Tech · Business · Human

Supuni Manamperi

Senior AI Engineer building production AI systems at the intersection of AI engineering, software systems, and product thinking.

With 5+ years of software engineering experience, I build AI-powered products that combine modern AI capabilities with reliable software architecture, real user needs, and business context.

Supuni Manamperi
StatusOpen to Senior AI Engineering Roles
Based inSri Lanka · Remote
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What I bring

I build AI systems — and products — that solve real problems for people and businesses. A mix of AI engineering, software systems, product thinking, and human leadership.

01 / VALUES

Technology should create meaningful value — for people, businesses, and the world around us.

02 / CRAFT

Great products come from understanding people, thoughtful engineering, attention to detail, and craftsmanship.

03 / APPLIED

I learn by building — exploring ideas through experiments, real use cases, and products that solve real problems.

What I do

Three disciplines,
one engineer.

01

Build & lead production systems

Five years building and leading production SaaS across customer engagement, CRM, messaging, analytics, and data systems. Designing reliable architectures, integrating external platforms, and working across engineering, product, and delivery.

Distributed SystemsEvent-DrivenAPIsAWS
02

Engineer production AI systems

Building AI-powered products with RAG, agents, MCP, conversational AI, and modern orchestration. Focused on grounding, evaluation, reliability, and turning AI capabilities into systems that work in real product environments.

RAGAgentsMCPLangGraph
03

Connect technology, product & people

Turn ambiguous product and business problems into practical technical solutions. Work across product decisions, system architecture, stakeholder alignment, and team mentoring to move ideas from concept to production.

ProductSystem DesignLeadershipMentorship
Phase 01 Software Engineering — The Foundation
01

Full-Stack Foundations

Started as a software engineer, building features end to end across the stack and learning what it takes to ship, maintain, and support production software.

JavaScriptTypeScriptReactNode.js
02

SaaS Platforms & Architecture

Built customer engagement, messaging, CRM, and SaaS systems serving thousands of businesses — developing reusable frontend and backend patterns, APIs, integrations, and event-driven workflows.

SaaSKafkaEvent-DrivenAPIs
03

Data & Scale

Designed high-performance data and analytics systems handling 110M+ records, improving query performance for read-heavy workloads and powering real-time business reporting.

ClickHouseMongoDBRedisSQLAnalytics
04

Technical & Product Leadership

Grew into system design, product ownership, stakeholder alignment, and team mentorship — connecting engineering, product, and business priorities around shared outcomes.

System DesignProductLeadershipMentorship
Phase 02 AI Engineering — The Current Chapter
05

AI Integration

Began integrating Generative AI into real products — connecting conversational experiences with existing APIs, business data, and workflows through MCP, OAuth, and tool-based architectures.

MCPOAuthTool CallingREST APIs
06

AI Systems Engineering

Expanded into end-to-end AI system engineering — RAG, agent orchestration, context engineering, memory, evaluation, guardrails, observability, and production deployment.

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07

Production AI Systems

Building and operating AI-powered products that combine Generative AI with strong software foundations — focusing on reliable, grounded, observable, and business-ready systems.

AI SystemsReliabilityProduction AIConversational AI
Case study · MarketBuzz

From stagnation to growth — by execution, not just code.

Senior Software Engineer · Product Lead — ShoutOUT Labs · MarketBuzz

Led engineering and product initiatives across architecture, execution, customer engagement, analytics, and AI-powered product development for MarketBuzz.

~75%
improvement in cross-team execution efficiency
~20%
lift in customer retention alongside faster iteration
~10%
revenue growth within three months of alignment
<1 wk
delivery per feature, down from rigid two-week cycles
Selected work

Systems, products & AI.

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Beyond engineering

A broader perspective.

Building technology and creating handcrafted products both remind me that great products start with understanding people, paying attention to detail, and caring about the craft.

Let’s build something intelligent

Always happy
to connect.

For engineers, AI practitioners, product builders, founders, and teams building intelligent products and real-world systems.