Amanda Jayanetti
Software Engineer at Canva
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAmanda Jayanetti is a software engineer with 11 years of experience blending backend engineering, cloud-native systems and data-driven research, now contributing to Canva from Melbourne. She has built scalable microservices and event-driven architectures across fintech and retail—implementing AWS-heavy solutions at Tyro and redesigning Coles' high-performance APIs—while leading API gateway and hybrid deployment work at WSO2. Her PhD research translated into practical Deep Reinforcement Learning enhancements for Kubernetes/Argo scheduling, bringing academic rigor to production orchestration problems. An active open-source contributor, she improved tenant-aware token management and microgateway components on the widely used WSO2 carbon-apimgt project. Amanda pairs a strong systems and cloud engineering pedigree with a curiosity for intelligence-driven infrastructure optimization.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The University of MelbourneBachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering at University of MoratuwaThe Chartered Institute of Management AccountantsCambridge International AS and A Levels, Cambridge International AS and A Levels at Lyceum International School, NugegodaGCE Advanced Level, GCE Advanced Level at Sirimavo Bandaranaike Vidyalaya, Colombo 07
English, Sinhala
Github Skills (11)
javas10
api-management10
microservices-application10
microservices10
backend10
oauth10
java10
api-design9
api9
apim9
fest3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
wso2/carbon-apimgt
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 5 PRs, 11 comments in 26 days
Contributions summary:Amanda contributed significantly to the micro gateway common component, implementing utility functions for token management and client registration. They added components related to tenant initialization, including server startup listeners and tenant-aware username handling. Additionally, the user made improvements to existing code, including documentation, and database connection management.
api-management
amandaJayanetti/cloudsimsdn
May 2019 - Oct 2020
CloudSimSDN is an SDN extension of CloudSim project to simulate SDN features in the context of a cloud data center.
Contributions:3 PRs, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
simulatecentercloudsimdata-centersdn
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