About
Background and the full competition list.
I started in tech in 2018 at the age of 12, learning about microcontrollers like NodeMCU, Arduino, and Onion.io. From 2018 to 2020 I focused on inventions and robotics. My first robotics competition was in October 2019 at Gateway College, and the same month I competed at Sri Lankan Robotics Challenge 2019.
In 2020 I founded Starfun Games, originally Harindulk Games, and made harindu.dev to publish the work. From 2020 to 2025 the studio mainly built games for international clients.
In March 2021 I released Ghost Zone for Android and PC. In December 2021 I released Bug Star, which drew attention when Australian streamer Mish Manners played it on Twitch.
In May 2022, after winning CodeFlow at Ananda College, I started an internship at 99x. Later that year I represented Sri Lanka at the Asia Pacific ICT Awards in Pakistan after being named Best ICT Student in Sri Lanka and winning the Young Computer Scientist Competition.
In mid-2023 I met President Ranil Wickremesinghe in recognition of that award. At the end of 2023 I started the foundation program at the Informatics Institute of Technology.
In mid-2024 I joined 99x again as a trainee software engineer through 99x Academy 2.0. At the end of 2024 I began undergraduate studies at the University of Westminster.
In October 2025 I left the 99x Academy scholarship. The program was worth staying in. I left because I wanted full-time work to be game development, and I was young enough to switch and get it wrong. I joined Legion Games in December 2025. In 2026 I am in my third year at IIT. Starfun Games moved from client work toward in-house games for Steam, alongside products and a few client projects.
This year
Products I worked on in 2026.
XPenses
Expense tracker. One sentence can become several ledger rows.
Next.js 16, Supabase, Stripe, RevenueCat, Expo, Cloudflare Workers, Gemini
Playwave
Runs a Steam playtest wave: signup page, keys, follow-up mail, and a shared report.
TypeScript, React 19, Vite, Hono, Postgres, Cloudflare Workers, Anthropic / OpenAI
Yard Magnet
90-second electromagnet game for CrazyGames. Hold to pull a car, release to drop it in the crusher.
Unity 6.3 (6000.3.2f1), C#, Built-in Render Pipeline
The Final Room
First-person horror game.
Unity 6.6 (6000.6.0f1), C#
DayStack
Daily app: skincare, workouts, nutrition, and running.
Expo SDK 57, React Native, expo-router, Supabase, expo-sqlite, TypeScript
PayChaser
Follows unpaid invoices. Shows who to email today, drafts the reminder, and stops if they pay, dispute it, or you pause it.
Next.js 16, React 19, Supabase, Drizzle, Postgres, Stripe, Resend, OpenAI
Competitions
Participating in coding and invention competitions since 2018 — 32 total.
| Name | Rank |
|---|---|
| APICTA - The Asia Pacific ICT Alliance Awards | nominee |
| NATIONAL SCHOOLS SOFTWARE COMPETITION - Ministry of Education Sri Lanka | N/A |
| Thinkwave 4.0 - AIESEC in University of Moratuwa | 4th |
| Young Computer Scientist Competition 2022 - Ministry of Education Sri Lanka | Winner |
| IDEALIZE 2022 - AIESEC in University of Moratuwa | 2nd Runners Up |
| Hacktoberfest 2022 | 8 Approved PRs |
| Cutting Edge Coding Competition - IIT | 4th |
| GMTK Game Jam 2022 | 352 / 3019 |
| Virtual Hackathon 2022 - Microsoft | Finalist |
| DimensionX 2022 - Ananda College | N/A |
| CodeFlow 2022 - Ananda College | Winner |
| Aurora 2022 - University of Sri Jayewardenepura | Finalist |
| Million dollar challenge - TigerGraph | N/A |
| Codefest 2021 - SLIIT | Finalist |
| Hack: AI 2021 | Semi-Finalist |
| GitHub GameOff Game Jam 2021 | 40 / 519 |
| GitHub OpenHackDay Sri Lanka 2021 | Top 10 |
| Hacktoberfest 2021 | 7 Approved PRs |
| Brackeys Game Jam 2021.2 | 853 / 1729 |
| HackX Junior 2021 - University of Kelaniya | N/A |
| IDEALIZE 2021 - AIESEC in University of Moratuwa | Semi-Finalist |
| Sri Lankan Robotics Challenge 2021 - University of Moratuwa | N/A |
| INSTINCTUS 20 - Musaeus College | 5th |
| Novus Technica 2020 - Nalanda College | Winner |
| Sahasak Nimavum 2020 - Sri Lanka Inventors Commission | N/A |
| INNOV8 2020 - NSBM | 2nd Runner Up |
| Aurora 2019 - Ananda College | Top 10 |
| Novus Technica 2019 - Nalanda College | Winner |
| Sri Lankan Robotics Challenge 2019 - University of Moratuwa | 12th |
| INNOVATIVE SAINTS 2019 - All Saints College | 2nd Runner Up |
| Robotics Championship 2019 - Gateway College | N/A |
| Novus Technica 2018 - Nalanda College | Best Idea |