Rahul Samaranayake
Software Engineering Consultant at YouTube
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolRahul Samaranayake is a software engineering consultant based in Sydney with nine years of experience building backend systems, platform engineering tools, and data engineering solutions for companies like Zendesk, SafetyCulture and DiUS. He combines hands-on engineering—spanning Java, JS/Node, CI/CD and workflow automation—with a focus on developer productivity and scalable platform services. Parallel to his engineering career he creates long-form content on philosophy, cognitive science and AI via a podcast and newsletter, reflecting a rare blend of technical depth and humanities-driven curiosity. Rahul has shipped production features across web widgets, chatbots and enterprise workflow platforms, and has contributed to open-source tooling around the Genny project. Currently pursuing research in the philosophy of AI, he brings both practical system-building experience and a reflective, research-informed perspective to engineering problems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Research Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, Master of Research Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence at Macquarie UniversityBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Swinburne University of Technology
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Github Skills (35)
consolidation6
keycloak6
ansible-collections6
nodejs5
java5
testing5
javascript4
protractor4
puppeteer4
compose4
server4
react4
automation3
dokku3
docker3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
OutcomeLife/prj_mentormatch
Jan 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:9 reviews, 17 PRs, 531 pushes in 1 year
TRahulSam1997/Effective-Java-Joshua-Bloch
Jul 2022 - Nov 2024
Contributions:182 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
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