chandika mahawatte

technical solutions architect

About

An accomplished Trading Systems Engineer with over 12 years of industry experience, with proven ability to successfully provide production support, and manage new implementations. An assertive, and diligent individual, who contributes to the organization with forward thinking, and thought-leadership leveraging the experience gained working with the tier-one Stock Exchanges in the world. Professional Skills Summary:  Trading platform implementation  Release Management  Team Management & Leadership skills  Non Functional Testing  Linux System Administration  Application Support  SDLC  Change Management  Technical Project Management Technical Skills Summary:  Unix/Linux low latency tuning  Oracle & PL/SQL  Shell / Perl scripting  Networking ( Ethernet / Infiniband)  FIX Protocol  Application performance tuning  Multicast  Fault Tolerance Configurations / Testing  Market Data

Country

sri lanka

City

sri lanka

Industry

computer software

Skill

trading, solaris, market data, shell scripting, linux, suse, unix, data center, netbackup, vmware, dns, tcp/ip, vmware esx, unix shell scripting, virtualization, red hat linux, high availability, oracle, testing, networking, sdlc, itil foundation certification, databases, requirements analysis, operating systems, windows server, sql, devops, continuous delivery, continuous build, version control tools, build automation

Experience

technical solutions architect

london stock exchange group (lseg)

2019-9 - Present · 7 yrs 1 mo

associate architect

millenniumit

2005-9 - Present · 21 yrs 1 mo

senior systems engineer

millenniumit

2012-5 - Present · 14 yrs 5 mos

Managing an exceptionally talented team of Application Support Engineers with a strong base in UNIX / Linux (SuSE / Red Hat) platforms, advance scripting skills (Bash, Perl), a deep understanding of how the OS (Linux), and Application layers interface with the Network layers, and the Database (Oracle SE & EE). The team is accountable for providing support to the in-house developed ultra-low latency trading application, which is deployed in multiple Tier 1 stock exchanges in the world.

systems engineer

millenniumit

2010-4 - 2012-5 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Role: Onsite Implementation Engineer Responsibilities: Perform hardware certification testing, application installation and configuration, SuSE Linux OS Level performance tuning, Daily Life Cycle automation via Perl scripts and Control-M integration, Defining Fault Tolerance and CPU affinity schemes for application processes, L3 support for UAT and go-live period, and defining network & firewall configuration policies for the customer facing and internal networks. Project Involved: Borsa Italiana Trading Platform Implementation, Milan, Italy - 2012 London Stock Exchange and Turquoise MTF Trading Platform Implementation - 2010

systems support engineer

indian commodity exchange

2008-6 - 2010-4 · 1 yr 11 mos

Role: Onsite Implementation Engineer Responsibilities : Implementation and Operation of Indian Commodity Exchange Trading Platform

systems support engineer

american stock exchange

2005-9 - 2008-12 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Role: Onsite Application Support Engineer/ Fault Tolerance Specialist Responsibilities: Implementation and Operations of Auctions and Electronic Market Integration (AEMI) hybrid Trading platform

systems administrator

shell gas lanka

2004-9 - 2005-9 · 1 yr 1 mo

Shell Gas Lanka Limited, Systems/Network Administrator| October 2004 – September 2005 Role: Systems/Network Security Administrator Responsibilities: Managing and supporting the organization’s WAN/LAN infrastructure, Windows Server 2003 / 2000/ NT administration, Application server management, Backup/Restore and security, ACL / Firewall rule configurations