Dasith Wijesiriwardena
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolDasith Wijesiriwardena is a Principal Software Engineer based in Melbourne with roughly two decades of experience in Microsoft technologies and a ten-year track record in senior engineering and consulting roles. He specializes in designing cloud-native, distributed systems—converting monoliths into modular services, applying event sourcing/CQRS, and building event-driven serverless and containerized solutions on Azure and AWS. Comfortable across the stack, Dasith codes in C#, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript and more, and regularly leverages Kubernetes, Dapr, Tye, GitOps and Terraform/Bicep for production-grade deployments. He combines hands-on delivery with solution architecture, Agile practices and a strong emphasis on maintainable design and scalability. An active speaker and blogger (dasith.me), he brings practical edge-focused experience running intelligent workloads on Kubernetes at the edge—an area he’s currently focused on.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MASTER INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, MASTER INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY at Swinburne University of TechnologyBSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at SLIITAdvanced Level Mathematics, Advanced Level Mathematics at D.S.Senenayake College, Colombo 07
English, Sinhalese
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Github Skills (200)
nuget10
vulnerability-scanners10
windows10
microsoft-azure10
security10
utterances10
windows-explorer10
attestation10
extensible10
netcore10
easyauth10
hangfire10
algolia10
dotnet10
ruler10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
dasiths/NEasyAuthMiddleware
Apr 2019 - May 2021
Azure App Service Authentication (EasyAuth) middleware for ASP.NET CORE with fully customizable components and support for local debugging
Contributions:9 reviews, 23 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years
authentication-serviceazure-app-servicelocal-debuggingaspauthentication
dasiths/dasiths.github.io
Oct 2018 - Jun 2024
:triangular_ruler: Jekyll theme for personal sites, blogs, and portfolios. Two-columns and extremely flexible.
Contributions:321 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 9 months
rulertwo-columnssitesportfoliosjekyll
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