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Top SchoolAkalanka Arachchi is a Senior Java Developer based in England with 14 years of experience building and leading backend and payments-focused engineering teams. He combines hands-on Java and React development with technical leadership—owning design, code reviews, mentoring, and end-to-end delivery across retail, e-commerce and 3D Secure payment systems. Akalanka has repeatedly driven migration of on-premise payments solutions to AWS and ensured PCI-aligned architectures, reflecting deep domain expertise beyond typical backend engineering. His background includes research and development on messaging systems (AMQP/MQTT) at WSO2, highlighting strengths in distributed systems and integration. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic bridge between customer needs and technical teams, skilled at turning complex requirements into reliable, production-ready systems.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc. Eng., Computer Software Engineering, Bsc. Eng., Computer Software Engineering at University of Peradeniya
Kingswood College, Kandy