Summary
Arunan Skanthan is a Web Development Lead based in Melbourne with 12 years of experience crafting usable, branded web experiences and rich internet applications. He combines interaction and graphic design sensibilities with deep front-end engineering skills (XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery) to lead UI teams and ship responsive, accessible interfaces across finance, healthcare and education sectors. Arunan has moved between hands-on freelance design work and senior engineering roles, shaping UX strategy, component libraries and production-ready front ends at organisations like Medibank and Latitude Financial Services. He also brings multimedia and print design roots—video/audio effects and publication layouts—that inform a polished, cross-channel approach to product design. Known for bridging creative direction and technical delivery, he focuses on reducing clutter and improving usability through pragmatic, standards-based code.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology, Computer Science and Software Development, Bachelor of Information Technology, Computer Science and Software Development at Deakin University
Royal College Colombo
Tamil, Sinhalese, English