Janaka Abeywardhana
Co-Founder at Seedcamp
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJanaka Abeywardhana is a product and technology leader with 11+ years of hands-on experience building cloud-native platforms, developer tools, and SaaS products, and currently co-founding Docq.AI and FABR. He combines strategic product leadership with deep engineering chops—shipping .NET Core + Docker microservices, migrating entire on-prem stacks to cloud, and cutting video processing costs and latency through pragmatic optimisations. At Hudl and TrueLayer he drove platform productivity improvements and globalisation scalability, and he’s contributed to the official vscode-csharp repo by improving solution and launch target handling. Comfortable toggling between C-suite strategy and code-level fixes, he focuses on developer experience, continuous delivery and platform engineering to accelerate teams. Based in the UK, he’s an early VoIP adopter and mentor to startups, blending operational pragmatism with a curiosity for how things work.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
A-Level, Computing, Maths, and Physics, A-Level, Computing, Maths, and Physics at Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Surrey
English, Sinhala
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
net10
dotnet10
vscode-extension10
asp-net10
omnisharp10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
typescript9
configuration-management9
typescript-types9
typescripts9
fileio8
file-operations8
filesystem8
chef-infra6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/vscode-csharp
Dec 2017 - Jul 2018
Official C# support for Visual Studio Code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 32 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Janaka primarily contributed to enhancing the C# support for Visual Studio Code, indicated by the `dotnet/vscode-csharp` repository. They implemented features to manage solution files, allowing users to specify a default solution in settings.json and improving the way launch targets are determined. Their work involved modifying core files like `launcher.ts`, `options.ts`, and `server.ts` to integrate the new functionality and refactor existing logic.
dotnetvisual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensionomnisharp
janaka/blog-janaka-dev
Mar 2020 - Mar 2025
Blog at janaka.dev
Contributions:3 reviews, 68 PRs, 157 pushes in 5 years
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