Tharuka Devendra
Founding Engineer (AI Lead) at Ares Intelligence
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTharuka Devendra is a founding engineer and AI lead with 8 years of experience turning 0→1 ideas into production systems, most notably scaling Elfin Market from launch to 40k+ customers and £90M in lending. As the first backend/AI hire at multiple startups (employee #2/3), they blend deep software engineering discipline with hands-on expertise in conversational AI, prompt engineering, evals, LLM observability, and multi-agent systems. Currently at Ares Intelligence after a pivot from Instruct, Tharuka focuses on building systems that reason over messy operational context to deliver organisational intelligence. Comfortable across the stack, they’ve repeatedly guided AI-assisted tools to produce production-ready code and have tested a wide range of AI code editors and agents, giving them practical insight into developer workflows that most AI engineers miss.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree (with a Year in Industry), Mechanical Engineering, Master's degree (with a Year in Industry), Mechanical Engineering at The University of SheffieldA-levels, Maths, Further Maths, Physics, A-levels, Maths, Further Maths, Physics at Chellaston Academy Sixth Form
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Github Skills (38)
javascript10
python10
typescript10
swagger10
user-interface10
devtools10
api10
rest10
asgi10
linter10
frontend10
react10
graph-database9
static-analysis9
static-code-analysis9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Tsdevendra1/NEAT-Algorithm
Oct 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:111 commits, 100 pushes, 30 branches in 6 months
Tsdevendra1/litestar
Jul 2023 - Nov 2023
Light, Flexible and Extensible ASGI API framework | Effortlessly Build Performant APIs
Contributions:38 pushes, 4 branches in 4 months
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