Nipun Theekshana is an engineering leader from Sri Lanka: co-founder and CTO of PerfectUs, a blockchain development studio, and founder of Prabhava Labs, a non-profit for open-source civic data, on-device ML and embedded systems.

Engineering leader with 10+ years of experience building and shipping software, including nearly five years as co-founder and CTO of PerfectUs, a blockchain development studio. Built and led an engineering organisation of 50+ engineers and delivered 1,000+ smart contracts for clients worldwide with zero critical security incidents. Previously Tech Lead at KeenEye in Colombo and Paris, leading 21 engineers across IoT, mobile and web products for European and US clients. Founded Prabhava Labs, a non-profit focused on independent open-source initiatives in civic data, on-device ML and embedded systems.

Current focus

Updated 2026-09-28

• Growing Prabhava Labs into a shelf of useful, open tools for Sri Lanka.
• Shipping Lanka PriceLens: every food price in the country, every day, with provenance.
• Building Colombo Atlas and a delivery game on real Colombo roads, in the browser.
• Designing tiny-screen hardware: AgentMeter and the Mochi animation SDK.
• Starting this blog — engineering write-ups, decisions and the occasional failure.

Featured projects

• AgentMeter — A desk display for live usage windows
• Colombo Atlas — A little bit of Colombo, in your browser
• GeoPop — Who lives near this coordinate, in milliseconds
• Lanka Data Layer — Sri Lanka’s open geo-data API
• Lanka PriceLens — Every food price in Sri Lanka, every day
• Salli — A private, local-first money companion

All projects

• AgentMeter — A desk display for live usage windows
• Colombo Atlas — A little bit of Colombo, in your browser
• GeoPop — Who lives near this coordinate, in milliseconds
• Lanka Data Layer — Sri Lanka’s open geo-data API
• Lanka PriceLens — Every food price in Sri Lanka, every day
• Salli — A private, local-first money companion
• Attendly — A tuition class, run from one door
• Ceylon Hub — All of Sri Lanka, on one open map
• Colombo Delivery — A delivery game on Colombo’s real roads
• Goyama — An open knowledge base for Sri Lankan farming
• GridPulse — A live map of every power cut in Sri Lanka
• Mansariya — Bus tracking with no hardware on buses
• MendLog — Speak the repair, skip the form
• Mochi — Little characters for little screens
• OpenPay — Crypto in, Sri Lankan rupees out
• OpenTreasury — Public spending anyone can verify
• TerraRun — Run a loop, own the land inside it
• Vidura — Learn from any English YouTube video — in Sinhala

Writing

• An island made of points — How the Sri Lanka on the home page is drawn: 15,000 WebGL points, a 6 KB coastline, stylised relief, and a page that stays fast because the 3D loads last.
• Hello, world — again — Why I finally built a home on the web, and what I plan to write here.

Contact

• GitHub — @theetaz
• LinkedIn — nipun-theekshana
• Prabhava Labs — prabhavalabs.com
• Email — theekshana2@gmail.com