Lasantha Kularatne
Principal Platform Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolLasantha Kularatne is a Principal Platform Engineer with 20+ years of experience building reliable, scalable backend systems and driving enterprise AI/ML adoption. Based in Austin, he led organization-wide initiatives at Expedia Group that achieved 100% Copilot adoption across 100+ engineers, delivered 99.9% platform availability through standardized SLOs, and produced a patent-pending GenAI tool (STAR) for automated root cause analysis. He combines hands-on engineering—reducing developer context-switching by 80% and rollback times by over 50%—with mentoring that has promoted multiple engineers to senior and principal levels. His background spans travel tech, big data, and production ML, and he’s known for turning operational rigor into measurable developer productivity gains. An early career foundation in large-scale systems and a company-wide AWS Operational Readiness Review design highlight his blend of deep technical craft and cross-organizational influence.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering, B.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering at University of MoratuwaGCE Advanced Level, Mathematics, GCE Advanced Level, Mathematics at Royal College, Colombo 07
English, Sinhalese
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Github Skills (99)
dependency-analysis10
bytecode10
aws-lambda10
dependency-graph10
serverless-framework10
nodejs10
service-level-agreement9
monitoring9
lambda9
serverless-applications9
capacity-planning9
incident-management9
command-line-interface9
azure-functions9
parser9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ExpediaGroup/jarviz
Mar 2020 - Apr 2022
Jarviz is dependency analysis and visualization tool designed for Java applications
Contributions:6 releases, 10 reviews, 153 commits in 2 years 2 months
dependency-graphjarvizoss-portal-featuredbytecodejava-applications
lasanthak/Mandelbrot-Kotlin
Apr 2019 - Jan 2025
Contributions:7 PRs, 52 pushes, 9 branches in 5 years 10 months
kotlinkotlin-multiplatformmandelbrot
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