Thilanga Pitigala
Senior Consulting Manager (Product Engineering) at Cognizant
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolThilanga Pitigala is a Senior Consulting Manager and seasoned technical leader with over a decade designing API-first, scalable web applications across Node/TypeScript, Go, PHP (Laravel/Symfony) and modern JavaScript frameworks. He blends hands-on architecture and delivery expertise with people leadership—having led engineering teams, built zero-downtime deployment processes, and driven platform automation and data warehouse initiatives that improved time-to-value. A pragmatic solution architect, Thilanga has significant production cloud experience (AWS, GCE, Lambda, Docker, CI/CD) and a track record of stabilising and modernising open-source projects like Dingo API and the popular laravel-mongodb driver through compatibility fixes, CI/CD improvements and performance work. Based in Melbourne, he pairs an MBA with deep technical craft, often finding product-facing uses for new tech and optimizing developer workflows to accelerate feature delivery.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA Business Administration and Management General, Master of Business Administration - MBA Business Administration and Management General at Victoria University
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Github Skills (18)
docker10
apidoc10
laravel-mix10
testing10
laravel10
dockers10
cicd10
phpunit10
php10
lumen10
api10
git9
bash9
mongodb8
mongodb-database8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dingo/api
Sep 2017 - Feb 2018
A RESTful API package for the Laravel and Lumen frameworks.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 13 commits, 75 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Thilanga primarily focused on maintaining and improving the Dingo API package for Laravel and Lumen. Their contributions included fixing compatibility issues with newer Laravel versions, refactoring code for better readability and maintainability, and addressing bugs related to core functionalities. They also reverted several commits, indicating a role in identifying and correcting issues in the API's codebase. Additionally, the user worked on adapting the API to support new features.
apirestfulphpapi-generatorlumen
mongodb/laravel-mongodb
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
A MongoDB based Eloquent model and Query builder for Laravel (Moloquent)
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:25 commits, 7 PRs, 4 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Thilanga primarily focused on improving the project's build and testing infrastructure. They added Docker support and configured the CI/CD pipeline, integrating testing and code coverage analysis into the build process. The contributions included modifying the `entrypoint.sh` script and updating test files to ensure proper execution and reporting. These changes streamlined the development workflow and improved code quality.
querymongophpbuildermoloquent
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