Udesh Senaratne is a founder and software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building distributed systems, cloud platforms, and developer tooling across startups and enterprise teams. He’s led end-to-end architecture and implementation—shipping a SOC2-certified cloud product for Evidence from prototype to paying customer in five months—while working across TypeScript, Java, C++, and Python. His strengths span infrastructure as code, microservices, streaming platforms, and data stores, plus deeper systems work like compiler and IDE/plugin development rooted in a Combinatorics & Optimization background. An active full-stack contributor to Evidence’s open-source BI project, he blends UI polish (Excel-like formatting and visualization UX) with backend scalability. Now founding Synluma and Framecast after an Antler residency focused on domain-specific AI, he combines startup grit with a track record of rapidly turning prototypes into production.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Mathematics, Combinatorics and Optimization, Honours Bachelor of Mathematics, Combinatorics and Optimization at University of Waterloo
Business intelligence as code: build fast, interactive data visualizations in SQL and markdown
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:84 reviews, 53 commits, 93 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Udesh primarily contributed to the Evidence project by implementing and refactoring features related to the formatting of data and the user interface. They worked on incorporating custom formatting options using an Excel-like format, and also updated built-in formatting to support Excel-like format expressions. The user also made changes to enhance the display of data in the UI, including the modification of axis labels and the addition of currency symbols. Finally, there were changes to enhance the project build process.
Contributions:35 commits, 4 PRs, 24 pushes in 5 years 1 month
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Udesh Senaratne - Founder Software Engineer at Framecast