Buddhima Amarathunga
Software Engineer at SYOS Aerospace
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolBuddhima Amarathunga is a software engineer and PhD candidate with nearly a decade of programming experience and over two years delivering production-grade systems across military simulation, logistics, and UAV research. He brings full-stack fluency in Java, C++, Python and modern JavaScript frameworks, and practical cloud and data-engineering experience with AWS/GCP and Snowflake. His research and hands-on work span resource-constrained distributed systems and IoT—especially LoRa/NB-IoT/Wi-SUN—and include building resilient UAV swarm protocols and custom visualizers for real-world experiments. He pairs embedded C++ (RTOS, GPS, Bluetooth, PID) and microcontroller work (Arduino/ESP32) with data tooling in Pandas, SciPy and D3, enabling end-to-end sensor-to-insight pipelines. Known for introducing CI/CD, documentation, and best practices in academic and industry teams, he’s also exploring resource-efficient AI, AI agents and modern languages like Go. Based in Wellington, NZ, he blends rigorous research thinking with a pragmatic focus on deployable, maintainable systems.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of PeradeniyaSt. joseph's College, Colombo 10Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Candidate) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Candidate) Computer Science at Victoria University of WellingtonInformation Technology, Information Technology at SLIIT
Github Skills (2)
react3
nextjs2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bsachinthana/aurudu-kreeda
Apr 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:9 PRs, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
bsachinthana/CSUP-webapp
Feb 2020 - Apr 2020
Website of the Computer Society, University of Peradeniya
Contributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 months
university-societyreactnextjs
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