Bhathiya Perera
Software Engineer at Meta
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBhathiya Perera is a pragmatic software engineer with 12 years of experience building backend services, APIs and automation across finance and cloud platforms, currently at Meta after tech-lead roles at Citi and Amazon. He holds an M.Sc. in Advanced Software Engineering and a strong track record of improving performance and test coverage—once boosting a Python codebase to ~90% coverage and cutting framework load times by 470%. Comfortable across Java, Kotlin, Python and JavaScript, he has delivered features for Alexa, built Flask/React services, and worked closely with SRE/DevOps to harden production systems. Bhathiya mentors engineers, leads code reviews, and has held VP-level technical leadership responsibilities in corporate settings. As an enduring tinkerer and open-source enthusiast, he invents tools like his own programming language Yaksha and has maintained technical blogs and community projects since early in his career. Based in Stony Stratford, UK, he blends hands-on implementation with measurable engineering process gains in regulated, high-scale environments.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Physical Sciences, Physical Sciences at Maris Stella College, NegomboMaster of Science (MSc) Advanced Software Engineering, Master of Science (MSc) Advanced Software Engineering at University of WestminsterBachelor of Science (BSc) Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Information Technology at SLIIT
English, Sinhalese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (138)
programming-language10
compile-time10
python10
windows10
terminal-app10
c9910
internet10
background-music10
transpiler10
qt10
download-file10
download-manager10
queue10
cli10
prompt-toolkit10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
YakshaLang/yakshalang.github.io
Jun 2022 - Jun 2024
Documentation & Website
Contributions:7 PRs, 63 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
documentation-website
JaDogg/expressPython
Nov 2014 - Feb 2022
🚄🐍 expressPython - A small Python editor for learning and competitive programming.
Contributions:4 releases, 116 commits, 3 PRs in 7 years 3 months
pythonideexpress-pythonqtwindows
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