Anjula Karunarathne is an Associate Tech Lead and full-stack engineer with 8 years of experience building secure, scalable FinTech SaaS platforms using .NET (C#, ASP.NET Core), Azure, and modern frontend frameworks like Angular and React. At 99x she has led large-scale modernization and cloud migrations, cutting Azure costs by roughly 50% while driving monolith-to-microservice transformations and resilient, event-driven architectures. She combines hands-on API and microservice design with enterprise security expertise—implementing RBAC, SSO/OIDC, IdentityServer, and claims-based authorization across multi-tenant environments. A pragmatic delivery lead and Scrum Master, she maintains production CI/CD pipelines and has run incident recovery and global region expansions to ensure operational continuity. Beyond work, she contributes front-end fixes to notable open-source projects such as the popular Joplin desktop client, demonstrating attention to UI detail and cross-platform usability. Based in Colombo, she pairs academic Computer Science training from UCSC with a track record of measurable reliability and performance improvements in financial systems.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (Honours), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (Honours), Computer Science at University of Colombo School of Computing
Joplin - the privacy-focused note taking app with sync capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:8 reviews, 10 commits, 11 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Anjula primarily contributed to the desktop client's front-end development, focusing on user interface improvements and bug fixes. They addressed issues related to button label visibility, incorrect location formats, and Go To Anything modal behavior. Their work involved modifying React components and integrating new functionalities like the keyboard shortcut editor.
Contributions:27 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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