Nayana Hettiarachchi
Chief Technology Officer at Afford-X
Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
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Top SchoolNayana Hettiarachchi is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with over 20 years in software development and more than a decade leading engineering teams across Southeast Asia. She combines hands-on expertise in Java, Scala, Python, PHP and JavaScript with deep experience deploying cloud-native systems on AWS and Kubernetes, and strong DevOps/CI-CD skills across Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions. Her career spans product-focused roles at Agoda and Gojek to engineering leadership at Central Tech and startups, where she has migrated monoliths to microservices and operated high-throughput inventory and fintech systems. Nayana is an Agile advocate and people leader who has grown and mentored teams from three to twenty while instituting scalable processes and tooling. She also contributes to open-source projects and builds experimental ML/video analysis tooling using cloud APIs, signaling a continuous drive to blend research and production engineering. Based in Bangkok, she brings a pragmatic, delivery-oriented approach to using technology for strategic business growth.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc, IT, Bsc, IT at Southern New Hampshire UniversityHigh School Diploma, Pure & Applied Mathematics, High School Diploma, Pure & Applied Mathematics at Royal College
English, Sinhalese, Thai, Tamil
Stackoverflow
13,493reputation
1.7mreached
766answers
34questions
mysql
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jquery
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Github Skills (200)
command-line-tool10
api10
affiliates10
php10
command-line10
exchange10
kubernetes10
spring-boot10
spring10
ecommerce10
trading10
adobe10
charts10
cli10
sink10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
devzer01/cloudforcehr-chrome
Feb 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:2 releases, 29 commits, 30 pushes in 3 months
gemscorp/cunm
May 2014 - May 2016
Contributions:158 commits, 50 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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