Buddhi Adhikari

Lead Engineering Manager | Software Consultant | Sri Lanka

Engineering leadership for reliable cloud products.

I connect backend architecture, cloud operations, AI-assisted development, and delivery planning so teams can ship software that is practical to maintain, clear in purpose, and ready for real business pressure.

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About

A practical engineering leader who cares how software behaves after the handoff.

Buddhi brings software engineering experience across banking, finance, real estate, automobile data, charity, retail, and product experiments. His work centers on backend systems, API design, database development, CI/CD, cloud operations, AI-assisted delivery practices, and shaping requirements into delivery plans that make sense for clients, users, and engineering teams.

Current Focus

Leading AI-first engineering without losing software discipline.

At Helagen, my focus is helping teams build enterprise software, business apps, and websites with stronger architecture, delivery structure, and platform reliability.

AI-assisted development

Introduced BMAD-inspired workflows for requirements, architecture, task decomposition, implementation, review, and validation.

Engineering enablement

Mentoring engineers on prompt engineering, context engineering, agent workflows, debugging, refactoring, and code quality.

Product to execution

Translating business and product requirements into roadmaps, system designs, delivery plans, and engineering priorities.

Engineering Approach

Good delivery starts with clear requirements, architecture, and validation.

I approach products from the engineering system outward: what needs to be reliable, what the data needs to prove, and where the team needs structure before complexity becomes rework.

01

Clarify the real problem

Start with business goals, edge cases, roles, and operational pressure before choosing the technical path.

02

Build for confidence

Make permissions, errors, audit trails, exports, and deployment paths reliable enough for production use.

03

Structure the delivery

Use spec-driven, AI-assisted workflows to connect requirements, architecture, tasks, implementation, and validation.

Stack

Tools used to ship and support production systems.

Backend

ASP.NET Core, C#, .NET APIs, Azure Functions, background workers, MS Graph integrations.

Cloud & DevOps

Azure, Azure DevOps, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Cloud VMs, CI/CD, server setup.

Data

MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, API persistence models, reporting exports, audit trails.

Frontend & Product

Angular, React, product discovery, business workflows, delivery planning, client communication.

AI-assisted Delivery

Spec-driven development, BMAD-inspired workflows, prompt/context engineering, AI-assisted debugging, review, and validation.

Leadership

How I support engineering teams.

Mentor and unblock

Review work, unblock technical issues, and improve engineering practices through practical feedback and shared context.

Shape delivery plans

Turn requirements into architecture, milestones, implementation paths, and validation checks teams can execute against.

Grow team capability

Support recruitment, onboarding, knowledge sharing, and capability development across the engineering function.

Experience

Professional timeline.

Apr 2026 - Present

Lead Engineering Manager | Helagen

Leading engineering delivery across enterprise software, business apps, websites, architecture, platform reliability, and AI-first development practices.

Dec 2025 - Apr 2026

Associate Tech Lead | TIQRI

Led technical delivery across API, database, Azure, and product workflow decisions for a global real estate client, with a focus on maintainable implementation and reliable delivery.

Dec 2024 - Nov 2025

Senior Software Engineer / Consultant | TIQRI

Designed and developed APIs and databases for a global real estate company using ASP.NET Core, C#, MS SQL, Azure, Azure Functions, and Angular.

Nov 2022 - Nov 2024

Senior Software Engineer | Aizenit Technologies

Guided delivery for a small engineering team on a global investment research platform, managed client requirements, supported recruitment and training, and administered CI/CD through Azure DevOps and Azure Portal.

Oct 2020 - Oct 2022

Software Engineer | Aizenit Technologies

Built APIs and databases for investment research, maintained legacy ASP.NET systems, integrated Open Banking APIs, and worked across Azure Kubernetes Service, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, C#, and Angular.

Sep 2019 - Apr 2021

Founder & Software Engineer | INfiniUM Dev

Contributed to research, design, and development of projects including web scrapers, Discord bots, Telegram bots, and client software using C#, Python, SQL Server, and JavaScript.

Jul 2018 - Jul 2019

Software Developer Intern | PulseCRM

Built C#, HTML Agility Pack, and Selenium screen scrapers for OEM dealer and crime data, tested CRM products, and contributed updates through daily Scrum reporting.

Case Studies

Selected work with business outcomes.

Finance

Global Investment Research Platform

Research authoring, publishing, analytics, and secure portal delivery for an investment banking workflow.

  • Moved research distribution beyond email into reusable publishing flows.
  • Supported exports to IHS Markit, Bloomberg, and CorpAxe.
  • Helped launch a platform that replaced a legacy system from the late 90s and improved customer engagement by 20%.

.NET | Azure | AKS | PostgreSQL

AI Delivery

AI-first Engineering Workflows

Introduced structured AI-assisted development practices for requirements, architecture, task breakdown, implementation, review, and validation.

  • Mentored engineers on prompt engineering and context engineering.
  • Improved consistency across planning, implementation, debugging, and refactoring.
  • Kept quality and maintainability visible while using AI development tools.

Spec-driven Development | BMAD-inspired Workflows | AI Tools

Cloud

Helagen Website & ERPNext Setup

Designed, developed, hosted, and configured Helagen web and ERPNext infrastructure on Google Cloud VM instances.

  • Created a service website for dedicated teams and end-to-end builds.
  • Configured ERPNext and Frappe-related infrastructure.
  • Aligned infrastructure work with long-term support needs.

Google Cloud | ERPNext | Frappe | Web Delivery

Charity

SCDF DevOps Setup

Supported Azure Windows server setup for Sri Lanka Centre for Development Facilitation with load balancing and multi-user access.

  • Worked on server setup, project management, support, and maintenance.
  • Helped align infrastructure decisions with the organization's operating needs.
  • Provided ongoing support for one year.

Azure | Windows Servers | DevOps | Support

GitHub

Original public projects.

AI

voice-clonergen

Prototype Go React Python

Self-hosted consent-based voice cloning app with a Go API, React UI, Python worker, preprocessing, TTS generation, and model comparison adapters.

Why it matters: explores responsible AI tooling with clear separation between API, UI, worker, and model adapters.

View repository
.NET

task-management-app

Backend C# Workflow

C# task management application showing backend application structure and practical workflow modeling.

Why it matters: demonstrates straightforward domain modeling for day-to-day operational software.

View repository
IaC

vm-cluster-arm

Infrastructure HCL Cloud

Infrastructure-oriented repository using HCL for VM cluster provisioning and cloud setup experiments.

Why it matters: captures infrastructure thinking beyond application code.

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Rust

Terrawler

Research Rust Data

Rust-based web crawler exploring fast, systems-level data gathering and parsing workflows.

Why it matters: experiments with performance-oriented data collection and parsing.

View repository
POS

ElixirPoint

Retail C# POS

POS and retail stock management application built in C#, tying product workflows to inventory and sales operations.

Why it matters: connects real retail workflows with inventory and sales operations.

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DApp

Elan-Dapp

Thesis Blockchain IPFS

Final-year thesis project: decentralized mobile backup agent using Hyperledger Fabric blockchain and IPFS.

Why it matters: applies decentralized storage concepts to mobile backup and recovery.

View repository

Credentials

Certifications and education.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

AZ-900 exam, February 2023.

Microsoft DevOps Solutions

AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions, valid September 2023 - September 2025.

BSc. (Hons) Computer Science

University of Westminster, first class honours, 2016 - 2020.

Contact

Let's build something dependable.

Available for software consulting, backend engineering, DevOps, cloud setup, AI-assisted delivery, and technical leadership conversations.

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