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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).

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).

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.

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.

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).

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Operations and development of RPG based applications running on AS400 servers for debt collecting software system.

Phd In Vision Systems, Machine Learning, Phd

Msc, Enterprise Applications Development, Merit

Conducted research project in Android - Java API based identity system for Container Logistics Operation.

Bcs, Information Technology

Activities and Societies: Gained the BCS Higher Education Qualification and gained the advantage of being a Member Of BCS.Gained MBCS.

Hnd (Btec), Business Management

Activities and Societies: Under Edexcell UK specifications theories are implemented on real practical environment. Knowledge and exposure.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Senior Prefect Electronic Radio Club Member Helth Society MemberGCE OL / GCE AL (Mathermatics) / University.