Dasith Wijesiriwardena

Software Engineer | Solutions Architect | Tech Speaker | Geek with an unhealthy fascination for distributed systems and a #microsoftie. Not in that order. I’m currently based in Melbourne and work for Microsoft.

I’ve been developing software for close to 2 decades now. Since my early days of playing with C++, VB, ASP and PHP, software development has gone through a paradigm shift. These days I mostly work on things that run natively on the cloud and edge. Join me on my journey through the world of .NET and all things distributed.

Consider any opinions expressed here as my own.

Disclaimer. Most of my friends don’t have the slightest idea about what I actually do. I recently had a hilarious conversation a with few friends where their best guess was something close to this.

If you have a minute to spare have a read of this post I made about my early days as a developer. Link: https://dasith.me/2016/11/29/first-blog-post/

I am a polyglot software engineer with experience in consulting environments as well as solution architecture. I have been working with Microsoft technologies for close to 2 decades. My focus is distributed systems and I have extensive experience in development across the stack. In most of my development projects I employ an Agile method of development with emphasis on good design principles, manageable codebases and scalability. These days I mostly utilize Azure and AWS offerings to design & deliver cloud native solutions.

I started developing software professionally around 2004 but decided to pursue higher education while doing that. So, after completing my Masters degree in 2009 at Swinburne University of Technology, I joined a construction company called Luxton Plant as a software engineer and led the development of the best in class ERP software for hire, service and sales of earth moving equipment in that industry. I then worked for one of the top trade printing companies in Australia (called Whirlwind Print), integrating and streamlining their printing process and building a B2B framework. At this point I went into consulting and worked for Readify as a senior developer doing consulting work for clients of varying sizes. During this time Readify got acquired by Telstra and was renamed as Telstra Purple. A couple of promotions later, I joined Microsoft as a Senior Consultant. After a year of working in Microsoft Consulting Services, I took up an opportunity in Commercial Software Engineering as an Senior Software Engineer to work on some very exciting cutting edge solutions.

I love participating in the community, listening to war stories from the tech trenches and talking about my own experiences. My public speaker profile can be found here: https://sessionize.com/dasiths/

Currently my attention is on cloud native solutions and Kubernetes on edge:

  • Converting monolithic systems into modularized cohesive parts + microservices.
  • Event sourcing, CQRS & Eventually consistent models and distributed systems.
  • Event driven serverless solutions. (Azure Event Hub / Event Grid with Azure Functions or AWS SQS and AWS Lambda).
  • Containerised workloads and orchestration (Kubernetes, Dapr + Tye).
  • Running intelligent systems on edge using Kubernetes and modern workflows using GitOps.

My stack usually consists of the following…

Technologies:

.NET Core, ASP.NET Core, NodeJs, GoLang, Angular, React

Languages:

C#, C++, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, Kotlin, Python, Bash and Powershell scripting

Platforms:

Azure / AWS / Edge (PaaS, Serverless, Windows and Linux Containers, Kubernetes)

IDE / Tools:

Visual Studio, VS Code, Git tools, Dev Containers

CI/CD:

Azure DevOps, GitHub, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, AWS CodePipeline, ARM templates, Bicep, CloudFormation, Terraform, GitOps tools

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