Summary
Dayan Perera is a full-stack software engineer with 9 years of professional experience building and modernizing web applications, currently driving Digital Frameworks at JPMorgan Chase in the San Francisco Bay Area. He brings deep hands-on expertise in JavaScript, React, Node.js, Express/KOA, and databases (MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres), paired with front-end skills in HTML/CSS/SASS and performance-focused optimizations. Dayan has a track record of leading offshore teams and maintaining legacy systems—transforming ColdFusion backends and long-running products into more maintainable modern stacks. A Hack Reactor and UC Berkeley Extension alumnus with a physics and mathematics background, he combines disciplined problem-solving with continual self-directed learning to stay current with emerging web technologies. Notably, he balances enterprise-scale delivery at JPMorgan with practical, SEO- and performance-driven improvements honed over a decade of commercial web development.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Sofware Engineering Immersive, Advanced Sofware Engineering Immersive at Hack Reactor
Bachelor's degree, Physics & Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Physics & Mathematics at University of Colombo
Full Stack Web Developement Program, Responsive Full Stack Web Application Development, Full Stack Web Developement Program, Responsive Full Stack Web Application Development at UC Berkeley Extension