Summary
Prasad Lakshan is a Senior Software Engineer with five years of hands-on experience building full-stack, cloud-native applications and leading product development at a startup he co-founded. He blends strong frontend skills in React/Next.js and TypeScript with backend expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Node/Express, and serverless AWS architectures, emphasizing TDD and CI/CD automation. Prasad has driven reliability and incident resolution for enterprise financial systems, architected microservices and event-driven solutions, and implemented cost-effective cloud infrastructure using CDK, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes. As an AWS Community Builder and technical writer, he translates complex cloud concepts into clear guidance while contributing to team knowledge bases and developer workflows. Based in Galle, Sri Lanka, he pairs startup grit—having shipped multiple products like job and event management platforms—with production-grade support experience at IFS and DirectFN. He’s particularly strong at bridging customer-facing incident response with long-term architectural fixes, turning outages into lasting improvements.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Colombo School of Computing
G.C.E. Advanced Level Physical Science Stream(2018), G.C.E. Advanced Level Physical Science Stream(2018) at St. Aloysius' College
English, Sinhala