Isuru Pathirana
Technical Specialist I, Software Engineering Wiley at Virtusa
Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolIsuru Pathirana is a software engineer with nine years of experience building scalable, reliable back-end systems and end-to-end platforms, currently serving as a Technical Specialist at Wiley (now part of Virtusa). He leads delivery and operational readiness for mission-critical services, modernizing legacy systems (including Java 17 migrations) and driving order and price management transformations with minimal downtime. Skilled across Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Docker, AWS, and React, he pairs hands-on implementation with technical leadership—mentoring teams, owning tech-debt backlogs, and reducing MTTR through agentic AI and tool integrations. His background includes introducing CI/CD, observability, and data migration practices across multiple enterprises, and he’s actively sharing learnings on distributed systems via his engineering blog. Based in Sri Lanka, he blends pragmatic engineering with sustainable design principles and a track record of zero-P1/P2 releases on major projects. Beyond day-to-day delivery, he contributes to open source and experiments with automation that speeds incident triage and release management.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering at Open University of Sri LankaPostgraduate Diploma, Software Engineering, Postgraduate Diploma, Software Engineering at Kingston UniversityFull Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCampComprehensive Master Java Developer (CMJD), Java and Software Engineering, Comprehensive Master Java Developer (CMJD), Java and Software Engineering at Institute of Java & Software EngineeringG. C. E. Advanced Level, Mathematics, G. C. E. Advanced Level, Mathematics at Mahinda College, Galle
English, Sinhalese
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Github Skills (13)
ios6
docker6
onfocus6
laravel6
ffmpeg6
jquery6
iphone6
google-maps6
dockerfile6
chrome5
chrome-extension5
statistics5
javascript4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
isuru4lk/corona_tracker
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
COVID-19 Statistics Sri Lanka / Global Chrome Extension
Contributions:4 releases, 26 commits, 11 PRs in 8 days
statisticsjavascriptchromesrichrome-extension
reliefsupports/reliefsupports.org-v1
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Relief Supports is an open source project to support volunteers who working in relief activities.
Contributions:7 comments in 2 days
activitiesopen-source-projectreliefvolunteers
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