Tharaka De Silva
Software Engineer II at Booking.com
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolTharaka De Silva is a Software Engineer II based in Amsterdam with 10 years of experience building fault-tolerant, scalable back-end systems and automation across fintech, e-commerce, and API platforms. He has driven high-throughput projects—supporting API gateways at 10,000 TPS—and built developer tooling (a Go-based CLI for CI/CD) to streamline team workflows. At Booking.com and prior employers he focused on resilient microservices, cloud migrations (Rancher to AWS ECS), and performance improvements such as converting sync code to reactive patterns and implementing ephemeral Redis caching. An implicit strength is his attention to observability and error clarity—evident in contributions to the popular Jenkins git-plugin where he improved exception propagation and error messaging to aid debugging. He combines hands-on engineering with mentoring experience and a pragmatic approach to aligning software design with business requirements.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Information Technology, Minor: Mathematics, 3.5, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Information Technology, Minor: Mathematics, 3.5 at Minnesota State University, MankatoCoursework, Electrical Engineering, Minor: Mathematics, Coursework, Electrical Engineering, Minor: Mathematics at Fairleigh Dickinson University
English, Sinhalese
Stackoverflow
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6kreached
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Github Skills (17)
git10
sc10
java10
javas10
jenkins10
error-handling10
jenkins-ci10
debug9
debugging9
html6
delay6
react6
jhipster6
bazel-rules6
bazel6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/git-plugin
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Git repository access for Jenkins jobs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Tharaka primarily focused on improving error handling and exception management within the Git plugin. Their contributions involved refining error messages and ensuring that exceptions, specifically `GitException` instances, were propagated correctly to maintain stack traces for debugging purposes. Furthermore, the user corrected the construction and formatting of error messages for improved clarity and accuracy within the Jenkins environment. This included removing superfluous elements and ensuring proper formatting of the error output.
jenkinsjenkins-security-scan-enabledgit-pluginjenkins-plugingitflow
tharakadesilva/personal-site
Apr 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:5 PRs, 99 pushes, 8 branches in 11 months
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