Amani Soysa Email & Phone Number

Blackburn South, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

• Led project cross-functional development teams (both onshore and offshore), ensuring timely delivery of high-quality mobile and web solutions that exceeded client expectations within allocated budgets. • Led customer requirement gathering and prioritization workshops, established technical foundations, planned projects, and designed solutions that meet requirements. Also, ensured functional requirements were captured, solutions were designed and documented, and tasks were tracked and… Show more • Led project cross-functional development teams (both onshore and offshore), ensuring timely delivery of high-quality mobile and web solutions that exceeded client expectations within allocated budgets. • Led customer requirement gathering and prioritization workshops, established technical foundations, planned projects, and designed solutions that meet requirements. Also, ensured functional requirements were captured, solutions were designed and documented, and tasks were tracked and implemented. • Increased AKQA/Millipede's technical domain expertise by continuously researching and adapting new and emerging technologies to address customer requirements. • Provided oversight, guidance, and mentorship to developers within and outside of the team, fostering their growth and development.• Reporting to the General Manager, collaborated with discipline leads to inform team strategy, implement processes, and resolve operational issues. • Built and maintained effective client relationships as a trusted technical advisor. • Contributed to business development by supporting activities, compiling RFIs, writing business proposals, and estimating new work. • Managed technical team resources, capacity, and efficiency in collaboration with the Project Managers. • Promoted a culture of collaboration, learning, and work/life balance within the technical team. • Helped design and improve operational processes to enhance quality, productivity and impact. E.g. To improve the productivity and quality of offshore development teams, Establish efficient communication channels, Allow faster code reviews, etc. Show less

Melbourne, Australia

• Designed and developed tablet, smartphone, and web applications for prominent government and corporate organizations, as a full-stack software engineer.• Collaborated with stakeholders to design wireframes, clean interfaces and intuitive interactions.• Designed and developed the solution as well as deployment architectures, compiled comprehensive documentation and provided post-delivery support.• Conducted quality assurance tests and implemented automated tests for improved… Show more • Designed and developed tablet, smartphone, and web applications for prominent government and corporate organizations, as a full-stack software engineer.• Collaborated with stakeholders to design wireframes, clean interfaces and intuitive interactions.• Designed and developed the solution as well as deployment architectures, compiled comprehensive documentation and provided post-delivery support.• Conducted quality assurance tests and implemented automated tests for improved performance and usability. Show less

WSO2 Cloud - Application and API design, management, and hosting PaaS from the leading open-source software provider WSO2. • Interpret use cases, design and develop middleware software components of WSO2 Cloud. • Architect and Design the core functionalities of WSO2 Cloud Platform such as, user management, billing, multi-tenant logging. • Provide technical leadership to WSO2 Cloud Platform and lead the development team through requirement analysis, system design… Show more WSO2 Cloud - Application and API design, management, and hosting PaaS from the leading open-source software provider WSO2. • Interpret use cases, design and develop middleware software components of WSO2 Cloud. • Architect and Design the core functionalities of WSO2 Cloud Platform such as, user management, billing, multi-tenant logging. • Provide technical leadership to WSO2 Cloud Platform and lead the development team through requirement analysis, system design, development, technical documentation and testing as a Product Lead. • Supervise and execute system (WSO2 Cloud) deployment and maintenance activities. • Research on new technologies and concepts such as Big Data Analytics, Cloud Computing, Billing and develop Software to cater customer requirements. • Pro-actively take measures to ensure quality of Software components across WSO2 Cloud development platform in the form of conducting code reviews, enforcing peer reviews, etc. • Troubleshoot and analyze errors in live systems and provide solutions. • Provide training and leadership to customer support teams for system implementation, maintenance and bug fixing. • Provide deployment and configuration support to Dev-Ops teams. • Maintain positive client interactions and provide solutions to WSO2 Cloud Customers • Provide Software solution documents, architecture diagrams and training for WSO2 customers. • Take leadership in building the vision of the product • Identify roadmap for the product. Participate and drive the product council discussions. • Organize regular reviews; architecture, design, code, test etc. • Encourage/come up with plans to organize regular hackathons. • Pro-actively analyze prospective vendors against multiple dimensions, such as cost analysis, model adherence, feasibility and sustainability of the solutions to adapt a recurring billing system. Show less

WSO2 Stratos - WSO2 Stratos was the open PaaS operated by WSO2. It is powered by the multi-tenant WSO2 Stratos cloud middleware platform and shares a common code base with the award-winning WSO2 Carbon enterprise middleware platform, which was later donated to Apache Software Foundation • Design, develop multi-tenant distributed logging platform for Stratos • Architect, design and develop WSO2 Stratos Multi-tenant Logging Components. • Part of Software development team… Show more WSO2 Stratos - WSO2 Stratos was the open PaaS operated by WSO2. It is powered by the multi-tenant WSO2 Stratos cloud middleware platform and shares a common code base with the award-winning WSO2 Carbon enterprise middleware platform, which was later donated to Apache Software Foundation • Design, develop multi-tenant distributed logging platform for Stratos • Architect, design and develop WSO2 Stratos Multi-tenant Logging Components. • Part of Software development team that designed, implemented, tested and documented WSO2 Stratos. • Providing on-site technical consultancy at numerous well-known local/global organizations with development support • Speaker at wso2 conferences and workshops • Provide Software solution documents, architecture diagrams and training for WSO2 customers. • Consultant of many on-site customer engagements at different local and global sites carrying out duties such as: designing and architecting solutions to cater customer requirements, implementing solutions using WSO2 middleware platform, testing, deploying products to production servers and providing end-user training for US based fortune 500 companies. Show less

