Practitioners, not professors

Learn from people Still doing the work.

Not career academics. Engineers, architects and operators who run AI in production, and teach what they ship.

  • 10+ Applied AI practitioners
  • 4 hrs In-person weekend sessions
  • Mentor Assigned for the whole programme
Real work. Real feedback.
Agentic AI Bootcamp · Trainers

The trainers teaching the Agentic AI Bootcamp.

The hands-on developer track. Engineers who build and run agentic AI systems in production, teaching from real client work.

Isuru Alagiyawanna Agentic AI Pathway

Isuru Alagiyawanna

AI Engineering & Agentic Systems
  • Head of AI Engineering — Veracity
  • Founder — Zuu Crew AI
  • Head of Curriculum & Lead AI Instructor — BuildrLabs

Isuru doesn't draw a line between building and teaching. He has shipped AI systems into production for real clients, and he teaches from that experience. When he walks students through agent architecture or context engineering, he's sharing decisions he has actually made — including the ones that didn't work the first time.

What students take away isn't just technical knowledge. It's a way of thinking through problems before writing a single line of code.

Nimesha Jinarajadasa Agentic AI Pathway

Nimesha Jinarajadasa

DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure
  • DevOps Solutions Architect — KodeKloud, Singapore
  • Founder — CoDeKu Labs
  • CNCF Kubernetes Sri Lanka Chapter Lead

Nimesha runs production infrastructure that can't afford to fail. At BuildrLabs, he teaches the Advanced Bootcamp of the Agentic AI Pathway: taking the systems students have built and making them production-ready.

His sessions cover what doesn't show up in documentation — what breaks at 2am, how to write the runbook after, and why the rollback plan matters as much as the deploy.

Applied AI for Professionals · Trainers

The Trainers for the Applied AI Bootcamp.

A different cohort, a different faculty. The 10+ practitioners below lead the Applied AI for Working Professionals bootcamp — brand leaders, founders, HR directors, and operators from Dialog Axiata, MAS, John Keells, and Wavenet, each already running their own work on AI.

Ammar Ahamed

Ammar Ahamed

Head of Growth
BuildrLabs and Vector Agents
Isuru Alagiyawanna

Isuru Alagiyawanna

Head of Curriculum, BuildrLabs
Head of AI Engineering, Veracity
Dr Sithira Ambepitiya

Dr Sithira Ambepitiya

Head of AI, AIGP
MBBS turned AI Lead
Lishan Peiris

Lishan Peiris

Assistant Manager, Brand · Wavenet
Lecturer, AMDT
Mevan Liyanage

Mevan Liyanage

Senior Technology Consultant, Evensys
Power Platform, RPA & Copilot Studio AI agents
Abubakker Bakthathi

Abubakker Bakthathi

Founder & CEO, Paralox Media
AI solutions, consulting & training for brands
Dilusha Perera

Dilusha Perera

Lead Digital Evangelist
MAS KREEDA
Hasara Munasinghe

Hasara Munasinghe

Lead Project Manager
Octave, John Keells Group
Sudeshi Jayasuriya

Sudeshi Jayasuriya

Founder, Mira AI
Former Director of HR, Boardpac
Kavindu Eshara

Kavindu Eshara

CEO & Founder
ABSOLX CORE AI
Naseef Athaur Rahman

Naseef Athaur Rahman

Founder, Cravix
Exited
Faahika Fakir

Faahika Fakir

Head of Operations
Oceans

More trainers join each cohort as new domain tracks open.

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Why it matters

The difference is who’s in the room.

Your first industry
connections.

Your Instructors Are Your First Industry Connections

The relationships you build here don't end on the last day of the programme. Your instructors are active in the industry, and they remember the students who showed up and built something real.

The Curriculum Updates Because The Instructors Are Still In It

When tools change, when new frameworks emerge, when the field shifts — our instructors know before anyone else. What you learn is current because the people teaching it are current.

No Lectures. No Disappearing Acts.

They bring real problems into the room, push you to think through what you're building, and give feedback that only comes from having done it yourself.

Mentors at the table

They teach it by building it.

Our instructors and mentors in session with our September 2026 sessions at Hatch Works, Colombo.

FAQs

On learning from people who are still doing it.

How much time do instructors spend with students? +

Four-hour in-person weekend sessions, plus an assigned mentor throughout the programme. The instructors are there to teach, to debug with you, and to give the kind of feedback that only comes from experience.

Are instructors available outside of sessions? +

There are structured touchpoints throughout the programme, and being inside Hatch Works means you're naturally more accessible than in any online course. Mentoring support details are in the programme materials.

What makes a BuildrLabs instructor different from a regular trainer? +

They're still doing the work. Isuru is actively building agentic AI systems for clients. Nimesha is running production infrastructure at scale. They're not teaching from a textbook written three years ago.

Will there be more instructors added? +

Yes. As BuildrLabs grows, we bring in practitioners from across the industry for guest sessions, specialist workshops, and future cohorts.