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Lakpriya Senevirathna

AI Mobile App Developer · Associate Technical Lead

I build AI mobile apps people enjoy using, from AI apps live in both stores to fintech apps people trust with their money. 8+ years shipping iOS and Android apps, 10+ apps in the stores and 700K+ installs, plus an MSc with Distinction and a paper at RANLP 2025.

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shipping mobile apps
8+ yrs
building fintech apps
5+ yrs
apps live in both stores
10+
installs on apps I’ve built
700K+

Experience

  1. Rhino Partners (Pte) Ltd

    Singapore · Remote
    1. Associate Technical LeadFeb 2026 – now
    2. Senior Software EngineerApr 2024 – Feb 2026
    3. Software EngineerJan 2021 – Apr 2024
    • Build fintech mobile apps for Australian and Singaporean companies with React Native, Swift and Kotlin.
    • Integrated Apple Pay and Google Pay provisioning and Apple Wallet extensions for a card-issuing platform.
    • Built a multi-currency business payments app from the first commit to both app stores.
    • Built data explorers and paid plans for a private-markets research platform with Next.js on AWS.
    • React Native
    • Swift
    • Kotlin
    • TypeScript
    • Next.js
    • NestJS
    • AWS
    • Codemagic

  2. Independent

    Sri Lanka
    1. Mobile App Developer2018 – present
    • Built and published 10+ apps on iOS and Android, with 700K+ installs in total.
    • WheresNow: family location app with 200K+ Google Play installs, native location engines and a realtime backend.
    • AI apps live in both stores: VisChef, Tasklio AI, MemeFrog and Sparkle AI.
    • React Native
    • Expo
    • Java
    • Firebase
    • Node.js
    • OpenAI API
    • Supabase

Selected work

All case studies

Apps in the stores

All apps

Research

Paper · RANLP 2025, pages 1090–1098

Efficient Financial Fraud Detection on Mobile Devices Using Lightweight Large Language Models

Fine-tuned small LLMs with QLoRA, quantised them to ONNX and ran them offline in a React Native app.

Read the paper Research page

Education

  1. 2023 — 25

    MSc Advanced Software Engineering, Distinction

    University of Westminster (via IIT, Sri Lanka)

  2. 2017 — 21

    BSc (Hons) Statistics and Operations Research

    University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Skills

Mobile

  • React Native
  • Expo
  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • Java
  • Apple Pay & Google Pay provisioning

AI

  • OpenAI API
  • Claude API
  • MCP
  • PyTorch
  • Hugging Face
  • LoRA/QLoRA
  • ONNX Runtime

Web & backend

  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • NestJS
  • Python
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis

Cloud & delivery

  • AWS
  • Firebase
  • Supabase
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Codemagic
  • GitHub Actions

Open source

GitHub

Certifications

  • Microsoft CertifiedAzure AI Fundamentals
  • Microsoft CertifiedAzure Fundamentals
  • Microsoft CertifiedAzure Data Fundamentals
  • Microsoft CertifiedPower Platform Fundamentals

Kind words

On LinkedIn

“Lakpriya is one of the most capable developers I have ever worked with. His ability to work smart, hard, and fast consistently results in perfect, timely deliverables.”

Martin DahmsFounder, Product Designer, Brandmaker

“Lakpriya played a crucial role in identifying and fixing these problems, ensuring our app’s functionality was restored and improved.”

Frank van LeeuwenAI Engineer, Lead Software Engineer, Solution Architect

“Amazing developer with a great understanding of customer requirements and bug resolution.”

Justin LatimoreSenior Software Engineer, ex-Microsoft

“Lakpriya is a good team player. Really enjoyed working with him!”

Ally WangProduct Owner, Portfolio Manager, Digital

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