Summary
Dhananjaya Karandana is an Enterprise Solutions Architect with 12 years of experience designing and delivering cloud-native solutions across healthcare, insurance, hospitality, and manufacturing. He combines hands-on software development skills (NodeJS, TypeScript, React, GraphQL, PHP) with practical AWS and DevOps expertise (Jenkins, CodePipeline, ArgoCD, Crossplane) to lead seamless legacy-to-cloud migrations and mission-critical rollouts. Known for enforcing strong architecture and coding standards, he has repeatedly optimized relational and NoSQL designs and established CI/CD practices that improved delivery quality. An MSc graduate specializing in Enterprise Applications Development who graduated with distinction, he brings both academic rigor and classroom teaching experience to mentoring engineering teams. Less obvious: he balances deep frontend framework experience and accessibility work with system-level deployment and infrastructure automation, making him effective across the full delivery stack.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ananda College - Colombo 10
Mahinda Vidyalaya - Ratnapura
MSc – Master of Science in Information Technology, Specializing in Enterprise Applications Development, MSc – Master of Science in Information Technology, Specializing in Enterprise Applications Development at SLIIT