/resume

The full record: every role with dates and detail, certifications, education, and the complete tech stack. The short version lives on the home page, and the story behind it on /whoami.

sandev@blaze64.dev

Colombo, Sri Lanka | UTC+5:30

Experience

  • Bespoke Motor Group

    Software Engineer

    Apr 2026 – Present | Full-time | New York, United States | Remote

    • Platform engineering for a 50-person dealership group operating Bentley, Rolls-Royce, Lamborghini and Porsche franchises.
    • Led the system design and delivery of an in-house market intelligence platform featuring an ETL pipeline that scrapes and processes 50,000+ vehicles weekly, surfacing insights on pricing, regional dominance, and model market share.
    • Architected a local-first inventory eCatalog PWA with React, used daily by 25+ sales agents on showroom iPads, persisting inventory to IndexedDB for instant in-memory filtering and syncing every device through a shared Server-Sent Events stream.
    • Built scalable REST APIs with NestJS, Node.js, and PostgreSQL powering inventory management and inventory syndication across the Dealer Management System, secured via Microsoft Entra ID (SSO).
    • Developed responsive marketing websites for the Bentley, Rolls-Royce and Lamborghini brands with Next.js, HTML/CSS and Payload CMS, using server-side rendering for page performance and SEO visibility.

    Related: Local First PWA with IndexedDB & SSE, Distributed Systems

  • BudgetBuy AI

    Software Engineer

    Jun 2026 – Present | Part-time | Melbourne, Australia | Remote

    • AI-powered lead-capture SaaS for Australian SMBs, processing 5,000+ monthly interactions across voice and chat channels.
    • Architected a multi-tenant service based platform featuring Stripe subscription billing, a RAG pipeline on PostgreSQL with Edge Functions for document ingestion and vector retrieval, and N8N workflows with OpenAI agents.
    • Engineered a security-hardened API gateway in Express.js/TypeScript, enforcing tenant isolation via Row-Level Security and JWT authentication, while handling 100k+ daily requests and plan-based quotas.

    Related: Microservice Auth with JWTs

  • Maya Hive

    DevOps Engineer

    Jan 2022 – Mar 2026 | Full-time | Colombo, Sri Lanka

    • Full-stack delivery and ownership of platform engineering within a seven-person Agile product team.
    • Architected a multi-tenant CRM with Laravel, PHP and REST APIs supporting 6,000+ weekly leads across client tenants.
    • Engineered a Delivery Management System for JAT Holdings PLC with route optimization to handle 200+ daily deliveries.
    • Integrated Stripe, PayHere, Cybersource, WEBXPAY and MPGS payment gateways across PCI-sensitive checkout flows.
    • Designed scalable data architectures using SQL/NoSQL databases such as MySQL and MongoDB.
    • Architected secure Linux environments using Ansible and Docker, integrated GitHub Actions CI/CD.
    • Maintained 99.7% uptime SLA and Disaster Recovery (RTO/RPO) via SRE-focused Grafana and Prometheus observability.

    Related: Automating VPS with Ansible, The Hive Observatory, Building an On-Premise Server

    Web Development Intern

    Sep 2021 – Dec 2021 | Internship | Colombo, Sri Lanka

    • Contributed to client projects leveraging CMS features to create personalized and dynamic websites.
    • Built responsive WordPress sites with PHP, HTML, SASS and JavaScript, managing code in Git within Agile sprint cycles.

    Related: WordPress Survival Guide

Certifications

Education

Awards

  • HaXmas Hackathon – 2nd place

    Rotaract Club of IIT | 2021

    Secured 2nd place for ReClima, an SDG-aligned mobile strategy game built on Unity with C#. Led level design and core game mechanics within a 5-member team to launch an MVP.

Skills

  • Languages: Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, PHP, HTML, CSS, SQL, NoSQL
  • Frontend: React, Next.js, TanStack Start, Tailwind CSS, SCSS/SASS
  • Backend and APIs: Node.js, NestJS, Express, Laravel, Convex, REST APIs, GraphQL, JWT authentication
  • Infrastructure and cloud: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, Lambda), Linux (Ubuntu, Debian), Docker, Nginx, Ansible, Cloudflare, Vercel, GitHub Actions
  • Data and observability: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Prometheus, Grafana
  • Practices: DevOps, Domain-driven design, AI agent workflows (n8n)