Sudaraka Jayathilaka is a pragmatic software engineer with 10 years of experience building cloud-native systems and APIs, now contributing at Apple after senior engineering roles at Zendesk and Circles.Life. He excels in backend engineering with a strong command of Go, Kubernetes, MongoDB, Redis and event-driven architectures, and has led teams to cut onboarding and incident times significantly while launching new platforms in international markets. His background includes full-stack and open-source work—authoring Discourse plugins and contributing to Eclipse CHE—reflecting a taste for developer tooling and FOSS. Comfortable turning research ideas into production (computer vision internships and Google Summer of Code projects), he blends solid CS fundamentals with hands-on delivery across distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc.) Engineering (Hons) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc.) Engineering (Hons) Computer Science and Engineering at University of Moratuwa
Contributions:1 release, 17 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 4 months
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