About Me
A degree-educated developer with three academic qualifications in the field, with working knowledge in many web and hybrid mobile technologies, such as React.js, Angular, React Native and Flutter. An engineer who stays up to date on recent technologies and inventions in the fields of science and technology, who constantly revises software best practices and user experience guidelines. A blogger at two popular online news platforms, with articles in multiple technical topics. An award-winning event organizer of hackathons, with experience in chairing tech conferences.
Experience
Housekeep
Frontend Engineer Nov. 2022 - Present
Developed features and improvements to the Housekeeper and Customer mobile applications.
Switchd Ltd.
Senior Developer Feb. 2022 - Nov. 2022
Completed the AWS Migration of EC2, RDS and S3 services of MakeMyHouseGreen. Defined and developed the company's coding and testing protocols. Mentored junior developers.
Web Developer Sept. 2020 - Feb. 2022
Owner of front-end development of company products, Switchd and MakeMyHouseGreen. Implemented company finance processes using Xero APIs, saving 75% finance admin time. Developed functionality to reduce admin time on green home product installations by 50% for MakeMyHouseGreen.
Capitol Overseas Courier Service Pvt. (Ltd.)
Freelancer June 2017 - Aug. 2020
Designed and implemented the company website and invoicing and internal operating systems using ASP.NET Core technologies. Redesigned old MSSQL database, to a smaller, less redundant set of tables.
99x
Intern July 2018 - July 2019
Worked as a Software Engineering Intern on a cross-platform React Native mobile application. Designed and implemented the updated React Native mobile app UI designs. Principal Engineer of company project first-born, a React Native UI Component Library and Framework. Created the second React Native mobile app skeleton with Redux and React Navigation. Setup the development pipeline using Jenkins to run Jest unit tests before branch merging.
Education
Queen Mary University London
M(Sc.) Computer Science Sept. 2020 - Oct. 2022
Awarded MSc with Distinction for a 2-year part-time Computer Science postgraduate degree, studying Functional Programming, Interactive System Design, Mobile Services and Design for Human Interaction.
University of Westminster
B(Eng.) Software Engineering Sept. 2016 - July 2020
Awarded First Class Honours for a 4-year Software Engineering undergraduate degree offered by the University of Westminster, UK, in partnership with the Informatics Institute of Technology, Sri Lanka.
OpenClassrooms
Bachelor Diploma as Frontend Developer Sept. 2019 - May 2020
OpenClassrooms is Europe's largest online education platform recognized as a higher education institution. The course is project-driven, focusing on students to learn by putting concepts into practice. It connects students with industry professionals for 1 to 1 mentorship on a weekly basis. Completed all 9 projects ranging from a WordPress application, an HTML-based game, to a React.js restaurant review website.
Projects
I have experience in multiple technologies, though my fields of interest is HCI, UX, Web and Hybrid Mobile technologies.
For a list of my projects in those fields, please click here.
Tools and Technologies
Basic Intermediate Advanced
React.js React Native PHP HTML5/CSS JavaScript MySQL Java Firebase Ionic Figma Flutter Python Flask Angular ASP.NET Jest Jasmine C# MSSQL MongoDB Node.js Adobe Photoshop
Volunteering
IEEE Computer Society Student Chapter of IIT
Secretary Oct. 2017 - July 2018
Secretary of inaugural student chapter. Organized CodeSprint 3.0, a month-long accelerator for start-ups created by University students in Sri Lanka, to pitch to investors and get funding for their technological solutions. The project won the Best Student Branch activities award at the 2018 IEEE Congress, Sri Lanka.
Competitions
JumpStart by Achievers Lanka Business School
Runner Up Dec. 2017
CIMA Launch Pad
Finalist Nov. 2017
TadHack Sri Lanka
Runner Up Oct. 2017
Blog Posts
I have published articles in popular platforms on the topic of mobile technology.
For a full list of my blog posts, please click here.