Akassharjun Shanmugarajah is a Melbourne-based software engineer and project supervisor with 8 years of professional experience and 3+ years focused on backend development. He has deep practical experience in telco backend systems, microservices, observability, and production incident response from roles at Circles.Life and ThinkSmart Solutions. Akassh has a track record of improving reliability and delivery—introducing idempotency, enabling distributed tracing, and cutting CI/CD time by modernizing runtime environments. Now supervising Master of IT projects at the University of Melbourne while completing a Master of Software Engineering, he mentors students to bridge academia and simulated industry practice. His current interest in distributed systems is informed by hands‑on work automating recovery flows and scaling core services, and he also pursues UI design and emerging tech research in his spare time.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, First Class Honours, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, First Class Honours at University of Westminster
Contributions:4 PRs, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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Akassharjun Shanmugarajah - Project Supervisor at University of Melbourne