Summary
Sabesan Sathananthan is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building cloud-native microservices and single-page applications, currently at Sysco LABS Sri Lanka and co-founding Nilavitech. Grounded in an MSc and BSc from the University of Moratuwa, he specializes in Java Spring backends, Node.js BFFs, React frontends, and AWS serverless deployments with a strong emphasis on performance, security and code quality. His journey from a remote village and a first Pentium 3 laptop to leading cross-country engineering collaborations gives him a practical resilience and curiosity for solving real-world problems. He also writes for Towards Data Science and contributes to developer communities, pairing technical craft with clear communication and public-speaking experience from Toastmasters.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MSc in Computer Science, Software Architecture, MSc in Computer Science, Software Architecture at University of Moratuwa
Grade 5 Scholarship, Primary, 4-5, Grade 5 Scholarship, Primary, 4-5 at Jaffna Hindu primary School
Primary, 1-3, Primary, 1-3 at J/Pannagam Meihandan Maha Vidyalayam
GCE Advanced Level, Combined Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, 6-13, GCE Advanced Level, Combined Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, 6-13 at Jaffna Hindu College
English, Tamil, Sinhala