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Mizhar Raja

Chief Technology Officer at Finovation Technologies, Full Stack Web Developer, MSc in Software Engineering, AI and prompt engineering practitioner.

I turn complex business problems into elegant, scalable software — a decade of crafting fintech platforms, e-commerce engines and enterprise systems that just work.

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Mizhar Raja holding two FinX Awards 2026 trophies
FinX Awards 2026 · Winner
Years of experience
10+
Projects delivered
50+
Software Engineering, 2025
MSc
Frameworks & platforms
15+

PHP, Laravel, Filament, Vue.js, React, Next.js, JavaScript, Python, MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker, WordPress, Selenium, Firebase, Bootstrap, Git and C# — plus TypeScript, Node.js, Tailwind CSS, Kotlin, Flutter, MongoDB and AI tools: prompt engineering, ChatGPT, Claude and GitHub Copilot.

About me

Engineer. Architect. Problem-Solver.

A decade of turning ideas into software that ships — and a story that runs from Puttalam to Dubai and back.

Hey — I’m Mizhar, a software engineer from Sri Lanka who has spent the last ten years turning ideas into working products. Today I serve as CTO at Finovation Technologies, leading the engineering behind a fintech trading platform. Before that, my journey ran from a web shop in Puttalam through the agency scene in Dubai and back home to senior roles in fast-moving product teams.

Along the way I earned a Master’s in Software Engineering (2025) and delivered 50+ projects — enterprise systems, e-commerce engines, mobile apps and automation bots — learning the craft of shipping on time and within budget. I bring both innovation and reliability to every project I touch.

  • CTO at Finovation Technologies — leading fintech engineering
  • Enterprise systems, e-commerce and automation delivered end to end
  • Experience across Sri Lanka and the UAE — from agencies to product teams
  • MSc in Software Engineering — architecture with academic rigor
  • Prompt engineering & AI tooling as daily force multipliers

MSc Degree

Postgraduate depth in software architecture, design patterns and quality assurance.

Creative Ideas

Problem-solving that pairs business goals with pragmatic, maintainable solutions.

Design

An eye for clean interfaces — from Figma concepts to pixel-accurate front ends.

Development

Full-stack builds — responsive frontends, scalable backends and cloud infrastructure.

What I do

Services That Ship Value

Six ways I help businesses build, automate and scale — every one backed by real projects in my portfolio.

Full-Stack Web Development

From pixel to database — responsive frontends, robust APIs and everything in between, built on PHP, Laravel and modern JavaScript.

Enterprise Systems & CRM

POS, order management, warehousing, ticketing, trading CRM — the systems that quietly run businesses day in, day out.

E-commerce & Marketplace Automation

Repricers, WooCommerce builds and marketplace API integrations that turn manual work into margin.

Mobile Applications

From native Android, Kotlin and Swift to Flutter and React Native — apps designed, built and shipped to real users on real devices.

Cloud & DevOps

AWS architecture (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda), Docker and Git workflows that keep deployments boring — in a good way.

Automation & Scripting

Selenium bots, Google Apps Scripts and MT4 trading algorithms — if it’s repetitive, it can be automated.

Skills

My Technology Arsenal

Proficient across the entire stack — from responsive frontend interfaces to scalable backend systems and cloud infrastructure.

Hot right now — the in-demand stack

Tailwind CSS90%
REST & GraphQL APIs88%
Livewire & Alpine.js88%
TypeScript85%
CI/CD — GitHub Actions85%
Redis & Queue Systems85%
Node.js82%
WebSockets & Real-Time Apps82%

Core Languages

PHP95%
HTML & CSS95%
JavaScript90%
Python75%
C#58%

Backend Frameworks

Filament95%
Laravel90%
CodeIgniter90%
CakePHP90%
Yii75%

Frontend

Bootstrap95%
Vue90%
jQuery90%
Next.js66%
React · Angular · Solid58%

Mobile Development

Android82%
Kotlin75%
Flutter72%
React Native70%
Swift · iOS65%

Databases — SQL

MySQL95%
MariaDB88%
PostgreSQL82%
SQLite82%
Oracle66%

NoSQL & Cloud Data

Redis85%
MongoDB78%
Firebase · Firestore75%
Supabase70%
DynamoDB58%

Cloud & DevOps

Git90%
Docker75%
AWS S375%
AWS EC2 · RDS66%
AWS Lambda58%

CMS & Platforms

WordPress95%
Joomla90%
Figma75%
Photoshop66%
Illustrator58%

Everyday toolbox

VS Code NetBeans Android Studio Arduino IDE WAMP / WNMP WooCommerce Vite Redis GitHub Actions Postman MySQL Workbench pgAdmin Selenium Google Apps Script MT4 / MQL4 After Effects Cross-browser testing
AI

The AI-Augmented Engineer

I don’t compete with AI — I compound with it. Prompt engineering, AI tooling and LLM-powered automation are now part of how I build.

Prompt Engineering

Structured prompts, system messages and context design — the craft of making large language models produce exactly what the job needs.

AI-Assisted Development

ChatGPT, Claude and GitHub Copilot live in my daily toolchain — accelerating delivery without lowering the bar on code quality.

