Gayan Hewa
Senior Software Engineer at Pulse Loyalty
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolGayan Hewa is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native, backend systems across e-commerce, fleet management, and loyalty platforms. He’s repeatedly taken lead technical roles—driving platform architecture, payments, and large-scale migrations—while shipping pragmatic, testable microservices on AWS, GCP, and Azure. Gayan blends hands-on development (PHP, NodeJS, Ruby) with infrastructure automation and deployment best practices, having led platform teams and built resilient pipelines in fast-moving startups and enterprise teams. He also runs a loyalty-focused side venture, Pulse Loyalty, showing entrepreneurial initiative alongside corporate engineering. Based in Sydney and bridging Sri Lankan and Australian roots, he’s known for mentoring teams, simplifying complex workflows, and preferring practical, high-performance solutions over theoretical designs.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BIT Infromation Technology, BIT Infromation Technology at University of ColomboMBCS Computing, MBCS Computing at BCS, The Chartered Institute for ITG.C.E Advance Level Mathematics, G.C.E Advance Level Mathematics at D. S. Senanayake College
English, Sinhalese, Tamil, Malay
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
gayanhewa/vscode-find-all-references
Jul 2017 - Sep 2018
Visual Studio Code Extension to Find All References in a Project
Contributions:4 releases, 33 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 2 months
visual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensionvisual-studio-code-extensionvisual-studio
gayanhewa/gayanhewa.github.io
Jul 2014 - Nov 2018
Contributions:20 commits, 13 pushes in 4 years 4 months
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