Dhanushka Samarakoon
Director Of Technology Strategy & Planning (Associate Professor)
Miami, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolDhanushka Samarakoon is a technology leader and associate professor with 14 years of experience bridging software engineering, architecture, and higher education technology strategy. Currently Director of Technology Strategy & Planning at the University of Miami, he oversees client systems, web and application development, and enterprise applications while shaping long-term IT strategy and budgets. He brings hands-on experience from multinational clients like Siemens Energy and Xerox and deep expertise across databases (Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, Postgres) and languages including C#, VB.NET, and PHP. Known for building processes and introducing tooling to scale teams and manage complex project portfolios, he combines academic insight with pragmatic product delivery. His background in library and information science informs a user-centered approach to web, research guide, and library cloud services that often goes beyond typical enterprise IT thinking.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Library & Information Science - MLIS Leadership and Administration, Master of Library & Information Science - MLIS Leadership and Administration at Emporia State UniversityBachelor of IT Information Technology, Bachelor of IT Information Technology at University of Colombo School of ComputingB.Sc (Hon) Information Technology, B.Sc (Hon) Information Technology at Sri Lanka Institute of Information TechnologyElementry to High School, Elementry to High School at Mahanama College
English, Sinhalese
Github Skills (4)
php7
symfony7
bundle6
symfony-bundle5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
marriott-library/sheeko-vagrant
Jul 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 3 months
project-sheeko/project-sheeko.github.io
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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