Sankeerthan Kasilingam
Associate Technical Lead
Northern Province, Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolSankeerthan Kasilingam is an Associate Technical Lead with eight years of experience building Java and cloud-native web applications at WSO2, where he progressed from Software Engineer to leadership. He blends backend expertise in Java, Spring and Go with front-end skills in React/Angular and practical DevOps know-how across Docker, Kubernetes, Nginx and AWS. His domain work spans API and identity management (SAML/OIDC/SSO), enterprise integration and scalable data solutions, informed by earlier MRV and emissions-digitization projects. An active open-source contributor, he has improved test coverage and reliability in the high-profile Apache ShardingSphere project, focusing on distributed and clustered components. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic engineering, balancing robust QA practices with continual experimentation in emerging cloud-native tools. Based in Sri Lanka, he pairs solid academic foundations in computer engineering with a curiosity-driven habit of building and contributing outside work.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at University of Peradeniya
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Github Skills (19)
testing10
java10
javas10
junit10
mockito10
databases9
database9
distributed-database9
middleware8
mysql8
big-data7
sql7
documents6
react6
go6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/shardingsphere
Dec 2021 - Feb 2022
Empowering Data Intelligence with Distributed SQL for Sharding, Scalability, and Security Across All Databases.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:16 reviews, 5 commits, 5 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sankeerthan primarily contributed to the quality assurance and testing aspects of the ShardingSphere project. Their work involved adding and improving unit tests, specifically for features like `DataSourceConfiguration`, `ContextManager`, and `MySQLDataSourcePreparer`. The commits indicate a focus on test case implementation and fixing build failures related to these tests, ensuring the reliability and correctness of the codebase. Additionally, the user added tests for ClusterContextManagerCoordinator, demonstrating involvement in the project's distributed and clustered features.
dbmsrdbmsdatabase-systemmore-featuresbigdata
shankeerthan-kasilingam/online-crowd-funding-application
Oct 2018 - Dec 2020
This is an online crowd-funding application and planned to develop as Micro services.
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
fundingcrowdmicroservicesmicro-services
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