Vimuth Fernando
Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolVimuth Fernando is an Applied Scientist at AWS with 13 years of experience blending research-grade rigor and production engineering. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from UIUC and has a strong background in autotuning JVMs and performance optimization from research roles at UIUC and University of Moratuwa. His early open-source and internship work—moving Apache Pig to Maven and building logging/metering systems—reflects a practical bent for improving developer tooling and observability. Vimuth is a quick learner who thrives on hard problems and translating academic ideas into scalable cloud services. Based in Seattle, he combines deep algorithmic knowledge with hands-on systems engineering to deliver measurable improvements in large-scale software. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of reorganizing codebases for maintainability, a skill that accelerates long-term delivery.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of MoratuwaHigh School, High School at Trinity College KandyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Sinhalese
Github Skills (21)
sensor5
java4
ieee4
apache3
embedded3
arm3
electrical-engineering3
computation3
wso23
firmware3
network-server3
microcontroller2
big-data2
kubernetes2
accumulo2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
vimuth/vimuth.github.io
Jul 2018 - Aug 2022
Contributions:51 pushes in 4 years 1 month
vimuth/book-search-app
Aug 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:36 commits in 1 month
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