Summary
Aravinda Rathnayake is a Technical Lead and software engineer with eight years' experience building full-stack JavaScript/TypeScript solutions and contributing to open-source projects. He has driven delivery for enterprise-grade products in fashion, healthcare and manufacturing at Fortude and led platform and frontend efforts for Big Data teams at Zone24x7, consistently shipping high-priority features with strong quality. Currently pursuing an MSc in Business Analytics with a focus on Data Engineering, he blends hands-on development with growing expertise in data-driven product design. He also consults for logistics clients to improve operational productivity, and his long-standing open-source work (including utilities like Packer-CLI and UI components) reflects a practical, community-minded engineering approach. Notably, his background spans both server administration and R&D for social listening and IoT-adjacent solutions, giving him a rare mix of infrastructure, analytics and user-facing experience.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate in Higher Education, Computer Science, Pass, Certificate in Higher Education, Computer Science, Pass at Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT Campus)
Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics at Maliyadeva College
MSc Business Analytics, Data Engineering, MSc Business Analytics, Data Engineering at Robert Gordon University
BSc (Hons) in Computing, Information Technology, First Class Honours, BSc (Hons) in Computing, Information Technology, First Class Honours at Coventry University
Higher Diploma in Computer based Information Systems, Computer Science, Distinction, Higher Diploma in Computer based Information Systems, Computer Science, Distinction at National Institute of Business Management (NIBM - Sri Lanka)
English, Sinhala