Malinga Perera
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMalinga Perera is a software engineer and researcher with 10 years of experience building large-scale data and network automation systems, currently shaping network health and remediation platforms at AWS. He holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne on reinforcement learning for self-tuning database physical design and has led database engineering efforts that earned industry recognition at Sysco Labs. Equally at home in research and production, he has developed privacy-preserving scripting tools and experiment platforms for cognitive science projects, demonstrating a knack for turning theoretical ideas into robust software. A seasoned public speaker and community leader, he has held executive roles in university and professional clubs, helping translate complex technical work into accessible narratives. Malinga’s background blends deep database and ML research with hands-on engineering for automated, operationally resilient systems across global infrastructures.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc. Eng (Hons), Computer Science and Engineering, BSc. Eng (Hons), Computer Science and Engineering at University of MoratuwaO/L, A/L, Primary and Secondary Education, O/L, A/L, Primary and Secondary Education at Maris Stella College NegomboThe University of Melbourne
English, Sinhalese
Github Skills (15)
sink8
benchmark7
daemon7
avro6
maxwell6
producer6
database5
cdc5
benchmarking5
json5
kafka4
kafka-producer4
mysql4
scala4
dbms1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
complex-human-data-hub/Private
Feb 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:1 release, 72 PRs, 227 pushes in 1 year 9 months
malingaperera/HMAB
Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:20 commits, 10 pushes in 8 days
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