Akila Perera is a pragmatic software engineer and entrepreneur with a decade of experience building e-commerce tooling and web applications from Sri Lanka. As founder of KILATECH and a Shopify Partner, he specializes in end-to-end solutions—Shopify Liquid, Django/Python back-ends, React front-ends, and scalable Postgres-backed deployments—aimed at improving conversion and merchant experience. His hands-on background spans cloud operations, message queues, and performance-focused architecture (RabbitMQ, Celery, GCP, Nginx, PgBouncer), grounded in a B.Sc. Eng. from the University of Moratuwa. Akila has a proven freelance track record on Fiverr and a history of working in scaled Agile teams at GE Transportation, showing both customer-facing delivery and enterprise development skills. He emphasizes practical problem solving, continuous learning, and teamwork as the engine for building impactful products. Notably, he combines entrepreneurial drive with a commitment to serve his community by applying focused technical depth to real-world e-commerce challenges.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Eng. (Hons) in Computer Science & Engineering, B.Sc. Eng. (Hons) in Computer Science & Engineering at University of Moratuwa
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