Dimitri Wijesinghe
Senior Software Engineer Technical Lead at Sweetwater
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDimitri Wijesinghe is a Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead based in New York with 12 years of experience building reliable, high-throughput systems across retail, healthcare, nonprofit, and scientific research. He specializes in Python and PHP, has led teams and projects from architecture through delivery, and recently improved payment pipelines at scale for a $1B+ retailer. Notable work includes leading Crisis Text Line’s webchat to broaden mental-health access and architecting client and lab management platforms for early cancer detection at Freenome. Dimitri blends hands-on engineering—automating legacy refactors and productionizing ML deployments—with team coaching and process improvements like better sprint retrospectives. He thrives in distributed, remote teams and often builds custom developer tools and testing frameworks to raise engineering velocity. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who pairs technical depth with empathy and cross-functional collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Informatics, Bachelor's degree, Informatics at The University of EdinburghBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Vassar CollegeStuyvesant High School
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Github Skills (10)
lua8
neovim-plugin7
vim7
neovim7
nvim6
python6
dashboard2
api1
wrapper1
nodejs1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dwijesinghe/viMax
Jul 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 4 years 9 months
dwijesinghe/FileRefresh
May 2014 - Apr 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 1 push in 7 years
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