Lahiru Liyanapathirana

Software Engineer

Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka10 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Proven expertise in Java and AWS solutions.
Led teams to deliver high-quality software on time.
Strong background in system architecture and design.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack developer with strong expertise in SaaS and cloud solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

JavaAwsApi DevelopmentSpring Framework

Other Skills

System ArchitectureTeam LeadershipStakeholder CollaborationHigh-AvailabilityDisaster-RecoveryHashicorp VaultTerraformKubernetesMentoringCI/CDSpring SecurityMicroservicesCICDSpring BootMySQL

About

Experienced Technical Lead with a strong background in Java, AWS, DevOps, and related technologies. Skilled in system architecture analysis, design, and all software development life cycle stages. A team player with exceptional communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills. Passionate about continuous learning and delivering high-quality software solutions.

Experience

10 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

4 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Sysco labs sri lanka

3 roles

Senior Technical Lead

Promoted

Sep 2025 – Present · 9 mos

Technical Lead

Sep 2023 – Sep 2025 · 2 yrs

Associate Technical Lead

Mar 2022 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos

Led and mentored a team of software engineers, providing technical and domain guidance to enable performance and professional growth.
Worked collaboratively with stakeholders to assess, and prioritize requirements, ensuring alignment with business and engineering goals and delivery of high-quality software solutions on time.
Designed and contributed to the development of a multi-tenant monitoring application which monitors labor related activities in all the Sysco warehouses resulted in streamlining processes and significant cost savings.
Designed and implemented High-Availability and Disaster-Recovery capabilities for the labor management components with AWS, which resulted in minimal downtime.
Led the division's R&D team to incorporate static/dynamic secret storing and rotation by Hashicorp Vault instead of the existing secret storage.
Redesigned and optimized the architecture of the LM area, resulting in a 30% reduction in the time taken to measure warehouse workers' performance and efficiency.

JavaAWSSystem ArchitectureTeam LeadershipStakeholder CollaborationHigh-Availability+2

Virtusa

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2020 – Mar 2022 · 2 yrs · Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Contributed to the development of new features, enhancing existing features, and resolving bugs, and to the overall success of the project.
Refactored and optimized legacy code bases to improve performance and reduce complexity, leading to an overall performance increase of 15%.
Maintained and troubleshot infrastructure built on AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes, ensuring smooth and reliable software delivery.
Designed and implemented an API to integrate SCA scan results with IDE plugins.
Mentored and trained new team members, providing guidance and support to help them succeed in their roles.
Improved SCA scan workflows by decoupling using AWS SQS and SNS, resulting in more streamlined and efficient scan processes.

AWSTerraformKubernetesAPI DevelopmentMentoringCI/CD

Epic lanka

Software Engineer

Jul 2017 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Contributed to design and development of critical modules for a Core Banking application using Java and Spring frameworks, and implemented Spring Security measures to enhance the application's security.
Implemented a redesigned architecture which reduced the cognitive complexity, efficiency and development time of core modules by 20% while ensuring the requirements' integrity remained intact.
Mentored and led a team of software engineers, providing technical guidance and domain knowledge, fostering individual growth and improvement.
Migrated a monolithic project to microservices-based architecture, implemented a CICD pipeline, and contributed to the successful adoption of the new architecture.

JavaSpring FrameworkSpring SecurityMicroservicesCICD

Visni (pvt) ltd

Software Engineer

Dec 2016 – Jul 2017 · 7 mos · Sri Lanka

Designed and developed high available REST APIs for mobile applications using Java, Spring Boot and MySQL and Spring Security.
Contributed for successful development of a crowdfunding application using microservice architecture using Java Netflix OSS stack.
Implemented an automated Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline to reduce manual deployment time by 60% using Git, Docker and Jenkins.
Designed and implemented high available, scalable and fault tolerant cloud infrastructure using AWS for the mentioned microservice project.

JavaSpring BootMySQLAWSCI/CD

Fortunaglobal (pvt.) limited

Trainee Software Engineer

Jul 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr

Contributed for feature development of Internet Banking applications for leading banks in Sri Lanka as a part of the core team.
Carried out successful deployment of applications at client servers and on spot issue fixing at a 75% success rate.
Designed and implemented pluggable dynamic reporting modules the mentioned banking applications.

Internet Banking ApplicationsDynamic Reporting