Akilaย Wajirasena
Senior Software Architect at LSEG
Australia
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Top SchoolAkila Wajirasena is a Senior Software Architect based in Greater Melbourne with over a decade of experience designing low-latency data platforms and analytics for financial markets at LSEG. He has progressed through engineering and leadership roles to architect production systems using Apache Spark, Flink, Kafka, Airflow and columnar storage technologies, with notable work on real-time pattern detection and latency analytics. He combines a strong academic foundation in electronic and telecommunication engineering and business analytics with hands-on open source and freelance development experience. Akila is comfortable bridging data engineering, platform architecture and visualization (Tableau, Plotly) to turn complex trading signals into operational products. Colleagues would note his long tenure at a single global market-data firm as evidence of deep domain expertise and pragmatic delivery. Outside the office he continues contributing to open source and freelance projects, reflecting a sustained curiosity beyond enterprise systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Engineering Electronic & Telecommunication Engineering, BSc Engineering Electronic & Telecommunication Engineering at University of MoratuwaMaster of Business Analytics, Master of Business Analytics at University of Colombo School of Computing
English, Sinhalese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (80)
cordova-android10
apache-cordova10
mobile-application10
java10
nodejs10
cordova10
javascript9
intellij-plugin9
android9
pandas8
python8
firebase8
apache8
mobile8
environmental7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
akilawickey/IoT-hub
Apr 2016 - Mar 2019
Developing a basic IoT platform using esp8266 devices and RaspberryPi
Contributions:35 commits, 3 PRs, 32 pushes in 3 years
raspberry-pidevelopingesp8266mqttraspberrypi
akilawickey/pinPotha-meritbook
Jan 2016 - May 2019
Open source project to develop mobile application for gain healthy mind for people.
Contributions:1 release, 36 commits, 23 PRs in 3 years 5 months
mobile-applicationreact-nativefirebaseandroidhealthy
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