WSO2 Data Services Server augments Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) development efforts by providing an easy to use platform for integrating data stores, creating composite data views, and hosting data services. - Design, develop RDF data source support for wso2 data service server - Improving the usability of wso2 data services server with auto generate features with better User Experience - Represent wso2 data services in various global customer engagements, with… Show more WSO2 Data Services Server augments Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) development efforts by providing an easy to use platform for integrating data stores, creating composite data views, and hosting data services. - Design, develop RDF data source support for wso2 data service server - Improving the usability of wso2 data services server with auto generate features with better User Experience - Represent wso2 data services in various global customer engagements, with onsite consultancies - Working as a release manager covering all product release related aspect such as keeping the product build stable, JIRA/Redmine management, Release artifact deployment - Compile Software design documents, which document flow charts, sequence diagrams, activity diagrams, class diagrams, use cases and deployment diagrams. - Conduct research on technology, industry standards, enterprise integration patterns, best practices and adopt them into internal Software development processes. - Conduct performance testing, identify performance hits and improve performance of WSO2 products. - Presenter of SOA and PaaS work shops in Brazil - Represent a wide array of products of WSO2 Enterprise Middleware Product Stack at numerous customer discussions. Show less

Colombo

Guide students at every stage, from formulation of their research projects through establishing methodologies and discussing results, to presentation and possible publication of dissertations and make sure students’ work meets the standards of the University and the academic discipline.Supervised Projects Process Management System (PMS) for Product Development Center (PDC) in Silueta (Pvt) Ltd. - Information Technology – University of Colombo - by Mr.Kasun… Show more Guide students at every stage, from formulation of their research projects through establishing methodologies and discussing results, to presentation and possible publication of dissertations and make sure students’ work meets the standards of the University and the academic discipline.Supervised Projects Process Management System (PMS) for Product Development Center (PDC) in Silueta (Pvt) Ltd. - Information Technology – University of Colombo - by Mr.Kasun Disanayake2014 Remote Demonstrations - Interactive whiteboard -Institute of Infomatics Technology Sri Lanka In Collaboration with University Of Westminster (UK) - by Mr.Kanishka Gunasekera (2015)2015 Dyslexia Tutor -Institute of Infomatics Technology Sri Lanka In Collaboration with University Of Westminster (UK) - by Ms.Vichithra Samarawikrama2015 Facial Skin Analyzer - Institute of Infomatics Technology Sri Lanka In Collaboration with University Of Westminster (UK) - by MS. Shaima Fouz2015 Semi-autonomous tele-robotics framework for resource constrained systems - Institute of Infomatics Technology Sri Lanka In Collaboration with University Of Westminster (UK) - by Ms.S. N. W. Meegahathenna2016 Clinical Preschooler Depression Bio Meter (CPDBM) - Institute of Infomatics Technology Sri Lanka In Collaboration with University Of Westminster (UK) - by Ms.G. B. Y. Perera2016 Real time human breathing pattern analysis for sleeping disorders (Sleep Apnoea) - Institute of Infomatics Technology Sri Lanka In Collaboration with University Of Westminster (UK) - by Mr.A. D. Kumara2016 Show less

Waterloo, Canada

• Managed and led technology development and integration for STEAMBlocks, a set of modular electronic blocks to encourage kids in computer programming and electronics. -steamblocks.cc• Managed technology integration and execution of the initial production run for Smart PlushToys to interact with tablet applications. - kreyonic.com• Co-invented STEAMBlocks and Smart Plush Toys and drove the effort of obtaining provisional patents for the products that were invented.

Kottawa, Sri Lanka

• Involved in technology development for Leamo, an activity based interactive educationalgaming platform for kids.• Initiated the company as a co-founder and signed up 6 clients, 7 successfully executedprojects in less than 10 months from the company formation.

BT-Know How projectRevamp the BT (British Telecom) Openreach Portal to allow Communication providers and Portal visitors to access key information in a useful and efficient manner (by the use of an Information Architecture).

Project EAG (RADAR) - Data warehousing EngineerSkills applied - Data warehousing, Unified Dimension Modelings,DTS, SSIS,SSAS,SSRS, MDX, XMLASignificant Achievements - Migrating Data warehouse from DTS to SSIS - Redesign Data warehouse - Performance Enhancements on Cubes - Data optimization in RADAR data warehouse

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Child Computer Interactions

Research: Designing cost-effective interactive Tangible User Interface (TUI) based learning platforms to support children with Autism.

Bsc Software Engineering, Software Engineering

First Class Honors ChordATune - An emotion based melody harmonizer Academic Excellence Award NBQSA award Nominated to represent Sri Lanka.

Mathematics, 1-13

Activities and Societies: Astronomical Society, Chess Club, Swimming Club