Chin Godawita
Engineering Team Lead at Kasada
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolChin Godawita is an engineering team lead based in Sydney with 11 years of experience building and operating secure, scalable backend systems. Currently leading engineering at Kasada, he blends hands‑on software development with people leadership and a strong operational focus. Previously as Lead Developer at Lending Works he modernised infrastructure—containerising services onto Kubernetes, codifying stacks with Terraform/CloudFormation, and breaking a monolith into microservices to support rapid growth. His background spans Node.js/Typescript, PHP (Laravel), Python and React, plus deep DevOps and CI/CD experience, reflecting a full‑lifecycle approach to reliability and delivery. As a former technical co-founder he also brings product instincts and low‑level systems experience (C/C++) from IoT work, which helps him bridge business needs and complex engineering tradeoffs.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
Github Skills (100)
docker-machine10
whenever10
typescript-definitions10
probot10
typescript10
authenticate10
dts10
branches10
editor9
continuous-testing9
credentials9
dockerfile9
docker-container9
visual-studio9
auth9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
chinthakagodawita/docker-hat
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:58 commits, 104 pushes, 16 branches in 1 month
lendingworks/docker-containers
Jan 2018 - Feb 2021
Docker containers used by the Lending Works platform, optimised for Kubernetes
Contributions:2 reviews, 66 PRs, 82 pushes in 3 years 1 month
containersseccomppodmandockerkubernetes
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