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Adeesha Ekanayake-Weber

Building software at Startups

United States
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16+

Years Experience

14

Roles

36

Skills

3

Education

About

I love building scalable, observable, fault-tolerant software, and growing high-trust, highly aligned, high-performing teams!

Experience (14 roles)

Purplefish · Full-time

Member of Technical Staff

Current

Purplefish · Full-time

Apr 2025 - Present · 5 mos·New York, New York, United States · Hybrid
Sugarwork · Full-time

Founding Engineer

Sugarwork · Full-time

Apr 2023 - Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo·NYC · Hybrid

New York, United States * Leading a team of 2 engineers and 1 QA * Built a Knowledge Sharing platform that captures conversations between groups of users, transcribes them and uses AI to unleash the extracted knowledge using Ruby on Rails, python, Temporal.io and postgreSQL * Built highly secure inf...

6 yrs 1 mo

4 roles · Apr 2017 - Apr 2023

VP, Platforms

Oct 2022 - Apr 2023 · 7 mos

- Managing the Core Platforms team, which is responsible for providing an ergonomic, robust and flexible development environment for Fevo's Engineering team, and the Integrations Hub team, which owns Fevo's software systems serving as an electronic bridge between Fevo and its integration partners. -...

Lead Software Engineer

Feb 2020 - Oct 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos

- Led a global team of 11 engineers in building, enhancing and maintaining the software that serves as a bridge between Fevo and integration partners. - Through the use of regular 1:1s, clear communication and good project management, grew a high-trust team of high-performing software engineers. - U...

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2018 - Feb 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos

- Using Scala and Akka, built a scalable, robust, fault tolerant system for throttling orders to meet the strict requirements set by the Ticketmaster Archtics API. - Served as a champion for automated testing, and wrote suites of unit and functional tests to improve robustness and reduce regressions...

Software Engineer

Apr 2017 - Aug 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos

Skills: Early-Stage Startups · Scala

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Education (3)

Ithaca College

Ithaca College

2010 - 2013

Grade: GPA: 3.9 Activities and societies: App Club Entrepreneurship Community Buddhist Community Undergraduate Research Graduated Summa Cum Laude from Ithaca College with a B.S in Computer Science, in December 2013. Received President's Scholarship (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013), Keshishglou scholarship for outstanding international students (2012), and Dana Internship (2012).

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St. Thomas' College, Mt. Lavinia

2005 - 2008

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S. Thomas' Preparatory School, Kollupitiya

1999 - 2005

Skills (36)

AI Engineering

LLM

Backend

Ruby on RailsC++Temporal

Database

RedisPostgreSQL

DevOps

Terraform

Frontend

TypeScriptReact.js

Other

AI BuilderLarge Language Models (LLM)ReactCore DataJavaScriptjQueryProgrammingAkkaSoftware as a Service (SaaS)LeadershipScalaEarly-Stage StartupsAgentsTemporal IOGo (Programming Language)MySQLPostgreSQLRedisTemporalRubyPythonTerraformpgvectorLangChainTypeScriptReactJava
Publications (1)

MEUSE: RECOMMENDING INTERNET RADIO STATIONS

Proeedings of The International Society for Music Information Retrieval, Nov. 2013, Curitiba, Brazil · Nov 16, 2013

Languages (2)
Sinhalese(Native or bilingual proficiency)English(Native or bilingual proficiency)

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Adeesha Ekanayake-Weber's current role?
Adeesha Ekanayake-Weber is currently working as Member of Technical Staff at Purplefish · Full-time.
Where did Adeesha Ekanayake-Weber study?
Adeesha Ekanayake-Weber studied Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Ithaca College. They have 3 education entries on their profile.
What skills does Adeesha Ekanayake-Weber have?
Adeesha Ekanayake-Weber's top skills include AI Builder, Terraform, Large Language Models (LLM), React, Core Data. They have 36 skills listed on their profile.
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Adeesha Ekanayake-Weber is based in United States.

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