Chamath Wijesekera
Production Engineer at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChamath Wijesekera is a production engineer with 11 years of software and SRE experience, currently contributing to Meta’s Python Language Foundation team from the San Francisco Bay Area. He blends hands-on DevOps and reliability work—optimizing high-throughput services in Go, Rust, and Python—with hardware-minded systems design from his rocket development at Waterloo Rocketry. His track record includes cutting incident resolution times and operating costs at Virtu and Shopify, modernizing cloud infrastructure at startups, and authoring practical training and safety documentation for safety-critical projects. Comfortable across embedded PCB work, backend services, and observability pipelines, he brings a cross-disciplinary Mechatronics background and a penchant for translating complex, safety-sensitive requirements into production-grade automation.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Mechatronics Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Mechatronics Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (55)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
waterloo-rocketry/website-react
Dec 2021 - May 2024
React version of our rocketry website
Contributions:61 reviews, 32 PRs, 69 pushes in 2 years 6 months
reactjsreactrocketry
QuantumManiac/novel-pi-calculator
Jun 2020 - Jun 2024
A hilariously inefficient algorithm to calculate pi using the collisions between two boxes and a wall
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
pythonwallcollisionscalculateboxes
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