At Saltside, I worked on architecting and rewriting the saltside sites (https://bikroy.com, https://ikman.lk, https://tonaton.com) as responsive Single Page Applications. I was responsible to analyze the business requirements and make the initial technology decisions for frontend. Site performance was one of the key requirements when doing the rewrite. We also tried our best to keep the site as accessible as possible to people with disabilities.The main challenges involved in the… Show more At Saltside, I worked on architecting and rewriting the saltside sites (https://bikroy.com, https://ikman.lk, https://tonaton.com) as responsive Single Page Applications. I was responsible to analyze the business requirements and make the initial technology decisions for frontend. Site performance was one of the key requirements when doing the rewrite. We also tried our best to keep the site as accessible as possible to people with disabilities.The main challenges involved in the rewrite wereWriting code which worked for all three markets.Server rendering the react code with good code splitting. Server rendering was a strict requirement because of SEO.Having small JavaScript bundle sizes as our users were mostly in countries with low bandwidth internet connections.The sites had to work responsively across mobile and desktop. Keeping the bundle size small while working seamlessly on mobile and desktop very challenging.The site should use semantic html to be accessible to people with disabilities.I was also responsible for mentoring the team members in writing idiomatic html, css, javascript and typescript. We built our own component library from scratch. This gave us full control over the components. We could keep the components small since they were built for our specific requirements. We still made the code generic enough for extensibility.I was also responsible for onboarding new members to the new code base. Onboarding new developers gave me key insights into the complexity of modern frontend development.Technologies usedHTML, CSS, SassTypeScriptReact (ReactJS) and preactjs (with server side rendering) for UIredux for state managementnode.js - for serving static content, server side rendering, and a proxy for API endpointsJest for unit testingCypress for functional testing Show less

- Rewrote the frontend for the commenting system used on projectplace.com from scratch. The commenting system is now used on every tool on the site.- Rewrote the frontend for documents management system on projectplace.com from scratch.Wrote the frontend for a new tool, called roadmap, (along with a colleague) on projectplace.com.- Moved the build system for our frontend code from gulp based tasks to webpack.- Brought in a number of functional programming ideas into the frontend… Show more - Rewrote the frontend for the commenting system used on projectplace.com from scratch. The commenting system is now used on every tool on the site.- Rewrote the frontend for documents management system on projectplace.com from scratch.Wrote the frontend for a new tool, called roadmap, (along with a colleague) on projectplace.com.- Moved the build system for our frontend code from gulp based tasks to webpack.- Brought in a number of functional programming ideas into the frontend community at projectplace.- Was engineering manager for frontend team for a year Show less

As a freelancer, i did a project for TP Vision from Nov 2013 - Feb 2014.Built an authentication/reporting server for android based smart TVs (by TPVision). The smart tvs in question would be able to enjoy other services in the tv only after authenticating with a central server. This server is designed to handle upto 10-20 million television authentications in a day. The authentication is digest based and sends across a 11kb payload as response.The server handles 600 requests per… Show more As a freelancer, i did a project for TP Vision from Nov 2013 - Feb 2014.Built an authentication/reporting server for android based smart TVs (by TPVision). The smart tvs in question would be able to enjoy other services in the tv only after authenticating with a central server. This server is designed to handle upto 10-20 million television authentications in a day. The authentication is digest based and sends across a 11kb payload as response.The server handles 600 requests per second running on a 4 core i7 machine with 2 gb RAM. Show less

• Architected and deployed the web/server part of the Advertisement funded Movie channel(PPV) in Airtel DTH network. The portal ads.brizztv.com would be used by the AD agencies to buy advertisement and schedule slots. These advertisements are scheduled automatically and are ingested into the broadcasting system and would be presented to the user during those time slots automatically. The product is live in Airtel DTH Network.• I was part of the core team for development and deployment… Show more • Architected and deployed the web/server part of the Advertisement funded Movie channel(PPV) in Airtel DTH network. The portal ads.brizztv.com would be used by the AD agencies to buy advertisement and schedule slots. These advertisements are scheduled automatically and are ingested into the broadcasting system and would be presented to the user during those time slots automatically. The product is live in Airtel DTH Network.• I was part of the core team for development and deployment of the web connected portion of iEXAM. This system connects the satellite head-end system of Airtel to the iExam app hosted in the amazon cloud services. I played the key role of architecting the enterprise solution for connecting our systems to Airtel Subscriber management system and their SMS gateway.• I head the mobile development initiative of the company and expert in Android development. To name a few apps developed by our team are mCube(financial tracking/management app), Travel planner app. Show less

Worked as a business analyst and a business consultant for requirement gathering for various multi million dollar projects.Worked on projects for companies like Microsoft and Apple technologies. Worked on one of the biggest internal sales application inside Apple.