Sajith Herath

Highly skilled and enthusiastic software engineer with 3+ years of work experience in innovative application design and development. Skilled in research and development, backend, machine learning, object-oriented and functional programming, devops, and agile process.

I'm a true sports lover and I'm a calisthenics athlete. In my free time, I travel and do photography📷 in nature, wildlife and landscapes. Check Gallery😉. Finally, I love hang with friends.

2021 - Present: Senior Research Software Engineer: PrimeSens LLC

2020 - 2021: Freelance Software Engineer
• Designed and developed REST APIs with Python and Nodejs.
- FastAPI
- Express.js
• Experience in video streaming domain
- AWS Chime
- FFMPEG
- RTMP/HLS
- WebRTC
- Jitsi
• Experience in DevOps - GCP, AWS, Azure
- Configuring CI/CD pipelines
- Configuring kubernetes clusters

2019 - 2020: Software Engineer in Machine Learning: Arimac Lanka
• Designed and developed innovative web application called socialreach.ai that is a social media management tool. Technologies used: Python, Mongodb, REST APIs, OAuth2, Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, Sentiment Analysis, Background processes Experienced with integration of facebook, instagram, twitter and linkedin APIs with access approval process. Gained knowledge about handling public data with GDPR compliance. The product was awarded from NBQSA 2020 - Digital Marketing and Advertising Category
• Worked with Java spring boot microservices, computer vision projects and experienced agile software development process.

2017 - 2018: Software Engineer - Intern: Fortunaglobal (Pvt) Limited
• Appointed to an AI based R&D chatbot project and developed AI chatbots for banks that are able to response to inquiries and provide online banking facilities.
• Separate CMSs are developed for administrative purposes that can maintain the chatbot and provide insights of chats.
• Designed and Implemented a chatbot to search news for Ada Derana. A custom search engine is developed to query news.
• Designed and Developed a web application including a chatbot that is able to register an insurance and claim insurance policies instantly using the chat.
• Developed the back-end for a mobile application that enables digital marketing for the farming community.
• Experience in deployment process on cloud servers
and local servers with critical and high security configurations
• Experience in Disaster Recovery(DR) process in banks

2015 - 2019: Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT-Sri Lanka) affiliated with University of Westminster: BEng in Software Engineering (1^st class honours)