Dasun Dissanayake is a Technical Lead with nine years of hands-on experience building web applications and leading engineering teams at EIGHT25MEDIA and Arimac. He combines practical expertise in PHP, Laravel and Oracle databases with a strong academic foundation (MSc in Information Technology from University of Colombo) and experience guest lecturing at Sri Lankan universities. Known for progressing from trainee PHP developer to technical lead, he brings both deep implementation skills and people leadership—mentoring, architecture reviews and delivery oversight. Based in Sri Lanka, he frequently bridges industry and academia, translating research-informed practices into production systems. Colleagues value his pragmatic problem-solving and steady progression through increasingly senior technical roles.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mathematics and Computer Science, Secound class lower division, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mathematics and Computer Science, Secound class lower division at University of Ruhuna
Master of Science (MSc), Information Technology, Master of Science (MSc), Information Technology at University of Colombo
Contributions:6 releases, 8 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 2 months
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Dasun Dissanayake - Technical Lead at EIGHT25MEDIA