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About Sahan Serasinghe
Sahan Serasinghe is a Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead at Canva, where he focuses on developer experience — building tools, improving code quality, and helping engineers ship faster across the Python ecosystem. He brings more than a decade of hands-on work across .NET, Python, Go, TypeScript, Kubernetes, and Azure.
Based in Adelaide, Australia, Sahan holds a Master’s in Data Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Architect. His work blends practical distributed systems with a strong focus on developer productivity and cloud-native patterns.
He writes about developer tooling, distributed systems, streaming APIs, and real-world engineering practices, sharing lessons that help teams move quickly and confidently.
✍️ What is this blog?
This is where I share my experiments, learnings, and thoughts on engineering topics I care about - mostly around:
- 🛠 Developer experience & tooling
- 🐍 Python
- ⚙️ Distributed systems
- ☁️ Cloud-native architecture
- 🧪 Side projects
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🔥 Popular Posts
🧾 Most Read Articles
- Simple In-Memory Caching in .NET – 72K+ views
- Understanding WebSockets with .NET – 40K+ views
- Distributed Caching in .NET – 30K+ views
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- Adding Intelligence to React Apps with Azure Cognitive Services – 2,000+ audience
- Tips for Junior Developers
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🧑💻 Check Out My Work
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📃 Publications
- Serasinghe, S. S. “iLSE – An Intelligent Web-Based System for Log Structuring and Extraction”, APSEC, China (2017)
- Serasinghe, S. S. “LogXtractor – An IDE for Log Structuring & Extraction”, Colombo, Sri Lanka (2016)
🏆 Awards & Recognition
- 🥇 Best Academic Research Paper – LogXtractor
- 🥈 Microsoft Imagine Cup National Finals – 1st Runner Up
- 🏅 Gold Medal for Outstanding Performance in Software Engineering
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💬 The thoughts shared here are mine and not necessarily those of my employer.