Summary
Tharushi Samara is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of experience building data-focused engineering solutions, currently working at Sitecore and IGT1 Lanka after progressing through data engineering roles at Wiley and Dialog Axiata. She specializes in ELT pipeline development, Snowflake, Apache Airflow, and integrating on-premise systems like SAP HANA with cloud sources such as AWS S3, pairing technical delivery with cost and performance optimization. A University of Colombo CS graduate with an MSc in Big Data Analytics and CIMA management accounting training, she brings uncommon cross-discipline fluency between data engineering and finance domains. Her background includes hands-on BI work—PowerBI and Tableau dashboards with Airflow-driven refreshes—and early experience in customer-centric analytics and KYC projects. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic engineer who turns complex enterprise data flows into reliable, auditable pipelines while keeping stakeholder reporting needs front and center.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science at University of Colombo School of Computing
Master of Science - MS Big Data Analytics, Master of Science - MS Big Data Analytics at Robert Gordon University
Sacred Heart Convent,Galle
Charted Institute of Management Accountant- (CIMA), Charted Institute of Management Accountant- (CIMA) at Wisdom Business Academy