Kanishka De Silva
Software Engineering Consultant at VirusTotal
Gothenburg, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolKanishka De Silva is a software engineering consultant based in Gothenburg with 12+ years designing and delivering high-performance enterprise and integration solutions across automotive and e‑invoice ecosystems. Currently consulting for Volvo Cars and doWhile, he blends hands-on development with system architecture, devops guidance, and team mentoring rooted in roles from senior engineer to associate architect. His background includes building protocol-heavy integrations (AS2, PEPPOL, SOAP, SFTP) and scaling microservices alongside monoliths for Northern European customers. A long-term contributor to VirusTotal, he brings practical security-aware instincts to application design — a less obvious strength that complements his integration expertise. Educated in software engineering (B.Sc. Hons), he’s known for pragmatic system reviews and lifting code quality while coaching teams to adopt better practices.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Physical Science (2007 A/L), Physical Science (2007 A/L) at Richmond CollegeB.Sc. Special(Hons) in IT (specializing in Software Engineering), Computer Software Engineering, 3.21 (Second class lower), B.Sc. Special(Hons) in IT (specializing in Software Engineering), Computer Software Engineering, 3.21 (Second class lower) at SLIIT
Github Skills (30)
edelivery10
peppol10
reactive9
java9
access-point8
cloud-native8
api8
kubernetes8
security7
quarkus7
rcpp6
retrofit5
chrome5
hsts5
testing5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kdkanishka/httpduck
Dec 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:55 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
kdkanishka/DockerTechTalk
Mar 2015 - Jul 2021
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
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