Chathushka Navod, software engineer
Ibuild,shipandrunproductionsoftware.
Final-year software engineering undergraduate working across backend systems, DevOps and applied AI in Sri Lanka.
Selected work
May 2026 - Present
Kodernet POS
Retail ERP running live in Sri Lankan shops. An offline-first desktop app with 44 database tables and 25+ modules, now being rebuilt as a cloud monorepo.
- Electron
- React 19
- SQLite
- Supabase
- Turborepo
- Docker
Jun 2026 - Present
Second Brain
A self-hosted multi-agent AI platform running in production on a 1 vCPU, 1 GB VPS, with per-service memory caps and a CI/CD pipeline that builds off the server.
- LangGraph
- FastMCP
- FastAPI
- Next.js
- PostgreSQL
- systemd
Jun 2026 - Jul 2026
Kodernet License Server
Licensing, activation and remote control for deployed POS installations. Commands queue in Postgres and reach each device on its next heartbeat.
- Next.js 16
- TypeScript
- Neon PostgreSQL
- Vercel
Mar 2025 - Jun 2025
Cravely
A microservices food delivery platform. I led a team of four across five services behind a health-checked API gateway.
- Node.js
- Express
- MongoDB
- Docker
- Stripe
- React
Odessa
A jewellery e-commerce platform in Next.js and TypeScript, deployed and domain-configured on Nginx.
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Nginx
Earlier projects
Personal Portfolio
A personal portfolio website built with React and Tailwind CSS to showcase my skills, projects, and contact information.
E-Commerce Platform
An e-commerce web application developed using MERN and Redux, featuring a comprehensive product catalog, shopping cart, and checkout system.
Online POS System
A web-based point of sale system for small businesses, built with PHP, MySql, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It includes inventory management, sales tracking, and reporting features.
Portfolio Website
A personal portfolio website built with Next.js and Tailwind CSS to showcase my skills, projects, and contact information.
VirtualR React
An immersive virtual reality web application built with React, featuring modular architecture and cross-platform VR support.
ToDo List App
UpTodo is an Android application designed to help users manage their daily tasks efficiently by offering a combination of task management, timers, and reminders.
Solo Trekkers App
A modern personal expense tracking app designed as part of the UI/UX component for the second exam of the Mobile Application Development Module in Year 2, Semester 2.
Restaurant Landing Page
A responsive landing page for a fictional restaurant, built with React and Framer Motion. It features a clean and elegant design with smooth animations.
National AI Expo 2026 finalist
SinAI, a native Sinhala AI platform for journalism
Four LLM-powered writing tools for Sinhala newsrooms, built on fine-tuned SinLlama (Llama-3-8B) LoRA adapters and shipped as a web app, a Chrome extension and a Google Docs add-on.
One of the final 10 teams at the AI Hackathon, National AI Expo, Sri Lanka AI Week 2026.
With thanks to Mobitel, hSenid Mobile Solutions, SLIIT, our supervisors and mentors.
- Project
- R26-SE-037, SLIIT
- Team
- Four engineers
- Stack
- FastAPI, React, Supabase
- My role
- I built the model-benchmarking dashboard, diagnosed inference-decoding defects in the summarisation pipeline, implemented Google Sign-In and co-authored the research paper.
Bio
Istartedinasailmaker’sworkshop,thenmovedintosoftware.TodayIownsystemsinproduction:licensingandfleetcontrolforcommercialPOSinstallations,amulti-agentAIplatform,andthepipelinesthatshipthem.
- 44
- database tables in the live Kodernet POS
- 25+
- modules shipped to retail businesses
- 5
- microservices in the Cravely platform I led
- Top 10
- finalist teams at the National AI Expo 2026 with SinAI
Outside of work I explore new technology, sharpen my server management skills and keep a few personal projects running.
Skills
Languages
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Python
- Java
- PHP
- Kotlin
- Dart
- SQL
Backend
- Node.js
- Express
- FastAPI
- Prisma ORM
- Spring Boot
- REST API design
- JWT auth
- RBAC
- Microservices
Frontend
- React 19
- Next.js
- Redux Toolkit
- RTK Query
- Tailwind CSS
- Vite
- Electron
- Flutter
DevOps and infrastructure
- Docker Compose
- GitHub Actions
- Nginx
- Caddy
- systemd
- Linux VPS
- Turborepo and pnpm
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Vercel
Databases
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- MySQL
- SQLite
- Supabase
- Neon
AI and automation
- LangGraph
- LangChain
- MCP and FastMCP
- Prompt engineering
- LoRA fine-tuning
- n8n
Also: Git and pull request review, Jest, Postman, OpenAPI, multi-tenant and offline-first architecture, telemetry and observability, Agile teamwork.
Work Experience
Dec 2024 - Jun 2025
Full Stack Developer Intern
Webminds, Malabe
- Built and maintained production web applications with the MERN stack, Next.js and TypeScript alongside a delivery team.
- Wrote and maintained Jest test suites, raising confidence across feature branches and reducing regressions at release.
- Owned deployments, server configuration and continuous integration, bridging development and operations.
May 2021 - Oct 2022
Sail Craft Technician
North Sails, Biyagama
- Inspected and maintained equipment and controlled inventory in a precision manufacturing environment before moving into software.
Additional delivery
- zorscode.com, a Next.js portfolio with SSR, SSG and SEO, self-hosted end to end on a private VPS
- A Telegram VPN sales bot in Python on a Linux VPS
- A multi-store e-commerce platform in Next.js, Django and PostgreSQL
- Native Android apps in Kotlin and cross-platform Flutter apps
Education
2022 - PresentFinal year
BSc (Hons) Information Technology, specialised in Software Engineering
SLIIT, Malabe
Coursework includes object-oriented programming, database systems, web application development with the MERN stack and operating systems.
2021
Diploma in English Language
Esoft Metro Campus
2017 - 2020
G.C.E. Advanced Level, Engineering Technology stream
Henegama Central College
Let’s Connect
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Delgoda, Sri Lanka