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Cofounder, The Alpha Nova Inc.
A software and applied AI company working across AI, IoT, automation, health-tech, safety-tech, and industrial systems.
Canada 🇨🇦
Software Developer, Cofounder & AI / IoT Builder
I build applied AI, autonomous systems, mental health software, industrial IoT, and mobile products, from research prototypes to shipped apps.
“Ship the thing. Then make it useful to someone who isn't you.”
01 · About
I am a software developer and cofounder originally from Sri Lanka, now based in Canada. I build software end to end: on-device AI, autonomous agents, clinical-grade mobile apps, industrial telemetry systems, and the web tooling around them.
Through The Alpha Nova Inc., I work on applied AI, IoT, automation, health-tech, and industrial software. A large part of my work is the COGITO family of mental health apps built with the clinical neuropsychology team at UKE Hamburg, alongside autonomy and perception work for drones and mining-grade industrial systems.
I also teach part-time at Cambrian College and mentor students and first-time builders through hackathons and developer clubs.
My work sits at the intersection of software engineering, applied AI, and practical innovation.
02 · Highlights
A software and applied AI company working across AI, IoT, automation, health-tech, safety-tech, and industrial systems.
Building and shipping the COGITO mental health apps with the UKE Hamburg clinical neuropsychology team: the main app, COGITO KIDS, COGITO OBERBERG, and Glücklich.
Fully autonomous UAV agents for GPS-denied, communication-denied operation, plus a win at the Côté Gold Drone Innovation Challenge.
Shipping complete platforms rather than pieces: mobile apps, backend APIs, and admin dashboards, taken from first commit to the App Store and Play Store.
Teaching applied technology, IoT, and software development to the next generation of builders.
Won and organized multiple hackathons across AI, drone autonomy, supply chains, biotech, and mining innovation.
03 · Work
A software and applied AI company building real-world technology for businesses, researchers, and clinical teams, across AI, IoT, industrial software, health-tech, and web & mobile.
A free mental health self-help app built with the clinical neuropsychology team at UKE Hamburg: 19 languages, 240,000+ downloads, and backed by multiple scientific studies. I work on the app and its adaptation, including localization for communities in Sri Lanka with Tamil and Sinhala support.
A Flutter prototype of a weekly mental-wellbeing check-in guided by an animated character that recommends exercises. Runs fully on-device and offline: no network calls, no accounts, no data leaving the phone. Includes on-device TTS narration, golden-tested UI, and a light/dark design system.
A mental health companion app for children, built with Ionic + Angular: interactive exercises, progress tracking, and customizable content. Ships with a companion audio site of 15 narrated exercise Hörproben.
Clinic-branded builds of the COGITO platform for the Oberberg clinic group, plus Glücklich, a companion wellbeing app. Shared Ionic + Angular codebase with per-deployment theming, content, and release pipelines.
A fully autonomous agent for communication-denied UAV operations, built for the CAF Red Team Hackathon. It ingests live video and telemetry, interprets embedded visual puzzles with a dual-speed perception pipeline (fast CV loop plus slower reasoning loop), and issues joystick control commands with zero human intervention and no GPS. Ships with its own mock simulator, a black-box recorder, and a Next.js mission-control dashboard.
Winning entry in the Côté Gold Drone Innovation Challenge, applying drone sensing and automation to real mine-site operational problems.
An autonomy course where a drone flies a branching route, reading visual clues at each junction (arrow colour, then object count) to pick turns and reach the correct target. Built the perception and decision logic that solves the course without hard-coded paths.
A provenance system for verifying “Made in Canada” and “Product of Canada” claims in the drone supply chain. Every supplier contribution is an Ed25519-signed attestation referencing its upstream attestations, forming a tamper-evident DAG from raw materials to finished product. The system walks the chain, verifies every signature, computes Canadian content percentages per Competition Bureau rules, and flags anomalies. Third place, Red Team DefTech Verified Canadian Supply Chains Hackathon, Ottawa.
A full transportation platform: a React Native driver app, a rider-facing mobile app, a Node.js / Express / MongoDB backend API, and a React + Vite + Tailwind admin dashboard for dispatch and operations.
04 · Experience
05 · Recognition