Rukshani Athapathu
PhD Candidate
United States
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Top SchoolRukshani Athapathu is a PhD candidate at UC San Diego with 11 years of software engineering and research experience spanning industry and academia. She has progressed from hands-on programming roles to senior engineering and technical lead positions at firms like WSO2 and eBuilder, and served as a research scholar at Carnegie Mellon University before transitioning to doctoral research. Her background combines advanced software engineering (MSc, Distinction) and first-class IT undergraduate training with practical delivery of enterprise systems and research-driven projects. Comfortable bridging theory and production, she brings both deep engineering rigor and academic curiosity to distributed systems and software architecture problems. Outside formal profiles she shares technical perspectives on Medium, signaling an interest in communicating engineering ideas to broader developer audiences.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, First Class Honours, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, First Class Honours at Middlesex UniversityMaster of Science (MSc) in Advanced Software Engineering, Distinction, Master of Science (MSc) in Advanced Software Engineering, Distinction at University of Westminster
Github Skills (114)
programming-language10
http10
websocket10
interpreter10
http-client10
cloud-native10
non-blocking10
youtube10
blocking10
rest10
compiler10
mime10
application-framework10
oauth2-client10
wso210
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
arukshani/ballerina
Sep 2017 - Jan 2020
Ballerina is a new programming language for integration built on a sequence diagram metaphor.
Contributions:8 PRs, 790 pushes, 185 branches in 2 years 4 months
sequencesequence-diagramballerinacompilerprogramming-language
arukshani/rotor-xdp
Mar 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:409 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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