Rifhan Akram
Co-Founder Senior Technical Lead at Contracting AS
Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolRifhan Akram is a Co-Founder and Senior Technical Lead based in Colombo with 9 years of experience scaling engineering teams and delivering cloud-native, production-grade systems. He has progressed from trainee to leadership roles at 99X and played a hands-on role modernizing legacy .NET platforms into microservices while leading DevOps and migration efforts at Boligmappa. At Corzent he has moved from Technical Lead to Senior Technical Lead and co-founder, combining strategic product thinking with day-to-day engineering execution. Rifhan’s background spans infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, AWS (ECS Fargate, RDS, S3), gRPC, and OpenID/OAuth migrations, demonstrating both backend depth and operational rigor. He’s comfortable switching between code, architecture and cloud automation—equally likely to write a deployment script as to define system boundaries. Known for a pragmatic, delivery-focused approach, he blends startup grit with experience supporting multi-terabyte systems for international customers.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Special Hons, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Special Hons, Computer Software Engineering at SLIIT
English, Sinhalese, Tamil
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (51)
youtube-api9
microservices8
sentiment8
redis-client8
redis8
cloud-computing8
youtube7
aws-lambda7
azure-functions7
aws7
cloud-native7
serverless7
aws-glue6
php-websocket6
lambda6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
99x/youtube-queuing-bot
Oct 2016 - Aug 2017
A full screen web app to play youtube playlist videos (will be used for the RPI)
Contributions:24 commits, 3 PRs, 1 push in 10 months
youtubebotmicrosoft-bot-frameworkyoutube-api
rifhanakram/sinhala-sentiment-analyser
Sep 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:28 commits, 12 PRs, 20 pushes in 8 months
nlpsentimentsvm
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