Isitha Subasinghe
Senior Software Engineer (Distributed Systems) at Pipekit.io
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolIsitha Subasinghe is a Senior Software Engineer in Melbourne with nine years' experience building distributed systems, compilers, and operating-system level tooling. Currently at Pipekit, he helps operate a distributed orchestration platform built on Argo Workflows and contributes upstream to the widely used Argo open-source project. His research stints at ETH Zürich and UNSW focused on formal verification and seL4-based OS work, and he has contributed to Verus, adding Unicode string support to a verified Rust fork. Past roles span real-time graph analytics, high-throughput text classification (2 billion events/day on two servers), and performance-focused front-end and AWS work for national-scale projects. Comfortable moving between research and production, he blends low-level systems rigor with pragmatic distributed engineering. Colleagues describe him as a programmer who thinks like a computer scientist—curious, detail-oriented, and adept at hard systems problems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at ETH ZürichThe University of Melbourne
Github Skills (18)
kubernetes10
workflow-engine10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
argo-workflows10
rust10
cloud-native10
testing9
dockers9
gcp9
docker9
api8
apim8
api-design8
nix8
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
verus-lang/verus
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
Verified Rust for low-level systems code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 20 commits, 11 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Isitha focused on adding support for unicode strings and implementing related features. Their work involved modifying core files related to the string representation and type system of the Verus language. The contributions include adding new functions, modifying existing functions and adding tests to ensure the string manipulation functions work as intended.
rust
argoproj/argo-workflows
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Workflow Engine for Kubernetes
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:512 reviews, 14 commits, 227 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Isitha Subasinghe made significant contributions to the Argo Workflows project, focusing on a range of backend and infrastructure improvements. They implemented new features, such as adding a priority field to submit options, while also fixing critical bugs related to path validation in the GCS driver. Furthermore, they refactored code related to container sets, dag execution, and cron workflow functionalities. Additionally, they handled release and dependency upgrades.
kubernetesworkflow-engineworkflowargodag
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