Vim Weerasiri
Engineering Manager at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVim Weerasiri is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience building and scaling high-throughput backend systems for consumer products, now leading engineering for Facebook Groups at Meta in New York. He has led teams at Amazon Music and Wish, where he designed and shipped 30+ major features and owned a shipping service handling roughly 1M orders per day. A quick learner and solutionist, he combines hands-on systems design with people leadership to deliver measurable product and performance gains. He founded HoneyJade to tackle embedded and IT challenges and contributed open-source tooling like Sinhala API for optimized Singlish–Sinhala translations. His background includes early backend work at Facebook that tripled recall in a Trending News module, reflecting a consistent focus on data-driven improvements. He pairs entrepreneurial curiosity with production-grade engineering across both startups and large tech platforms.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Engineering at University of MoratuwaSecondary Education, Secondary Education at Ananda CollegeSenior Certificate In Theory Of Music, Senior Certificate In Theory Of Music at Institute Of Western Music & Speech
Github Skills (3)
speech3
java3
speech-recognition2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vimukthiweerasiri/Snippets
Sep 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
vimukthiweerasiri/my_shortcuts
Jun 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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