AI Tool Expertise

Always evaluating the newest models and tools — knowing what to adopt, what to skip, and how to fit them into real production workflows.

AI × Automation

A decade of automation experience meets LLMs — bots and pipelines that don’t just click buttons, they make decisions.

Prompt Engineering95%
AI-Assisted Development92%
AI Workflow Automation90%
LLM API Integration88%
AI Code Review & Refactoring88%
AI Chatbot Development85%
AI Image Generation80%
RAG & AI Knowledge Bases78%

Daily AI stack

ChatGPT Claude GitHub Copilot Gemini Cursor Midjourney DALL·E OpenAI API Claude API Prompt patterns AI-powered automation
How I work

From Idea to Impact

A simple, battle-tested process — refined over a decade and 50+ deliveries.

Discover

We dig into the problem, the users and the goals — no code until the “why” is crystal clear.

Architect

Data models, system design, the right stack for the job — a blueprint that scales beyond version one.

Build

Clean, tested, reviewed code in tight iterations — with demos along the way, never a black box.

Launch & Evolve

Ship it, measure it, improve it — with monitoring, support and a roadmap for what’s next.

Experience

The Professional Journey

From a first industry role in Sri Lanka, through the Dubai agency years, to leading engineering as CTO — a decade of levelling up.

2024 — Present Fintech

Finovation Technologies

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Leading engineering and architecture as CTO — building scalable financial technology, including a CRM trading platform, and steering the technical direction of a growing fintech company.

Finovation Technologies specialises in innovative financial technology solutions and software development services, creating next-generation financial platforms tailored to diverse market needs and regulatory requirements.

2022 — 2024 Advertising technology

AdsflyCircle

Senior Full Stack Developer

Built out a dynamic advertising technology platform — architecting scalable backend systems, designing APIs and crafting responsive frontends, including repricing and automation products.

AdsflyCircle offers comprehensive digital advertising solutions, helping businesses and content creators monetise their digital presence through innovative ad networks and technology.

2018 — 2022 Puttalam, Sri Lanka

Silver Rays Technologies · adsfly.lk

Senior Full Stack Developer

Came home to Sri Lanka to join a fast-growing software house building software, mobile apps and websites — and led architecture and development of enterprise-scale applications.

A period of rapid technical growth on a close-knit product team, delivering production systems for clients and in-house products alike.

2017 — 2018 Dubai, UAE

Excellence Code

Built and maintained websites for a creative advertising agency serving clients across the UAE — corporate and brochure sites and campaign work delivered on tight agency timelines.

Worked alongside designers, project managers and art directors, sharpening the ability to translate creative concepts into performant, standards-compliant builds.

2015 — 2017 Dubai, UAE

Prego International

Developed websites for a boutique branding and marketing agency, including work on paralympic.org and sites for UAE national sports organisations (UAENPC.ae, UAEDSC.ae, UAEDSF.ae, MBRAwards.ae).

Two years of high-volume delivery across corporate, government and events projects — building resilience, client-communication skills and cross-cultural teamwork.

2014 — 2015 Puttalam, Sri Lanka

Incitomedia

First industry role at a white-label web development company serving clients worldwide — hands-on experience across the LAMP stack, from small business sites to full marketplace builds.

An intensive learning environment with excellent training and real-world projects — the foundation of a decade-long engineering career.

Continuous learner, dedicated professional, and passionate software engineer. The journey continues…

Awards

Awards & Recognition

Recognition from the fintech industry — two trophies on one stage at the FinX Awards 2026.

Mizhar Raja holding the two FinX Awards 2026 trophies on stage

Elite Fund Management Technology Support — Sri Lanka

FinX Awards 2026 · Finovation

Awarded for the fund-management technology behind Finovation’s platform — the engineering I lead as CTO.

Innovative Investment Fund — Sri Lanka

FinX Awards 2026

A second win on the same night — recognising the innovative investment products powered by our technology.

Portfolio

Projects That Tell the Story

50+ builds across a decade — fintech platforms, e-commerce engines, enterprise systems, mobile apps and automation bots, from scrappy startups to large enterprises. Here are the highlights.

Case studies — in depth

Finovation CRM Trading Platform

FintechCRMEnterprise

Challenge

A growing fintech needed one platform to run client relationships and trading operations — dependable enough for financial workloads, flexible enough to evolve with regulatory requirements.

Solution

An enterprise CRM and trading platform designed for scale — architecture, data model and delivery led end-to-end as CTO.

Result

The platform now powers Finovation’s operations — and its technology earned the “Elite Fund Management Technology Support” trophy at the FinX Awards 2026.

Multi-Marketplace Re-Pricer

APIsKeepaFreelance

Challenge

Sellers competing on eBay, Amazon, OnBuy and Walmart lose margin — or the listing itself — whenever prices move faster than a human can react.

Solution

A cross-marketplace repricing engine wired into Keepa’s price-intelligence API — one dashboard watching four marketplaces and adjusting listings automatically.

Result

Pricing decisions that once demanded constant manual attention now run continuously — listings stay competitive around the clock.

