Summary
Asiri Obeysekara is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in applied modelling and computational engineering, with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, distributed and high-performance computing platforms. He blends a research background (PhD in Computational Physics) with hands-on expertise in Python, Rust, C, Fortran, Kubernetes and AWS to deliver scalable simulation and automation tooling for engineering workflows. At Arrival and Improbable/Kallikor he led HPC and simulation platform initiatives, championing SLO-driven observability, CI/CD and on-call reliability for production clusters. He is comfortable moving between algorithm design for multi-phase fluid dynamics and production-grade systems engineering, uniquely bridging academic numerical methods with industrial cloud deployment. Based in London, he’s known for mentoring engineers, running code sprints, and pragmatically integrating academic libraries into robust, automated pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
A-level Mathematics Physics Further Maths Business Studies, A-level Mathematics Physics Further Maths Business Studies at Helena Romanes Sixth Form
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Physics at Imperial College London
Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Photonics, Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Photonics at Optoelectronics Research Centre
MPhys Master of Physics Physics, MPhys Master of Physics Physics at University of Southampton
English, Sinhalese