About Me
A degree-educated developer with three academic qualifications and working knowledge of web technologies. An engineer who stays up to date on recent technologies and 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
- Improved internal architecture of frontend repositories reducing duplication of code and establishing a single source of truth.
- Improved SEO score and page speed on marketing website by 50%
- Increased unit testing coverage by 50% on owned app project.
- Developed features and maintained a self-contained React/Next.js project.
- Owned development and release process of native mobile apps.
Switchd Ltd.
Senior Developer Feb. 2022 - Nov. 2022
- Defined and developed the company's coding and testing protocols.
- Mentored junior developers during the beginning of their role.
- Implemented company finance processes using Xero APIs, saving 75% finance admin time.
- Completed the AWS Migration of EC2, RDS and S3 services of MakeMyHouseGreen.
Web Developer Sept. 2020 - Feb. 2022
- Owner of front-end development of company products, Switchd and MakeMyHouseGreen.
- Redesigned marketing site for brand update, increasing engagement by 20%
- 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 for unit testing.
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.
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.
Tools and Technologies
IonicAngularReactReact NativeTypeScriptJavaScriptPythonPHPHTML5/CSS3MySQLFirebaseFigmaJestJasmine
Projects
first-born
A React Native UI framework consisting of inbuilt components developed using Atomic design, with over 1000 downloads and over 200 stars on GitHub. This highly customizable library allows UI components to render separately according to the underlying platform, following platform UX guidelines, reducing the work of front-end developers.
A blog post demonstrating its usage can be found here.
FritzExample
A React Native app that uses the Fritz.ai SDK, a native library, to perform image processing through art style transfer to images.
The blog post demonstrating and explaining this project can be found here.
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.