Suthagar Kailayapathy
Senior Software Engineer at Meta
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSuthagar Kailayapathy is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable backend systems, currently driving engineering work at Meta after senior roles at Wise and Sysco LABS. He specializes in RESTful API design, cloud-native architectures on AWS, CI/CD and test-driven development, and has a track record of owning system design through deployment. At Sysco he designed an algorithm to identify best-sellers among 1M products and led production delivery and 100+ code reviews, demonstrating both technical depth and operational ownership. An active open-source contributor to OpenMRS, he implemented and hardened REST and FHIR integrations and added reliable test coverage for widely used healthcare APIs. He brings practical experience mentoring large community programs (Google Summer of Code/Code-in) and a penchant for turning complex domain requirements into dependable, well-tested services. Based in London, he combines enterprise-scale engineering with a developer-first open-source mindset.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering(CSE), Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering(CSE) at University of MoratuwaDiploma Certifications Computer Programming Specific Applications, Diploma Certifications Computer Programming Specific Applications at CSC ASIAN Computer Education AcademyHigh School Physical Sciences, High School Physical Sciences at Jaffna Hindu College
Sinhala, Tamil, English
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Github Skills (23)
unit-testing10
api-rest10
api-design10
restful-api10
java10
webservice10
javas10
rest-api10
openmrs10
ip-address9
environment-variables9
php9
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
openmrs/openmrs-module-webservices.rest
Jul 2017 - May 2018
Provides RESTful web services for OpenMRS (REST API)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 10 PRs, 1 branch in 10 months
Contributions summary:Suthagar primarily focused on implementing and updating RESTful web services for the OpenMRS platform, including system information, module resources, and task definitions. Their contributions involved creating new REST endpoints and modifying existing ones. They also added test cases to ensure the functionality of the implemented and modified REST APIs. The user's work is focused on expanding the API capabilities and ensuring their reliability.
webserviceopenmrsrestfulopenmrs-apiweb-services
openmrs/openmrs-module-locationbasedaccess
May 2018 - Nov 2019
Adds ability to access patients based on their locations
Contributions:2 releases, 68 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year 6 months
locationspatientsability
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