Lakmal — Software Engineer

About

Engineer who thinks in products, not just code.

I work best embedded with small product teams — fewer handoffs, less ceremony, more momentum.

For the last 8+ years I've shipped full-stack and mobile systems for clients across the UK, US and APAC — from regulated fintech rails to on-chain protocols moving real volume.

My favourite problems are the unglamorous ones: state machines that don't lie, billing flows that don't leak, audit trails you can show a regulator on a Friday night.

I own delivery end-to-end — architecture, build, ship, operate — so you spend less time translating between specialists and more time talking to your users.

Founder-friendly

I write code, but I think product. Trade-offs over dogma.

Regulated & on-chain

FCA-adjacent fintech, KYC/AML, smart contracts.

Your time = your money

I treat client hours like my own capital — no busywork, no padding, just momentum toward launch.

End-to-end delivery

Architecture · build · ship · operate.

Services

What I build.

A focused set of services around shipping serious software — full-stack, mobile, fintech, Web3 and AI.

Full-stack product engineering

TypeScript, Next.js, Node, Postgres, infra-as-code. From "we have a Figma" to "we have paying users."

Web3 & smart contracts

Solidity, Foundry, EVM rollups. Vaults, staking and token mechanics — designed to be auditable from day one.

AI-powered SaaS

Eval pipelines, retrieval, agents that actually do work. Built so you can iterate, not throw away.

Mobile & cross-platform

React Native, Expo, Swift where it matters. One codebase, native feel, store-ready.

Regulated fintech rails

Lending, payments and treasury. KYC/AML, double-entry ledgers, idempotent flows that survive audits.

Fractional CTO & advisory

Pre-team or between-CTOs: architecture reviews, hiring rubric, the unsexy decisions that compound.

By the numbers

A few quiet years of compounding work.

8+ years

Shipping production software

40+

Systems delivered, all in production

99.9%

90-day uptime across deployments

Selected work

Recent projects.

A small selection from 2024 — 2026. Most client work is under NDA; happy to talk through the rest on a call.

01

Healthcare consent platform

GDPR/HIPAA-compliant consent management with blockchain audit trails, field-level encryption, and multi-tenant billing — three frontends, one API, zero compliance gaps.

02

Campaign sentiment intelligence

AI-powered B2B SaaS that scrapes, scores and reports political sentiment in real time — multi-agent pipeline, neutral-by-design dashboards campaign managers actually trust.

03

Token mining simulation

Blockchain mining platform that grew from browser MVP to native desktop miner with execution-time proof, MetaMask wallet integration and smart-contract token distribution.

04

Journaling app market analysis

Deep competitive teardown of 17+ apps — pricing models, user complaints mined from Reddit and app stores, and the gaps a new entrant could own on day one.

Software engineer building
production-grade systems
for teams that ship.

Engineer who thinks in products, not just code.

What I build.

A few quiet years of compounding work.

Recent projects.

Have a project in mind?