Selenium Automation Suite

SeleniumAutomationAdsflyCircle

Challenge

Data collection and repetitive browser operations consumed hours of manual effort every day at AdsflyCircle.

Solution

A suite of Selenium-driven automation pipelines handling the repetitive work at scale — headless browsers doing the boring jobs reliably.

Result

The repetitive work became a background process, freeing the team for engineering that actually needs humans.

More highlights

Repricer for Dropshippers

A pricing brain that never sleeps — automated repricing that keeps dropshipping listings competitive around the clock.

E-commerceAutomationAdsflyCircle

POS & Order Management

A self-built retail backbone — point-of-sale, inventory, billing and fulfilment flowing through one clean system.

ProductRetailOwn build

Forex Trading EA Scripts

Algorithmic trading on autopilot — Expert Advisors for MetaTrader 4 with strategy logic, risk controls and backtesting.

MT4MQL4Own build

Client Websites & Platforms

  • Arasan.lk Freelance
  • Arasan.co.nz Freelance
  • CTVTamil.tv Freelance
  • News.CTVTamil.tv Freelance
  • AtlantaDevelopers.lk Freelance
  • M-Handcraft.lk Freelance
  • AdsflyCircle.com AdsFly
  • CallOffice.de Freelance
  • DallasClinic.co.nz Freelance
  • LTIAcadamy.co.uk Freelance
  • WooCommerce builds Freelance
  • WordPress plugins Freelance

Mobile Applications

  • CallOffice Freelance
  • Arasan Radio Freelance
  • Arasan News Freelance
  • All Radios Own product

Systems & Automation

  • Warehouse System Freelance
  • Order Management System Own product
  • Ticket Issue Resolving System Freelance
  • Google Sheets App Scripts Freelance
  • Elephant Repelling System (Arduino) Education
Project Archive · 2014 — 2018 25 retired projects

A time capsule from the early years — these projects have since been discontinued, like disco and dinosaurs.

Medical Info · Own MP3 Songs Collection · Own Science Info · Own HelloZilla.com · Own SixBugs.com · Own MabwasiMakram.com · Freelance Billing & Stock Management — Arafath Mills · Freelance AdSoda.com · Incitomedia GiftSoda.com · Incitomedia ExcellenceCode.ae · Excellence Code AlmousaUAELaw.com · Excellence Code MBZIRC.com · Excellence Code Paralympic.org · Prego International UAENPC.ae · Prego International UAEDSC.ae · Prego International UAEDSF.ae · Prego International MBRAwards.ae · Prego International MagicBroomCleaningServices.com · Excellence Code Yoga Wellness UAE · Excellence Code Arcology Printex · Excellence Code HamdanSC.com · Excellence Code KolyKate.com · Freelance LogoToGo.ae · Prego International ASSHT.com · Prego International PuttalamOnline.com · Freelance
Education

The Learning Never Stops

From primary school in Puttalam to a Master’s degree — every step deliberately chosen, every credential earned.

2023 — 2025

MSc in Software Engineering

Completed 2025 · Postgraduate degree

Advanced software architecture, design patterns, project management, quality assurance and emerging technologies — with a focus on enterprise software development, cloud architecture and advanced web technologies, applied through real-world projects and case studies.

2012 — 2014

BTEC HND in Computing

BCAS City Campus · Edexcel (UK)

A 16-unit, internationally recognised vocational qualification balancing theory with hands-on practice — full-stack web development, database management and software project management, with a direct pathway to degree-level study worldwide.

2011 — 2012

ACCESS Programme — Degree Foundation

BCAS · Top performer

Intensive foundation combining Information Technology and Communicative English, completed with top marks and six certifications — two awarded directly by UK partner institutions.

2010 — 2011

Hardware with Networking

ICBT City Campus

Foundational program covering computer hardware architecture, network infrastructure and IT fundamentals — the starting point of a formal IT education journey at Sri Lanka’s leading private campus.

1997 — 2008

Puttalam Hindu Central College

Grade 3 to Grade 13

Eleven formative years — passed the Grade 5 Scholarship Examination, completed the G.C.E. Ordinary Level (O/L) at Grade 11 and the G.C.E. Advanced Level (A/L) through Grades 12 and 13, alongside school sports in cricket and athletics.

1995 — 1996

Puttalam Fathima Balika Maha Vidyalaya

Grade 1 to Grade 2

Where it all began — the first two years of school in Puttalam, before moving on to Puttalam Hindu Central College.

Certificates & qualifications earned along the way

MSc Software Engineering — 2025 BTEC HND in Computing — Edexcel (UK) ACCESS Programme — 6 certificates, 2 awarded by UK partners Hardware with Networking — ICBT City Campus G.C.E. Advanced Level (A/L) — completed G.C.E. Ordinary Level (O/L) — completed Grade 5 Scholarship Examination — passed

Beyond the code — sports & activities

⚽ Football — main squad, Puttalam Wimbledon Soccer Club (2005 — present) 🏏 Hardball cricket — school team (2005 — 2008) ♟️ Chess player 🏃 Athletics — 100m · 200m · 400m · long jump · high jump — school medals & certificates