Summary
Kalana Achintha is a Senior Software Engineer with 7 years of experience building Java/Spring Boot microservices and delivering enterprise-grade systems across retail, hospitality, education, and analytics domains. He has designed and scaled high-throughput platforms—most recently a partner billing engine processing 100M+ monthly transactions and automating 10M+ monthly retail transactions—improving availability and cutting reconciliation effort by 75%. Skilled in event-driven architectures, Kafka, Docker, AWS, and diverse databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Couchbase, Elasticsearch), he drives end-to-end delivery from requirements and architecture to CI/CD and production support. A proven mentor and reviewer, Kalana routinely leads code reviews and coaches engineers while maintaining 99.8% availability on critical sync modules. International project exposure (UK, US, Denmark, Thailand) and hands-on customer training underscore his ability to bridge technical solutions with operational needs. He combines a First-Class Honours degree in Software Engineering with a track record of converting legacy systems into maintainable, high-performance microservices.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Software Engineering, First-Class Honours, Bachelor of Engineering, Software Engineering, First-Class Honours at University of Westminster