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Events · in the arena

Where I show up.

The competitions I've been tested in and the events I've shown up for - hackathons, algorithm contests, and the wider tech community.

01 - Proving ground

Tested in competition.

2nd Runner-Up2025

Model X

IEEE Computational Intelligence Society

Solo competitor in a machine-learning modelling challenge.

Semi-finalist2026

SLIoT Challenge

University of Moratuwa

Sri Lanka's national IoT innovation challenge.

Finalist · 6th2025

SLIITXtreme 4.0

IEEE Computer Society, SLIIT

24-hour hackathon - 6th on the live leaderboard, top five teams tied on score.

Finalist · 11th/1702025

CodeFest Algothon

Faculty of Computing, SLIIT

National algorithmic contest - 11th of ~170 teams across a quiz and a logistics shortest-path round.

Semi-finalist2026

CodeSprint 11

IEEE Student Branch, IIT

Inter-university startup battle - reached the semi-finals.

Competing now2026

Agentrix 2026

University of Ruhuna

Inter-university competition - currently underway.

02 - In the community

Out in the community.

SLIITXtreme 4.0 - event
FinalistOct 2025

SLIITXtreme 4.0

Colombo, Sri Lanka

24-hour hackathon - climbed to 6th on the live leaderboard in a race where the top five teams finished on identical scores.

With Duwaragie Kugaraj · Zayan Mohamed

iCIIT Conclave - event
ParticipantJun 2025

iCIIT Conclave

Colombo, Sri Lanka

A day of talks on AI, digital transformation, interpretable AI, and AI in precision medicine across Sri Lanka's tech landscape.

CodeFest Algothon - event
FinalistJan 2025

CodeFest Algothon

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Ranked 11th of nearly 170 teams across an algorithm-knowledge quiz and a complex logistics shortest-path challenge.

With Hariswara Sidambaram · Imadh Ifham

Google DevFest 2024 - event
ParticipantDec 2024

Google DevFest 2024

Colombo, Sri Lanka

GDG Sri Lanka's flagship event - sessions on LLMs, multimodal search with Gemini Vision and RAG, responsible AI, and high-performance Flutter web with WASM.

More to come.

Always up for the next contest or meetup.