Suran Jayathilaka
Senior Software Engineer at Featurespace
Uttlesford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSuran Jayathilaka is a senior Java full‑stack engineer with nearly two decades of software experience and a Master's in Computer Science, known for building high‑volume, resilient services and data presentation pipelines. He has led full‑stack delivery at EMBL‑EBI for the ENA, spanning Spring Boot microservices, SQL/NoSQL indexing, web apps and DevOps, and more recently holds senior engineering roles at Featurespace and Deliveroo. Comfortable across the SDLC, Suran combines deep expertise in concurrency, distributed processing and data engineering with hands‑on front‑end work and legacy platform migrations. He mentors teams, drives code quality through rigorous reviews, and repeatedly translates complex bioinformatics and e‑commerce requirements into production systems. A pragmatic problem solver, he pairs academic grounding with an engineer’s curiosity for performance and scalable data flows.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science, Computer Science, Master of Computer Science, Computer Science at University Of Colombo School Of ComputingBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Nowrosjee Wadia College
Spanish, French, English, Sinhalese
Github Skills (11)
retrieval9
browser8
java8
ftp8
file-format5
sequence5
api4
java-api4
xml3
flat-file3
specification3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
enasequence/enaBrowserTools
Jul 2018 - Apr 2022
A collection of scripts to assist in the retrieval of data from the ENA Browser
Contributions:6 releases, 13 reviews, 32 commits in 3 years 10 months
retrievalbrowserenaassist
enasequence/ena-ftp-downloader
Jun 2016 - Nov 2022
Contributions:9 releases, 75 reviews, 164 commits in 6 years 6 months
downloadingbulk-downloadingasperajavaftp
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