Nuwan Silva
Engineering Manager at Backbase
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolNuwan Silva is an engineering manager with 12 years of international experience leading quality-focused, cross-functional teams across fintech and SaaS, currently driving delivery at Backbase from Amsterdam. He specializes at the intersection of AI adoption, SDLC improvements, and scalable test automation—having migrated CI/CD to GitHub Actions and boosted automation coverage from ~50% to 85%+, cutting deployment and QA cycle time significantly. A servant leader and coach, he has mentored 50+ engineers and orchestrated company-wide delivery initiatives across multiple product teams and departments. He brings operator-founder experience from co-founding Fillorie, where he scaled the consultancy and delivered end-to-end AI and ERP transformations for B2B clients. Known for removing blockers rather than adding process, he pairs hands-on engineering judgment with strategic delivery instincts to help teams ship reliably at scale.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Information Technology, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Information Technology at University of MoratuwaGCE Advanced Level, Mathematics, GCE Advanced Level, Mathematics at St. Peter's CollegeBachelor of Science (BSc), Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Information Technology at SLIIT
English, Sinhalese, Dutch
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Github Skills (45)
api-management10
rest10
api-gateway9
gateway9
gossip9
wso2-api-manager9
microservices9
testng8
android-test8
parallel-tests8
test-automation-framework8
testing8
selenium7
mybatis7
java7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nu1silva/RestServices
Sep 2017 - Jan 2022
Collection of services exposed through a REST API
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
servicesapirestfulrestrest-api
nu1silva/xtracker
Aug 2017 - Jul 2022
Spring Boot based Expense Tracking API
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 4 years 11 months
spring-bootapiexpensetrackingspring
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