Malin Kankanamge


Experience

Software Developer | Fractal Tech NYC

2024

Built and deployed 20+ full-stack apps, 1000+ commits and 300+ PRs with >860 hours hands on keys

: An AI voice companion for exploring your emotions and working through difficulties.
: A fully functional e-commerce website selling the best snacks from around the world.
: React Native mobile app for recording and analyzing conversations.
: A social media app for generating and sharing art with your timeline.
: Interactive PDF reader that auto-generates context to help understand scientific articles.

Contract Software Engineer:

Plastic Labs, New York

Built a chat-with-website feature for Bloom Tutor-GPT that cleanly scrapes the content of any provided URL, loads it into the LLMs context window and starts a conversation. Built with typescript on next.js with a uvicorn python backend, utilizing jina.ai SDK for scraping and text normalization.

Eyeball, New York

Built various tools for web scraping, enabling type safety and setting up caching with Redis.

Technical Business Analyst | Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Aug 2020 – Jun 2023

• Led FinOps transformation achieving $20M savings across backup and storage portfolio
• Product Owner for compliance reporting platform modernization, leading agile development team
• Improved critical infrastructure compliance from 25% to 98% through systematic remediation

Business Analyst | Macquarie Group

Dec 2016 – Aug 2020

• Insourced global voice services from AT&T, reducing costs by $5M
• Provided L2 engineering support for Networks Voice and Video Conferencing infrastructure
• Led requirements gathering for call manager refresh and cloud trading platform implementations


Tech Stack

Frontend:React, Next.js, Tailwind, Vite, Zustand, Storybook
Backend:Node.js, Bun, Express, Next.js, Zod, TRPC
Auth:Clerk, Firebase, AuthKit, NextAuth
Scripting/Testing:Puppeteer, Playwright, Vitest, Postman
Databases:PostgreSQL, Prisma, Drizzle, Supabase, Redis
Deployment:Docker, Vercel, Railway, Render, Netlify, AWS EC2/S3

Education

Master of Commerce (Business Information Systems)
The University of Sydney

2015 – 2017

Bachelor of Science (Neuroscience)
The University of Sydney

2010 – 2013