Hello, my name is

Amithnal
Herath

Mechatronics Engineer. Colombo 🇱🇰. Building things that actually work.

Open for part-time · Melbourne · Monash Masters 2026

The full story (it’s decent)

Engineer. Maker. Builder. 🇱🇰 · Colombo → Melbourne 2026

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The
Story.

Nawala, Colombo → Curtin → Industry → Monash

Finished A-levels a year early and went straight into Mechatronics Engineering at Curtin University Colombo. Started building and breaking things in the lab from day one.

My final year project grew into something much larger than expected: SMARTNAV, a self-funded autonomous wheelchair using LiDAR, SLAM, depth cameras, and EOG eye-movement signals to navigate hospital environments. It was exhibited at Sahasak Nimavum 2025, the national engineering exhibition.

Alongside that, I built robot arms for garment factories, designed medical-grade testing jigs for a NY health-tech startup, shipped a full-stack property intelligence platform, and ran a photography studio, an apparel brand, and a creative agency. All from Colombo. Heading to Monash University Melbourne in July 2026 for a Masters of Advanced Engineering.

2022

First industry role

2025

BEng Hons, Curtin

2026

Masters, Monash

Experience

Industry - 2022 to present

Aug 2025 - Present

Industrial Engineering Consultant

Silueta Pvt Ltd (MAS Holdings) - Colombo

• Project specialist on robot-arm automation for garment manufacturing
• Developed suction-based end effectors including Bernoulli-style prototypes
• Built sensor-driven closed-loop control for synchronized machine operations
• CNC machining, laser cutting, and iterative CAD in SolidWorks / Onshape
• Designed garment-handling jigs and fixtures

Dec 2023 - Jul 2024

Engineering Intern

Twinery - Innovations by MAS - Colombo

• Consumer device testing jig apparatus: CAD, mechanical design, 3D-printed prototyping
• Developed pressure-profile requirements and ran EVT testing cycles
• Built ESP32-based testing jigs for real-time data logging
• Contributed to ISO and US FDA compliance documentation
• GamerTech: designed 3D-printed peripheral parts for heating-glove product line

Nov 2022 - Feb 2023

Engineering Trainee

Phoenix Industries Ltd - Makandura

• HBOT system: designed and 3D-printed mechanical components, full design iterations
• ClearCore firmware for high-dynamic XYZ motion control system
• Toothbrush-Detector: OpenCV conveyor detection for delta-robot picking
• Coordinate mapping, angle detection, and calibration for delta-robot

Education

Completed A-levels one year early

July 2026

Master of Advanced Engineering (Robotics)

Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Focus: autonomous systems, intelligent control, and advanced robotics research.

2021 to 2025

Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Mechatronics

Curtin University Colombo, Sri Lanka

Upper Second Class Honours. Project-focused curriculum across robotics, control systems, embedded systems, and mechatronics design.

January 2021

Pearson Edexcel International Advanced Level

Private candidate, completed at age 17

Finished one year ahead of the standard academic timeline. Mathematics, Physics, Further Mathematics.

October 2018

Pearson Edexcel International GCSE

Royal College, Colombo 07

Division 03  ·  Capabilities

Skills &
Tools.

Not a list of buzzwords. Every tool listed here has been used on a real project, in a real environment, to solve a real problem.

4

Domains

35+

Technologies

100%

Real-world

01 01  ·  Robotics & Autonomy

Autonomous Systems
& Navigation

ROS / ROS2 SLAM LiDAR Depth Sensing Path Planning Obstacle Avoidance Jetson Nano IMU Sensor Fusion

02 02  ·  Embedded & Hardware

Circuits,
Firmware & Control

ESP32 STM32 Arduino ClearCore FPGA PLC (SIMATIC S7) PCB Design Control Systems Signal Processing

03 03  ·  Software & Vision

Code,
Vision & Interfaces

Python C / C++ OpenCV MATLAB React Flutter / Dart REST API Firebase SQL

04 04  ·  Design & Fabrication

CAD, Make
& Documentation

SolidWorks Onshape Figma AutoCAD 3D Printing CNC Machining Laser Cutting Adobe Suite ISO / FDA Docs

Exhibitions &
Recognition

2025

Sahasak Nimavum

National Innovation Exhibition, Sri Lanka

SMARTNAV exhibited: a self-funded autonomous wheelchair using LiDAR, SLAM, depth sensing, and EOG eye-movement control.

2024

Curtin Global Pitching Competition

Curtin University, International

Selected as a Regional Finalist, representing Curtin University Colombo. Pitched SMARTNAV’s vision as a commercially viable assistive mobility platform for structured healthcare environments.

Side Projects & Experiments

The Lab

Things built in parallel, always something running

Featured

active 2026

BTC Algorithmic Trader

Python trading bot growing $10 starting capital. RSI, EMA, MACD, Bollinger Bands signal scoring. Backtested on Binance historical data. Current: +1.2% return, 55% win rate, Sharpe 2.8.

Python NumPy Binance API Technical Analysis Algo Trading

building 2026

Product Sourcing & Development

End-to-end sourcing, PCB design, and supply chain development for a non-disclosable client. Can’t say much. NDA. It’s a good one though.

Embedded PCB NDA

shipped 2025

Fruit Defect Classifier

CNN on Raspberry Pi for real-time mango quality detection. 94% accuracy. Part of SMARTNAV vision stack.

TensorFlow OpenCV CNN

active 2024

Property Scraper Platform

Scrapes Sri Lankan property listings. REST API, WhatsApp alerts, React dashboard. Live with real data.

Python React REST API

shipped 2025

ROS2 Navigation Stack

Custom Nav2 config for SMARTNAV. SLAM toolbox, AMCL localisation, obstacle inflation, behaviour trees.

ROS2 Nav2 SLAM

paused 2025

LSTM Price Predictor

LSTM on OHLCV data for BTC price prediction. Paused, signal noise too high. Replacing with XGBoost ensemble.

PyTorch LSTM OHLCV

active 2024

Wearstashd Growth Engine

Automated Shopify analytics, Meta ad reporting, and drop scheduling. Unified ops dashboard for the brand.

Shopify API Meta Ads Dashboard

Build notes

Dev Log

Ongoing notes from the build

May 2026

BTC Trader: Running backtests on Binance 1H OHLCV. Grid search over entry_threshold 0.25–0.55. Sharpe holding above 2.5. XGBoost layer next.

Apr 2026

SMARTNAV: Preparing documentation for Monash research continuation. Writing up LiDAR-SLAM calibration notes and sensor fusion architecture.

Mar 2026

Smart Vending: PCB v2 ordered. Switching from STM32 to ESP32-S3 for better WiFi stack and OTA firmware update support.

Feb 2026

Robot Arm Project: End-effector redesign: Bernoulli gripper prototype performing well on thin fabric. Advancing to fixture integration testing.

Jan 2026

Property Scraper: Added auto-classification model. Running at ~800 listings/day. Stable in production. WhatsApp alert latency under 2s.

Nov 2025

SMARTNAV: Exhibited at Sahasak Nimavum 2025. Final hardware handover complete. FYP submission graded. Upper Second Honours confirmed.

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