Kaveen Kumarasinghe
Software Engineer at Stripe
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaveen Kumarasinghe is a software engineer based in Seattle with nine years of experience building backend services, developer tools, and AI-powered automation across companies like Stripe, OpenAI, Intuit, Carta, and BlackBerry. He specializes in Python, Java, systems programming, distributed services, and DevOps, and has shipped production systems that enabled multi-step transaction modeling, large-scale monitoring across 10k+ VMs, and a money-routing analyzer for a banking platform. As an OpenAI contractor he built community analytics tools and bots, and his open-source work includes creating the core of a feature-rich GPT-powered Discord bot that blends chat, moderation, summarization, and custom knowledge indexing. He has a practical mix of startup founder experience and enterprise impact—turning complex compliance and revenue problems into reliable, automated services—grounded in a Computer Engineering degree from the University of Waterloo.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Honours Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Honours Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
French, English
Github Skills (7)
asynchronous10
discord-py10
python10
async10
asyncio10
configuration-management9
chatgpt8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Kav-K/GPTDiscord
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
A robust, all-in-one GPT interface for Discord. ChatGPT-style conversations, image generation, AI-moderation, custom indexes/knowledgebase, youtube summarizer, and more!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:148 releases, 139 reviews, 630 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kaveen created the core `bot.py` file and implemented its initial functionality, likely for a Discord bot. The code initializes the bot with Discord-related libraries and functionality, and also includes key configuration settings. The commits show setting up the API keys as well. The implementation of setting a global cooldown timer suggests a focus on user experience and resource management within the bot.
fault-tolerantpythongithub-botdalle2discord
Kav-K/UWHelperBot
May 2020 - Dec 2022
The original university user verification bot for discord for the University of Waterloo
Contributions:1 review, 219 commits, 12 PRs in 2 years 7 months
user-verificationdiscordbotdiscord-botverification-bot
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