Executive Biography

I am a PhD-qualified Educational Technology Entrepreneur, Database Architect, and Data Engineering Lead with 15 years of industry-hardened and academic experience spanning advanced database analytics, massive enterprise ETL pipelines, and immersive pedagogical frameworks.

As the Founder and Single Director of AriseEdtech Pvt Ltd, I bridge cognitive science with commercial production engineering. My flagship interactive framework ecosystem, STEM ARise, optimizes cognitive load parameters dynamically in immersive spatial environments utilizing Augmented Reality (AR) and Artificial Intelligence workflows. Designed from the ground up on modern “Privacy-by-Design” frameworks, the ecosystem utilizes serverless, client-side execution structures ensuring student data assets remain completely decentralized and locally fully protected.

My technical innovations within the international EdTech landscape have been formally validated through four Registered Design Approvals from the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO) and recognized globally with the prestigious “Asia’s Best EdTech Startup Award” by ASIA Awards, drawing prominent coverage from international media outlets including the Times of London.

Validated Intellectual Property & Global Awards

UK IPO Registered Designs

Granted by the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office for Smart Learning Platform User Interfaces.

• Design No: 6517021 (Granted)

• Design No: 6517023 (Granted)

• Design No: 6517024 (Granted)

• Design No: 6517025 (Granted)

Asia’s Best EdTech Startup

Conferred by ASIA Awards in association with World Research Congress for groundbreaking research-led software engineering architecture.

View Media Feature (Times of London) ↗

Technical Leadership Track Record

2022 June – Present

R&D Principal Researcher, CEO & Founder

Arise EdTech Pvt Ltd

Architected the end-to-end technical infrastructure, system frameworks, and production roadmaps for research-backed immersive educational platform solutions.
Engineered the proprietary local-first notes telemetry module utilizing serverless paradigms to fully enforce client-side data sovereignty principles.
Filed and successfully secured 4 graphical user interface registrations within the UK Intellectual Property Office.

2022 Feb – 2026 June

ETL Lead Consultant

OneData Solutions

Directed large-scale enterprise relational database systems integrations and high-volume data warehousing orchestration layers.
Optimized mission-critical processing pipelines by refactoring historical system cursors into optimized high-performance, set-based stored procedures.

2011 Jan – 2021 May

Senior Consultant – DWBI Specialist

Virtusa (Including Senior Software Engineer deployment under Singapore EP: Jan 2015 – Dec 2015)

Designed and tuned corporate business intelligence cubes, tracking index fragmentation, query bottlenecks, and enterprise data storage optimizations.

Academic Contributions & Peer Review Panels

Visiting Lecturer: Developed curriculum maps and delivered advanced courses in Advanced Database Engineering for final-year BSc Hons students at the University of Colombo.

Academic Council & Panel Expert: Appointed Technical Expert Panel Member for the New Curriculum Development program at the University of Vavuniya. Maintained continuous peer review duties for international conferences including DMSE, BDBS, and NeCom.

Key Research Publications & Oral Presentations:

[Upcoming Presentation – July 2026]
Oxford Education Research Symposium (University of Oxford, UK):
Invited Oral Presentation: “Beyond the Static Page: Assessing the Impact of Dynamic AR Anchoring and Voice-Integrated Note-Taking on Cognitive Load in Junior Secondary Anatomy.” (Harris Manchester College).

[AIS Dubai – 2017]
Third International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing:
Published Paper: “Medical Image Processing Algorithms for Liver Tumor Diagnosis” in International Journal on Soft Computing (IJSC).

[ICMSS Malaysia – 2014]
4th International Conference on Management and Service Science:
Awarded Best Presentation Award for empirical research: “An Empirical Study on Impact of Cross-Functional Team on Software Development Project Success in Large Scale Software Company in Sri Lanka.”