Summary
Tharaka Dissanayake is an Associate Technical Lead and full-stack engineer with over a decade of experience building Python-backed APIs, AI integrations, and React front ends across remote UK and US teams. He has progressed from web developer and lecturer to founding a university-admissions platform (findmydegree.lk) and leading FastAPI, Django and LLM-based chatbot projects for Block Solutions. Known for blending hands-on engineering with teaching, he repeatedly bridges data engineering, ML/AI workflows and product delivery while mentoring teams. Based in Surat with roots in Sri Lanka, he brings a pragmatic, education-focused perspective to AI-enabled product development and has a track record of shipping creative automation solutions in production.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Engineering at Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT), Surat
Diploma in software Engineering Computer Software Engineering, Diploma in software Engineering Computer Software Engineering at ESOFT Metro Campus
advanced level Mathematics, advanced level Mathematics at S.Thomas' College, Bandarawela
English, Sinhalese, Hindi, Tamil