Summary
Chamara Ratnayake is an engineering manager based in Sydney with nine years of experience building and leading product teams at Canva, progressing from associate engineer to manager and returning to hands-on development when needed. He has led the Print Fulfilment team and blends practical software craftsmanship with team leadership, shipping backend and infrastructure work across several roles. Early internships gave him solid grounding in DevOps and full-stack tooling (Terraform, Docker, ASP.NET/C#, SQL), which informs his pragmatic approach to reliable delivery. Chamara is comfortable switching between management and coding, favoring measurable improvements to systems and processes. He holds a conjoint BE/BCom in Software Engineering from the University of Auckland and brings a quietly curious, get-things-done mindset to complex engineering problems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) and Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) Conjoint Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) and Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) Conjoint Software Engineering at University of Auckland