# Sahan Peiris

> Senior Software Engineer | Aurora Solar | UC Berkeley

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sahan

Full stack product engineer with experience working in fast paced teams and building products from the ground up.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Aurora Solar
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Quantcast
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked on building their new self serve platform and helped take it from alpha to GA

- Led and owned multiple cross team projects to bring customer-facing features into the platform each quarter (Timezone Support, Custom Pacing, Viewability Thresholds, Frequency Caps, Device Targeting) 
- Core member involved in developing a prototype called Insights Lab which allowed Modeling/Data Science teams to funnel valuable data insights to clients. Insights Lab was later integrated into the platform and became one of the platform's highest engagement features.
- Core contributor to a new in house frontend component library built on top of antd/react. Promoted use of the library across the product teams and was responsible for migrating all existing components on Ads Manager to use the new library.
* Code Owner to the Ads Manager SPA, enforcing best design principles, small bundle times, fast renders and code quality.

### Software Engineer @ Quantcast
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Lead Software Engineer @ findera (Yozio)
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Worked on building the findera product from ground up that allowed users to search and filter through 100 million profiles.
- Managed the end to end design architecture and implementation of several high impact growth projects such as exports and lists.
- Introduced React to the frontend codebase.
- Directed the design and implementation of the search API which was hit by ~90% of incoming requests.
- Handled application app verification process through Google.
- Developed several admin tools and interfaces to enable the customer success team to be notified and respond to client inquiries and concerns.
- Worked on setting up an in-house, physical elasticsearch cluster to run most of the data processing work previously done on AWS that reduced cost for findera. Further optimized cluster by identifying and smoothing bottlenecks within the system.
- Designed and implemented an automated worker system to batch process 5TB of elasticsearch documents.
- Developed internal CLI tools to help developers rapidly set up templates and initialize web-crawling and data extraction projects.
- Worked on the design and implementation of several web crawlers at the scale of several million requests per day.

### Software Engineer @ Yozio
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Yozio provided mobile install and event tracking and was used by companies such as Pinterest, Airbnb and Etsy.
• Implemented a link creation wizard that helped customers create and customize Yozio Superlinks.
• Designed an iOS demo app to showcase Yozio deep linking and event tracking capabilities for the sales team to demonstrate the different use cases for ecommerce.
• Facilitated SDK integration and dependency management for customers by bundling the Yozio iOS SDK into a cocoapod.
• Wrote callbacks for partner mobile ad-networks.
• Worked with client developers to troubleshoot and integrate the Yozio SDK.

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Javascript, Postgres, DynamoDB, PHP


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015

### Associate of Science (A.S.) in Computer Science
Santa Barbara City College
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sahanpeiris

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Last updated: 2026-03-22