Akila Dananjaya
Lead Full Stack Engineer at Skillfully
Sri Lanka
Summary
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Top SchoolAkila Dananjaya is a Lead Full Stack Engineer with a decade of software experience and a track record of shipping scalable web systems across startups in Sri Lanka. He partners directly with founders to design product-critical features, led a development team through a $2.5M fundraising milestone, and architected AWS infrastructure migrations from EC2 to ECS with CI/CD to boost reliability. His hands-on expertise spans database schema design and PostgreSQL migrations, Terraform-powered infra for thousands of active users, and React-based template engines that generate PDFs and dynamic OpenGraph images. Known for pragmatic leadership, he moves legacy projects from “red” to “green” and runs workshops to elevate team skills in scripting and best practices. Despite jokingly calling himself a “certified copy paste engineer,” his record shows thoughtful systems design and consistent delivery under product and scalability constraints.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (Honours) Computing, Bachelor of Science (Honours) Computing at Wrexham University
English
Github Skills (65)
visual-editor8
backend7
amplify7
converter7
pdf7
flask6
python6
sender6
subtitle6
css6
factory6
html5
multer5
firebase5
slideshow5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hddananjaya/FlaskFire
Oct 2019 - Dec 2020
Reinventing the wheel for messaging. Simple messaging application based on Flask, SocketIO & Firebase
Contributions:40 commits, 26 PRs, 65 pushes in 1 year 2 months
firebaseflasksocket-iofirebase-admin-sdkfirebase-authentication
I2NhbmloZWxweW91/Crackany
May 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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