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Practitioners Wanted

Train the
Next Wave
of AI.

If you've lived the AI journey — built something, shipped something, solved a real problem — we want you. We're building a network of people who use AI every day and teach practitioners who actually use AI daily. Get paid. Build your impact. Help others skip the years you spent learning.

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Apply if you —
  • ✓ Use AI every single day — not just occasionally
  • ✓ Have real results to show, not just experiments
  • ✓ Can explain AI clearly to non-technical people
  • ✓ Are honest about what AI still can't do
  • ✓ Still consider yourself a student of the space
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Meet the Team

Our AI
Trainers & Experts

Our trainers aren't lecturers reading off slides — they're practitioners and builders themselves. Founders, engineers, marketers, and transformation leaders who use AI to ship real work every single day. They've joined Cocoon on one shared mission: to upskill the region and help others skip the years they spent learning.

Ammar Ahamed

Ammar Ahamed

Founder — Cocoon · Head of Growth, Vector & BuildrLabs

Founder of Cocoon and co-founder of Buildin Blocks — driving growth and AI adoption across the region.

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Hasara Munasinghe

Hasara Munasinghe

Lead Project Manager — Octave, John Keells Group

Driving digital and AI-led project delivery at John Keells Group's data & analytics arm.

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Prasanna Rodrigo

Prasanna Rodrigo

Associate Software Architect — CodeGen

Engineering leader overseeing AI Labs — Enterprise AI, agentic platforms, RAG solutions & GenAI delivery.

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Kavindu Eshara

Kavindu Eshara

CEO & Founder — ABSOLX CORE AI

AI Engineer & Researcher building defense AI, MEGHA UAV & HPC systems — SOUL, ARC OS.

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Faahika Fakir

Faahika Fakir

Head of Operations — Oceans

Product marketing, project management & business development leader driving client growth.

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Lishan Peiris

Lishan Peiris

Assistant Manager, Brand — Wavenet · Lecturer, AMDT

Brand strategy, AI for brands & tech marketing — creative lead and product marketer.

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Abubakker Bakthathi

Abubakker Bakthathi

Founder & CEO — Paralox Media

AI solutions development, AI consulting & training for brands building AI-powered systems.

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Kavinda Kumarasinghe

Kavinda Kumarasinghe

Senior Executive, Digital Transformation — MAS KREEDA

RPA developer specialising in Microsoft Power Platform & MS Office Scripts automation.

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Dilusha Perera

Dilusha Perera

Lead Digital Evangelist — MAS KREEDA

Digital transformation leader driving AI & automation adoption across MAS Activewear.

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Sudeshi Jayasuriya

Sudeshi Jayasuriya

Founder — Mira AI · Former Director of HR, Boardpac

Building Mira — an AI HR operations executive and AI employee for HR teams.

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Naseef Athaur Rahman

Naseef Athaur Rahman

Founder — Cravix · Exited Browser Bird

Helping 37+ businesses across the USA, UK & Europe save 3,000+ hours a year through full-code & AI automation.

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Isuru Alagiyawanna

Founder — Zuu Crew AI · Head of AI, Veracity

AI lead & educator building zuucrew.ai & talentsync.ai — 2,500+ engineers trained worldwide.

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Ayyash Ahamed

Ayyash Ahamed

Co-founder & CEO — Buildin Blocks

Chartered marketer helping brands scale with digital strategies.

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Affan Ahamed

Affan Ahamed

Founder — Linkify · GTM Specialist, Oceans

Global SaaS Top 200 — GTM & product marketing, AI & SaaS, LinkedIn growth.

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Dr Akshika Wijesundara

Dr Akshika Wijesundara

Co-founder & Instructor — The AI Internship · Senior AI Consultant, United Nations

Teaching a million+ to master AI — building production-grade AI systems and upskilling teams to ship in weeks, not quarters.

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Kevin Musprett

Kevin Musprett

Co-founder & CEO — Boring Host AI

Building Boring Host AI — making AI infrastructure simple, reliable, and effortless to deploy.

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Minsara

Minsara Samarakkodi

Co-founder & CTO — Boring Host AI

Technical co-founder building the engineering behind Boring Host AI's deployment platform.

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Dr Sithira Ambepitiya

Dr Sithira Ambepitiya

Head of AI — AIGP · MBBS turned AI Lead

GenAI lead & agentic engineering specialist — agentic memory & agent harness designer, dLLM enthusiast.

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Hansa Naurunna

Associate Tech Lead, AI/ML — Gapstars

AI/ML engineering lead building production machine learning systems.

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Jameel

Jameel Ur Rahman

Principal Software Engineer — ExpressVPN

Principal engineer building secure, large-scale systems at one of the world's leading VPN providers.

