Kalpa Welivitigoda

Kalpa Welivitigoda has a decade of work experience in the software engineering industry. In 2021, they began working as a Senior Software Engineer at NextLabs, Inc. Prior to this, they were the Co-Founder at YUGA from 2019-2021. From 2017-2019, they worked as a Senior Software Engineer and Software Engineer at In Mind Cloud. From 2014-2017, they were a Senior Software Engineer and Software Engineer at WSO2. In 2013, they were a Web Developer at the Moraspirit Initiative. From 2012-2013, they were the Junior Treasurer at the Electrical Engineering Society and the Treasurer at the IEEE Student Branch University of Moratuwa. In 2012, they were a Trainee Electrical Engineer at both the Ceylon Electricity Board and the Lanka Electricity Company Private Limited. Finally, in 2010, they were an Assistant Editor (Events) at FOSS User Magazine.

Kalpa Welivitigoda's education history includes a BSc (Hons) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, which they completed between 2009 and 2013. Kalpa also attended Richmond College between 1994 and 2007. Additionally, they have obtained several certifications, including Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Foundations and Workloads from Coursera in 2021, Getting Started With Application Development from Coursera in 2021, Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure from Coursera in 2021, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2020, and Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 6 Programmer from Oracle.