Our Trainers

Learn From People At The Frontier.

Mastery in this field isn’t about knowing the most. It’s about being the kind of person who stays current as the field moves, thinks clearly when things break, and can build something real under pressure.

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Meet Your Instructors

The People Teaching The Programme.

Isuru Alagiyawanna

AI Engineering & Agentic Systems

Head of Curriculum — BuildrLabs
Head of AI Engineering — Veracity
Founder — Zuu Crew AI

Isuru doesn't draw a line between building and teaching. He has shipped AI systems into production: real systems, for real clients, with real consequences when they break. He teaches from that experience, which means when he walks students through agent architecture or context engineering, he isn't presenting a framework. He's sharing the decisions he has actually made and what happened when they didn't work.

He has trained over 2,500 people across workshops, cohorts, and industry sessions. What students leave with isn't just technical knowledge, it's a way of thinking through problems before they write a single line of code.

Nimesha Jinarajadasa

DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure

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

Nimesha has spent years running production infrastructure that couldn't afford to fail. As a DevOps Solutions Architect at KodeKloud and the CNCF Kubernetes Sri Lanka Chapter Lead, he works at the level where theory gets tested; by real traffic, real failures, and real pressure.

At Buildr Labs, he teaches the second half of the programme: taking the AI systems students have already 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.

The Difference Is Who’s In The Room.

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 — currently building, deploying, and hiring — so 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 industry shifts — our instructors know before anyone else. What you learn here is current because the people teaching it are current.

A Technical Assistant Is In The Room With You

Alongside the lead instructors, a dedicated Technical Assistant sits with the cohort to help with anything you get stuck on — environment setup, debugging, deployment hiccups, code reviews. You don't have to wait until next Saturday to unblock yourself.

No Lectures. No Disappearing Acts.

They bring real problems into the room, push you to think like an engineer, and give you feedback that only comes from having done it yourself.

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FAQs

On Learning From People Who Are Still Doing It

How much time do instructors spend with students? +

4-hour in-person Saturday sessions every week. 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 to the instructors than in any online course.

What makes a Buildr Labs 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 aren't teaching from a textbook written three years ago — they're teaching from what happened last month.

Will there be more instructors added? +

Yes. As Buildr Labs grows, we bring in practitioners from across the industry for guest sessions, specialist workshops, and future cohorts. The goal is to have the best AI educators in the world teaching here.