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Anas Ilyas

Anas Ilyas

Associate Lead, IAM & Cyber Security — Sysco LABS Sri Lanka

Identity & access management and cyber security specialist — MSc Cyber Security, CCNA, Azure, ITIL 4.

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Saad Mazhar

Saad Mazhar

Business Development — Spectrify AI · Co-Founder, Tank Sudda

Full-stack developer (React, Java, Flutter) working across startups, AI & Web3 — tech speaker and professional compère.

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Tharindu Karunarathne

Tharindu Karunarathne

Senior Brand Manager — Dialog Axiata · Former Brand Manager, Phoenix Industries

Brand strategist and marketing leader shaping one of Sri Lanka's biggest telco brands, using AI to sharpen brand and campaign work.

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These aren't just programs and modules for us.
These are skills we use on the daily. All trainers are experts in their own fields, who use AI in their day-to-day and who are actively seeing returns.
The People Behind It

Trainers who genuinely
love this work.

Our trainers teach because they genuinely want to. They're founders, engineers, marketers, and operators who are genuinely obsessed with AI — the kind of people who try a new tool the day it drops and message the group chat at midnight about what it can do. That energy is real, it's contagious, and it's exactly what you feel the moment you're in the room with them.

What lights them up most isn't the technology — it's the moment someone goes from "I don't get this" to "wait, I just built that." They teach because they remember how long it took them to figure this out on their own, and they're excited to hand the community those years back.

Upskilling our community isn't a tagline to them — it's the reason they show up. They genuinely want to see Sri Lanka and the wider region not just keep up with AI, but lead with it. You don't have to take our word for it; you'll feel it in your first session.

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Who we're looking for

Titles second.
Practitioners first.

We don't want people who've read about AI. We want people who've built with it, failed with it, and can speak honestly about what it actually changes.

Marketing
& Growth

You're using AI to create campaigns, write copy, analyse audiences, and move faster than your competitors. Results you can point to.

Best fit if you're in marketing, growth, or brand ↗
Developers
& Engineers

You're building with Cursor, Copilot, Claude, or similar. You can show non-technical teams how AI makes engineering better — and less lonely.

Best fit if you're in tech, product, or engineering ↗
HR & People
Leaders

You're using AI to transform hiring, employee development, and how your organisation runs. You understand the human side of AI adoption.

Best fit if you're in HR, L&D, or people ops ↗
Founders
& Operators

You're building with AI — products, automations, systems. You've shipped things. You know what works and what's hype.

Best fit if you're a founder, COO, or ops leader ↗
Creatives
& Designers

You're using Midjourney, Runway, ElevenLabs, or similar to do work that used to take weeks. You can inspire others to see the same creative unlocks.

Best fit if you're in design, content, or media ↗
Consultants
& Analysts

You're using AI to deliver sharper insights, faster. You see the ROI clearly and can help others build the business case for AI in their context.

Best fit if you're in strategy, finance, or consulting ↗

Our Philosophy

We don't teach AI.
We share what we actually use.

Cocoon trainers are practitioners first. People actively applying AI in their work, seeing measurable results, and helping others do the same.

01

You bring your real work into the room — not slides about other people's work

02

You're honest about limitations — not selling the dream, showing the reality

03

You adapt to your audience — an exec team needs something different from a dev team

04

You're still learning — every great Cocoon trainer still considers themselves a student

What you get

More than
a gig.
A network.

Cocoon trainers don't just show up and deliver sessions. They join a growing ecosystem of practitioners across Asia who are actively shaping how the next generation of professionals learns AI.

We review every application personally. We're not looking for volume — we're looking for the right people who genuinely care about teaching, not just about the fee.

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Paid Training Engagements Earn from corporate workshops, cohort sessions, and online programmes across the region.
5-Country Network Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, India, and Cambodia — work across Asia without being stuck in one market.
Build Your Personal Brand Be featured as a Cocoon trainer on the website, in marketing, and across the platform.
Curriculum Collaboration Co-create programmes with other trainers. Your expertise shapes what gets taught.
Access to Cocoon's Client Network Reach enterprise clients and organisations you'd never reach on your own.
Reviewed Personally by Ammar Every application goes directly to the founder. No HR gatekeepers, no automated rejections.
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Tell us
about
yourself.

Applications are reviewed personally. We reply to every one — even if it's a no. Fill this in honestly and we'll take it from there.

We review every application personally. Expect a response within 5 business days.

✓ Application received

We've got it.
We'll be in touch.

Ammar reviews every application personally. You'll hear back within 5 business days — whether it's a yes, a maybe, or a not yet. Thank you for wanting to be part of this.