Sithum Sithara Kariyawasam

DevOps & Cloud Engineer · AI Agent Builder

sithumsitharaa20011008@gmail.com
+94 70 123 3601 · Galle, Sri Lanka
github.com/2001sithum
linkedin.com/in/linnkdinsithum

Profile

Physical Science undergraduate in the Faculty of Applied Sciences at Rajarata University of Sri Lanka and engineer at Nora Software. I design multi-agent systems on Google ADK and Gemini, computer-vision pipelines, and production websites for Sri Lankan businesses — and I deploy them myself on Cloud Run, Compute Engine and self-hosted Coolify.

Achievements

20262nd place — InOrbit. Quintrix ITSO, our final-year research project, placed second among all technology projects.
2025Social Media Head — InFocus Media. Leading social media for the Official Media Unit of Rajarata University, including coverage of the 2025 Sri Lanka University Games.
2026Tourthon 2026 submission — Nora Labs. Agentic tourism platform submitted by Nora Software in the Technology & Smart Tourism category: 11 Google ADK agents, 150 documented API paths.
2025Recognised at the annual award ceremony & AGM. Received an award on stage at the university award ceremony and annual general meeting.
2026Built the AI Network Labs course. Ten lessons, six graded labs and a 40-device campus capstone around cisco-pt-mcp — Muhammad Balawal's open-source MCP server for Packet Tracer.
2025Official media coverage of SLUG 2025. Built the InFocus SLUG site — fixtures, results, leaderboard and notices for the 2025 Sri Lanka University Games hosted by Rajarata — on zero-cost hosting.
202660.0% measured storage reduction. Quintrix beat its >50% proposal target on 17 evaluation videos, with 173 regression tests and a 4.15/5 reviewer rating.

Experience, education & leadership

Undergraduate, BSc in Applied Sciences (Physical Science) — Rajarata University of Sri Lanka · Faculty of Applied Sciences

2022 – present

Final-year research project: Quintrix ITSO (ICT 3411 & COM 3405)
Built bilingual study hubs for Data Communication & Networking (COM 3401)

Team member — upload, segmentation & tiered storage — Team Quintrix · final-year research project

2026

Owned the path from uploaded file to stored tiers, and the 72-hour review queue
Fixed the 3.7× segmentation inflation and the 0/100 concurrency failure

Engineer — Nora Software

2026

Built the Nora Labs agent backend and deployed it to Cloud Run with Vertex AI
Designed the deterministic fallback so no endpoint depends on an LLM

Social Media Head — InFocus Media · Official Media Unit of RUSL

2025 – present

Lead social media strategy for the university's official media unit across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube
Social coverage of SLUG XV 2025, inductions and convocation; built infocusmedia.lk and the SLUG 2025 site

Member — AIESEC in Rajarata University of Sri Lanka

2024 – present

Team sessions and the United Induction programme
Event planning and on-the-day coordination

Freelance web developer — Clients in tourism, health, hospitality and HR

2024 – present

Clean Air, Mahesh Travellers, Keshara Ayurvedic, Ceyra Labs, Super King Star Resort, Intocare
Ships sites clients can edit from a single data file

Selected projects

Quintrix ITSO Engine — Final-year undergraduate research project — Intelligent Tiered Storage Optimization

Python · FastAPI · PyTorch · YOLOv8s (fine-tuned) · YOLO11m · R3D-18 · OpenCV / MOG2

Nora Labs — Autonomous Agentic Tourism & Multi-Agent Planning Engine

Python 3.11+ · FastAPI · Google Gemini 1.5 Pro / Flash · Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) · React 18 · Vite · Node.js

AI Network Labs — A learning ecosystem around cisco-pt-mcp

cisco-pt-mcp (by Muhammad Balawal) · Model Context Protocol · Cisco Packet Tracer · Cisco IOS · OSPF / VLSM / 802.1Q · Claude Code · Cursor · VS Code · Codex

W3DevOps — Interactive DevOps & Cloud Engineering Handbook

HTML5 / CSS3 / JavaScript · Docker & Kubernetes · AWS (EC2, ALB, S3, IAM) · Coolify PaaS · Linux Kernel / Bash · CI/CD Pipelines · Nginx

CinePrompt & News Studio — Automated Video Production Engine

React 18 · Remotion (Programmatic Video Engine) · TypeScript · Google Gemini API · Docker · Node.js · Tailwind CSS

React Content Studio — Deterministic UI Content Engine

React 18 · TypeScript · Babel AST Parser · Node.js · Express · Vite · Docker

Live work

Mahesh Travellers (mahesh-drab.vercel.app) · Achintha Banuka Photography (achintha.vercel.app) · InFocus Media (infocusmedia.lk) · InFocus SLUG 2025 (infocusslug2025.free.nf) · Ceyra Labs (www.ceyralabs.com)

Skills

Cloud & DevOps: Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Run, Compute Engine, Cloud Build, Artifact Registry, AWS EC2 / S3 / VPC / IAM, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Coolify, Nginx, Linux

AI & Data: Google ADK, Gemini / Vertex AI, Model Context Protocol, PyTorch, OpenCV, YOLOv8, Scikit-Learn, Pandas

Backend: Python, FastAPI, Flask, Node.js, Express, Prisma, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, WebSockets

Frontend: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Vite, TanStack Start, Tailwind CSS, Framer Motion, Remotion, SVG / Canvas