformer-Based Embedding Model for Edge Inference
MSc Computer Science, University of Moratuwa
2026Dataset and study
Sinhala Phonetic Orthography: a sourced rule set for Sinhala word construction and phonetic romanization
Zenodo, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23244126
2023Award
OptiMax AI: A Natural Language Based Framework for Context-Aware Workflow Optimization
NBQSA 2023, Research and Development Merit Award

03 About

Hello. I'm Srilal.

I lead engineering work at 99x in Colombo, where I spend most of my time turning large language models into software that enterprises can actually ship and run.

Before that I spent three years on the 99x Research Team prototyping practical GenAI systems. Outside work I build developer tools, mostly because I want them to exist.

I am finishing an MSc in Computer Science at the University of Moratuwa, on making transformer embedding models run well on edge hardware.

Experience

99x · Colombo
1. Associate Technical LeadFeb 2026 to now
  Leading delivery and implementation, mentoring engineers, and applying LLMs, generative AI and cloud-native architecture to client problems.
2. Senior Software Engineer, Research TeamFeb 2024 to Feb 2026
  Practical applications of LLMs and generative AI in enterprise settings, from research prototypes to production.
3. Software Engineer, Research TeamFeb 2023 to Feb 2024
  Joined the research team: agents, retrieval and workflow automation on top of LLMs.
4. Associate Software EngineerApr 2022 to Feb 2023
Codezilla · Colombo
1. Contract Software EngineerJan 2021 to Feb 2022
  Client projects across Flutter, Laravel and Vue while still at university.

Education

MSc Computer Science
University of Moratuwa, 2024 to 2026
BSc (Hons) Computer Science
NSBM Green University, 2019 to 2022

Toolbox

genai: LLMsLangGraphLangChainAgentsRAGEmbeddings
languages: TypeScriptC#PythonRustKotlinSwiftDart
frontend: SolidJSAstroVueNuxt
apps: TauriFlutterNative IMEs
backend: .NETNode.jsLaravel
infra: DockerGitHub ActionsTerraformAnsible

Certifications

Linux Systems and DevOps Engineering
GitHub Foundations
Crash Course on Python
Configuration Management and the Cloud
Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation
Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador

04 Writing

Notes from Medium.

All posts on Medium

05 Contact

Say hello.

Questions about something I built, a collaboration, or just to talk shop. Email is best.

srilalsachintha@gmail.com