Summary
Sithum Bopitiya is a backend-focused engineer with 9 years of software experience and 5+ years building production fintech systems in Go, currently designing and deploying integrated financial and POS solutions from Kuala Lumpur. He has led secure, full-cycle integrations with major POS platforms and payment gateways across multiple regions, pairing event-driven architectures (Azure Service Bus, Kafka) with pragmatic caching and CI/CD practices. Comfortable across databases and infra—MongoDB, Redis, AKS/GKE, and GitLab/GitHub pipelines—he brings hands-on DevOps and performance testing experience from early roles. A self-described Linux lover and Gopher, he blends systems-level curiosity (WASM exposure) with product-minded delivery, and is pursuing further specialization in computer software engineering at the University of Malaya.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PHYSICAL SCIENCES, 13, PHYSICAL SCIENCES, 13 at Taxila Central College
5, 5 at Taxila Kanista Vidyalaya
BSc (Hons) in Information Technology Specialising in Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, BSc (Hons) in Information Technology Specialising in Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at SLIIT
Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at University of Malaya
Sinhalese, English