Summary
Dulshan Ratnayake is an Associate Lead Data Engineer with nine years of experience building and migrating large-scale ETL/ELT pipelines across cloud platforms, currently leading data engineering efforts at Acuity Knowledge Partners from Sri Lanka. Certified in Databricks and Kubernetes, he has practical expertise modernizing Airflow workflows into BigQuery- and Snowflake-driven ELT architectures while reducing reliance on Spark and improving developer UX through code-free DAG tooling. His background spans on-prem and cloud stacks (EMR, Snowflake, GCP, AWS) and multiple databases (Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB), with hands-on work in secrets management, custom Airflow operators, and incremental loaders. Outside production engineering he applied machine learning to healthcare—presenting a neural-net based leprosy diagnosis paper at ILC 2022—showing a blend of applied research and production-grade delivery.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE (Hons) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE (Hons) Software Engineering at University of Westminster
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Informatics Institute of Technology
Lyceum International School Nugegoda
English, Sinhala, French