Samurdhi Munasinghe

Software architect and engineer with over 20 years' experience delivering high-quality, scalable applications across ecommerce, healthcare, property, security and gaming sectors. Comfortable owning a project end-to-end - from system architecture and database design through to deployment, CI/CD and team leadership - with a proven record leading teams, presenting to senior stakeholders and delivering production-grade software in fast-paced UK environments. Alongside this commercial experience, brings hands-on exposure to multidisciplinary research projects with academic and international partners, spanning wellbeing, dyslexia and AI-assisted healthcare.

Distinctive strength: building AI/ML-integrated systems, including a production computer-vision content-screening pipeline, delivering measurable business impact alongside core architecture work.

Software Engineer / Software Architect - Video Platform (Greenfield Gaming Platform)

(2025-02)

Leading architecture and development of a greenfield, multi-device gaming platform within a lean small team, taking full-stack ownership across backend, frontend and DevOps.

• Improved application performance by 58% by integrating Laravel Octane into the platform.
• Built and integrated a machine learning / computer vision content-screening module (PyTorch, OpenCV, YOLO, NudeNet) to automatically detect and screen video content, reducing manual monitoring time and effort by 70%.
• Delivered a companion research-based wellbeing platform (Node.js/Express) supporting surveys, journaling and analytics reporting.
• Designed a comprehensive REST API layer for seamless cross-device game access and built an integrated CMS for games, players, accounts and scoring.

Software Engineer - Friend MTS (UK) - Video Security Provider

(2022-09 - 2025-01)

• Refactored the existing web-scanning mechanism, improving performance by 35%.
• Maintained and extended three business-critical systems, ensuring accuracy and robustness against evolving demands.
• Developed and maintained automated worker scripts on AWS Linux servers using Supervisor for reliable background processing.
• Wrote and ran PHPUnit test suites locally (with Xdebug) and on staging to guarantee code quality prior to release.

Lead Developer - MakeUrMove Ltd - Manchester

(2018-03 - 2022-08)

• Led a full front-to-back revamp of the website and landlord/tenant portal, improving scalability and user experience - a contributing factor in the company being named Property Tech Company of the Year 2021.
• Grew from sole developer managing all AWS environments (Staging, UAT, Production) into Lead Developer as the team scaled, mentoring and guiding junior developers.
• Owned system-wide technical responsibility, reporting weekly/monthly progress directly to company directors.
• Led implementation of GDPR-compliant data handling and integrated the platform with major UK property advertising portals and third-party APIs.

PHP Developer - Now Healthcare Group Ltd - Media City

(2017-09 - 2018-02)

• Delivered new features, improvements and fixes across four linked systems: two patient portals, a doctor portal and a pharmacy/admin system.
• Built API integrations connecting the portals to multiple centralised core and pharmacy databases; deployed and managed applications via Microsoft Azure.

Senior Software Developer - Entertainment Apps & Tech Ltd - Preston

(2015-02 - 2017-09)

• Designed system and database architecture; provisioned and configured AWS cloud servers and LAMP environments.
• Owned full SDLC for a UK properties platform (Laravel/MySQL), including a REST API for cross-system communication; built a sports data feed system using CakePHP.

PHP Developer - Parker Sandford Ltd - Wigan

(2013-08 - 2015-01)

• Built a full e-commerce platform (bespoke PHP/MySQL) covering catalogue, purchasing, supplier/courier API integration, stock management and reporting.
• Developed ATTAIN, a Symfony2/MongoDB multi-channel marketing SaaS with automated statistical and client reporting.

Software Engineer - KBSL Information Technologies - Colombo

(2011 - 2013)

IVR solutions (Avaya, Java, Oracle) for a major mobile network provider.

Team Lead - Lanka-Cat (Pvt) Ltd - Colombo

(2009 - 2010)

Led a 4-person Agile team building a multi-tier CRM for international call centres.

Web Developer - LankaCom (Pvt) Ltd & Jetwing UK Ltd - Colombo, London

(2005 - 2009)

Full-stack websites for established Sri Lankan and UK travel clients.

MSc - Consolidated Banking Payment System - SLITT (2012 - 2012)

BIT - Bachelor of Information Technology - University of Colombo (2006 - 2006)