Shanika is a technical consultant and writer with over eight years of experience as a Software Engineer in the IT sector. Her professional journey started as a Software Engineer with WSO2. At the same time, she started working as a freelancer on Upwork. She has collaborated with numerous companies throughout her freelance career, including Digication, Splunk, BMC.com, Filestack, LogicMonitor, APILayer, Flosum, Blazemeter, Sencha, and over twenty others. Having opportunities to work with various companies in different roles has allowed her to amass a wealth of experience. Shanika is an expert in Web Scraping, Internet Privacy, Cybersecurity, Data Mining, and Software Development. Shanika received her B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.