Udara Gunawardena
Senior Solutions Engineer - Enterprise Application Storage
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolUdara Gunawardena is a Senior Solutions Engineer with nine years of experience designing petabyte-scale object storage and high-throughput data pipelines for AI/ML training workloads. At Backblaze he built the pre-sales function and led technical engagements that enabled 100 Gbps transfers, PB-scale migrations, and storage TCO reductions of 40–80% for customers from YC startups to large enterprises. He specializes in multi-cloud training architectures with egress-free designs, request coalescing, prefix sharding, and execution-ready TCO modeling that aligns engineering and finance. Known for turning detailed runbooks and POCs into repeatable playbooks, he also helped ship product features like B2 Cloud Replication by channeling customer feedback into the roadmap. Based in San Francisco, he combines hands-on engineering with consultative C-suite collaboration and a track record of influencing adoption of 100+ PB of customer data.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at San Francisco State UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Mission San Jose High School
English
Github Skills (1)
backblaze6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Backblaze/gists
Apr 2021 - Apr 2022
A repo for Backblaze gists used in our FAQ
Contributions:12 commits, 17 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year
backblazegists
udarag/Poetic-Justice
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
A simple poem generator built with Vue, Express, and Node.
Contributions:4 pushes in 13 days
poem-generatorexpressvuevue-expressnodejs
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