Charith Amarasinghe
Platform Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCharith Amarasinghe is a Platform Engineer based in London with 13 years of experience building reliable, developer-focused infrastructure across startups and product teams. He has moved from founding and leading engineering at a rural energy startup to hands-on platform and software engineering roles at Citymapper, Cosmos Video and now Railway, blending product sensibility with systems-level thinking. His background includes embedded/RTOS exposure from Samsung and end-to-end web and cloud platforms, giving him a rare mix of low-level and cloud-native experience. Trained at Imperial College London (MEng, MSc), he brings entrepreneurial grit and pragmatic engineering—often surfacing operational improvements that enable faster developer feedback loops.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, MEng at Imperial College London
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Github Skills (31)
parser10
router10
vector10
railway10
pipeline10
docker-image9
observability9
monitoring9
docker9
cli9
high-performance9
stream-processing9
rust9
shell9
zsh8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
char8/janus-gateway
Dec 2021 - May 2022
Janus WebRTC Server
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 4 months
webrtc-serverjanus-gatewaywebrtcserverjanus
char8/path_fixer
Nov 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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