Praneeth Peiris
Backend Software Engineering Lead at trivago
Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolPraneeth Peiris is a Backend Software Engineering Lead with 12 years of experience building and operating large-scale image and AI content systems, currently leading Visual & AI Content at trivago from Düsseldorf. He combines hands-on backend engineering (Python, Kubernetes, GCP/AWS, Beam/Dataflow) with people leadership—hiring, mentoring, performance management and technical design moderation—to deliver reliable image delivery, tagging, quality assessment and deduplication pipelines. He led a major GCP migration and established team-wide quality standards and ways of working to smooth cross-functional projects and vendor integrations like CDNs and asset management services. Comfortable in both high-performance C++ systems and modern cloud-native stacks, he has a history in finance tech, freelance development and community leadership roles (IEEE, TechWire.lk) that reflect a broad technical and mentoring footprint. Motivated by using technology to improve life for all living beings, he blends product-minded engineering with operational ownership to move AI-driven visual experiences into production.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Colombo School of ComputingHigher Education O/L & A/L, Higher Education O/L & A/L at Mahanama College ColomboBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Umeå University
English, Sinhalese
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Github Skills (99)
download-file10
bandwidth10
download-manager9
places-autocomplete9
google-places9
google-places-autocomplete9
queue8
internet8
webservice8
aws-lambda8
slack-bot7
debezium7
autocomplete7
azure-functions7
google-maps7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gnomezgrave/qt-auto-translator
Apr 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
gnomezgrave/A-Star
Oct 2013 - Apr 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes in 4 years 6 months
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