Gayashan Amarasinghe
Senior Data Engineer
Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolGayashan Amarasinghe is a Senior Data Engineer based in Victoria, Australia with 14 years of experience bridging academia and industry, specialising in energy markets, cloud platforms and data engineering. He progressed from academic roles including a PhD and lecturing at the University of Moratuwa to applied engineering positions at RMIT and ZEN Energy, where he now leads data initiatives for energy systems. His background blends research rigor with practical software delivery—he’s built everything from Android UIs for course projects to production data platforms—giving him a rare ability to translate complex models into operational pipelines. Known for mentoring and teaching early in his career, he brings strong technical leadership and a methodical approach to observability, data quality and cloud-native architecture. Colleagues appreciate that he combines deep domain knowledge of energy markets with hands-on coding discipline, making him effective at both strategy and implementation.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc. Eng. (Hons.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bsc. Eng. (Hons.) Computer Science and Engineering at University of MoratuwaThe University of MelbournePhysical Science Stream Mathematics, Physical Science Stream Mathematics at Royal College Colombo
Sinhalese, English
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Github Skills (17)
mobile-development10
ui-design10
finance-management10
java10
javas10
cost-management10
android10
android-fragments9
api-design8
socket6
boot6
css6
jquery6
canvas6
javascript6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
GayashanNA/SimpleExpenseManager
Dec 2015 - Jun 2022
This is an android based basic expense manager application which will be used as a lab assignment for CS3042 - Database Systems course module.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:31 commits, 3 PRs, 9 pushes in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Gayashan focused on developing the user interface and core functionality of an Android-based expense manager application. They implemented fragment views, including the manage expenses, add account, and expense logs screens. The user also added essential API classes for managing accounts and transactions, along with in-memory implementations for data storage and retrieval. These commits indicate a focus on building the application's front-end and the underlying data management logic.
application-managerexpenseroomandroiddatabase-systems
GayashanNA/ECSNeT
Nov 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:14 commits, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
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