Nimesha Buddhika
Software Engineer at Cisco
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolNimesha Buddhika is a backend-focused software engineer with 8 years of experience designing and leading resilient, secure, cloud-native distributed systems for enterprises and startups. He has led backend teams and architected event-driven, multi-tenant platforms using Go, Java, and Python, deployed across Azure, AWS, and Kubernetes, with strong expertise in Kafka, RabbitMQ, Terraform, and observability stacks like Prometheus/Grafana. At Eaton he owned authN/authZ and high-throughput job pipelines, and during a recent consulting sabbatical he built and open-sourced a “Resilient Payment Processor” that demonstrates real-time AI fraud detection and 50k+ jobs/min throughput. He combines hands-on implementation with mentoring and process improvements—driving CI/CD, testing standards, and clear documentation to ensure continuity. Based in Ottawa, he’s seeking roles where he can lead backend initiatives and convert complex architectures into scalable, team-friendly systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate degree, Network security, Postgraduate degree, Network security at The University of WinnipegBachelor of Science (B.Sc), Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc), Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management at University of MoratuwaRoyal College PolonnaruwaAdvanced Business Solution Developer, Computer Programming, Vendor/Product Certification, Advanced Business Solution Developer, Computer Programming, Vendor/Product Certification at Institute of Java and Software Engineering (IJSE)
English, Sinhalese
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Github Skills (13)
chatbot10
cli9
tensorflow9
rest9
machine-learning9
rest-api9
css9
svg8
aws-sdk8
aws-sdk-js-v38
aws7
nodejs6
javascript6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nimeshabuddhika/Tensorflow-Chatbot
Jan 2018 - Apr 2022
Tensorflow chatbot which is capable of interacting with user through Rest Api, Web interface, GUI and CLI.
Contributions:15 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
chatbotclirestrest-apitensorflow
nimeshabuddhika/resilient-payment-processor
Oct 2025 - Dec 2025
ResilientJobGo is an open-source project showcasing a distributed job processing system using microservices, designed to demonstrate engineering expertise in scalable, reliable, and maintainable event-driven architectures.
Contributions:6 PRs, 41 pushes, 13 branches in 1 month
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