Summary
Paul Senatillaka is a senior software engineer with 14+ years building scalable enterprise systems, currently contributing to CrowdStrike’s cloud-native workload protection efforts. He has deep experience in backend platforms, enterprise integrations, ETL and big-data pipelines, and has shipped core features for KAYAK’s ads management platform including metric frameworks, budget optimization and forecasting driven by data science models. Paul led observability and security initiatives—implementing company-wide monitoring dashboards and patching critical API vulnerabilities—and champions OpenAPI standards for clearer API design. He is comfortable across Java, C#, .NET, JavaScript and Python, and has a track record of turning research and R&D prototypes into sold products on ServiceNow and other SaaS platforms. Based in Asheville, NC, he blends hands-on engineering with mentoring and cross-team advocacy, often taking small teams from greenfield design to reliable production at scale. A practical systems thinker, he’s equally at home optimizing ETL throughput or instrumenting complex distributed systems for early fault detection.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
UMass Lowell
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at UMass Boston
English, Portuguese