Thisara Alawala

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Technical Architect at Foxtel Group @ Foxtel Group
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Australia
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My passion is to utilize my software architectural, engineering and technical team mentoring calibre to help organizations to transform IT delivered business processes more efficient, autonomous and agile.I have been in the industry for 20 years including 8 years with strategic architectural decision maker while helping organizations to conclude key architectural decisions in the IT transformation journey.I have key interest in analyzing tradeoffs in different architectural styles in order to align decision with the given business context. As a TOGAF certified Enterprise Architect I practice enterprise architecture principles more often.Further I'm a continuous and curious learner who invest my time to continuously improve my knowledge and skills, and I contribute my learning via general publications, journals and videos.

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Foxtel Group

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Technical Architect at Foxtel Group
Thisara Alawala Work Experience Details
  • Foxtel Group
    Technical Architect
    Foxtel Group Apr 2022 - Present
    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    Own the responsibility of technical architecture of metadata domain and defined technical architecture of new aggregated metadata platform including its service orchestration tool. Migrated the legacy independent video asset metadata workflows into aggregated product agnostic processing phase to enable flexible distribution to any product platform. This enabled decoupling of source systems with end applications enabling re-usability of those video assets in any new platform such as Hubbl. The primary drivers followed to achieve the end goal was the clear definition of architecture with it's principals to follow in collaboration with engineering and business / solution architects throughout the design and delivery phases.Architecture: Microservices, Event-Driven, Microservices Orchestration.Key Technical Skills: Languages (Java), Microservices (Springboot), AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Microservice Orchestration (Orkes Conductor), Alerting and Monitoring (Newrelic).
  • Sysco Labs
    Software Architect
    Sysco Labs Jun 2019 - Oct 2021
    Main role was to lead the Technical Architecture of Sysco Shop, which is an eCommerce front-end for US largest food supply chain www.sysco.com. Defined standards for frond end which is developed on React JS with Node JS BFF Pattern and standardized the set of APIs. Held the responsibility of people management in addition to technical architectural leadership by managing engineering managers of scrum teams.Technical Skills : Languages (React JS, Node JS), Microservices (SpringBoot Backend), NoSQL DB (MongoDB, Atlas), Relational DB (PostgresDB), Application Servers (Tomcat), Infrastructure (AWS ECS).
  • Pearson
    Software Architect
    Pearson Apr 2018 - Jun 2019
    Architect the product or engineering requirement to delivery efficient and effective solution to cater the needs of over 10 million user transacting daily related to eLearning course launches at www.pearson.com. As a key highlight, The company had multiple generations of products complying to different protocols, and I have designed a standard gateway as an aggregated service to expose content to education product vendors such as www.eFollet.com. The aggregated layer had capabilities of transform standard incoming requests in to internal platform specific protocols complying to internal and external security standards.Technical Skills : Architecture Development and Governance. Technical project architecture leadership.
  • Pearson
    Associate Software Architect
    Pearson Sep 2016 - Apr 2018
    Analyse, Design and Plan the implementation of business requirements in to creative, effective and efficient enterprise grade software systems catered over 10 million users per day.Technical Skills : Architecture Development and Governance.
  • Pearson
    Senior Technical Specialist
    Pearson Jul 2016 - Sep 2016
    Implement business requirement within the agile environment complying to the engineering best practices, maintaining high availability of high critical and main middleware system of the organisation with leading, guiding and mentoring the technical team.Technical Skills : Languages (Java), Servlet and JSP, Relational DB (Oracle 10g), Application Servers (Tomcat), Infrastructure (Data-centre deployment), Key Frameworks and Libraries (Spring Framework, Hibernate, Oracle SOA).
  • Pearson
    Associate Technical Specialist
    Pearson Apr 2015 - Jul 2016
    Design and development of the business features and technical debts coordinating with product manager and architects.Technical Skills : Languages (Java), Servlet and JSP, Relational DB (Oracle 10g), Application Servers (Tomcat), Infrastructure (Data-centre deployment), Key Frameworks and Libraries (Spring Framework, Hibernate, Oracle SOA).
  • Aitken Spence Technologies
    Technical Team Lead
    Aitken Spence Technologies Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
    Sri Lanka
    This was a startup company within the AitkenSpence Group to automate internal manual operations, and I was the first employee of the company. My main responsibility was to analyse the requirement gathered from direct customer using necessary requirement gathering techniques as per the audience, and transform it in to a complete technical architecture with necessary selection of the technical stack while guiding the technical and testing team to achieve the defined technical goals. Further ensured the engineering team is adhering to the defined software development process and the best practices in the scrum agile environment was a key responsibility in my role. In addition to that had the exposure of setting up infrastructure from scratch in the startup such as OnPrem services with application servers (Tomcat, JBoss), database (Oracle, Postgre SQL) and load balancers (HA Proxy), Sub-Version, Mantis Bug Tracking and Jira.
  • Aitken Spence Technologies
    Senior Software Engineer
    Aitken Spence Technologies Jul 2012 - Jan 2014
    Colombo 2
    Apart from the engineering role I was playing the role of leading and guiding the technical deliveries with the engineering team. And prompt communication and coordination with client to negotiate deliveries and modifications.
  • Aitken Spence Technologies
    Software Engineer
    Aitken Spence Technologies Aug 2010 - Jul 2012
    Colombo 2
    This was my first startup challenge that I had undertaken as the first employee of the company. And I have played a major role in building all the technical, infrastructure and people requirements of the company from scratch. Technical : Application Design and Development using Java technologies and Solution implementation and integration for Oracle software systems are the main responsibilities. Further research and development of RAD tool for JavaEE based applications has been conducted where the generated application architecture consists of JSF 2.0, Eclipse Link JPA, Model and Controller based back-end architecture.Infrastructure : Setting up code-repositories (svn and git), database (Oracle, Postgres, MySQL) and server (Tomcat, JBoss, Glassfish) environments for development, testing and production systems. Establish project management tools (Jira), bug tracking (Mantis) tools and CI-CD environment (Jenkins).People : Took part in interviewing and selecting the right choice for the company requirements.
  • Matrix Institute Of Information Technology (Pvt) Ltd
    Software Engineer And It Lecturer
    Matrix Institute Of Information Technology (Pvt) Ltd Feb 2009 - Aug 2010
    Colombo 4
    This is a private education institute and I have transformed most of the internal manual operations in to automated systems with small team of developers while re-engineering internal process workflows. In addition to that contributed as a lecturer for international examinations such as BCS and ACS.
  • Quantrax Corporation Inc.
    Rpg As400 Operaror / Developer
    Quantrax Corporation Inc. Dec 2005 - Nov 2008
    Operations and development of RPG based applications running on AS400 servers for debt collecting software system.

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Java Javascript Eclipse Sql Oracle Web Services Struts Mysql Java Enterprise Edition Hibernate Servlets Software Development Linux Javase Scrum Team Leadership Lecturing Tomcat Spring Framework Jdeveloper Oracle Sql Developer Oracle Ipm Spring Di Hibernate 3.1 Eclipselink Apache 2 Net Beans Ide Oracle Soa Suite Oracle Bpm Spring Mvc Code Review Intellij Idea Web Service Development Erp Internet Of Things Amazon Web Services Machine Learning Mongodb Devops Design Patterns Git Nosql Model View Controller Service Oriented Architecture Representational State Transfer Microservices Api Development Software Solution Architecture Aws

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