Bhathiya Pathirathna
Lecturer at EDA College
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolBhathiya Pathirathna is a lecturer and Lean Six Sigma practitioner with 12 years of experience applying operational excellence, quality management and data-driven improvement across manufacturing and education. He has led Lean transformations and KPI-driven business planning for large apparel and aluminium operations, delivering measurable efficiency gains (e.g., 14% improvement in anodizing and powder coating) and establishing systems like Leaders Standard Work, Kaizen programs and VSM-backed process standardization. A seasoned trainer and coach, he has designed and delivered Lean curricula for industry and academic audiences and holds Black Belt and ISO Lead Auditor credentials alongside an MSc in International Business with Data Analytics. Early career software programming and his open-source contributions to jclouds — improving Google Cloud Storage integration and test coverage — reflect an unusual blend of hands-on technical ability and industrial systems thinking. Based in Birmingham, he now combines academic research and teaching with practical continuous-improvement leadership, translating complex operations into auditable, repeatable practices.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Certified Lean Trainer Lean Management, Certified Lean Trainer Lean Management at MAS Holdings | NIKEMaster of Business Management, Master of Business Management at University of Kelaniya Sri LankaISO Quality Management System Lead Auditor, ISO Quality Management System Lead Auditor at SGS - UKLean Six Sigma Black Belt, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt at Six Sigma Management Institute by Dr. Mikel J. HarryMaster of Science in International Business with Data Analytics with Advance Practices, Master of Science in International Business with Data Analytics with Advance Practices at Ulster UniversityLean Green Belt Lean Manufacturing, Lean Green Belt Lean Manufacturing at Toyota TSD
Github Skills (7)
google-cloud-storage10
gcp10
javas10
java10
test-automation10
testing10
rest-api9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jclouds/jclouds
Mar 2014 - Apr 2015
Read-only mirror of ASF Git Repo for jclouds
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:16 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Bhathiya contributed to the Google Cloud Storage (GCS) integration within the jclouds library. Their work focused on adding and improving testing for various GCS features, including object and bucket access controls, and basic object operations. This involved writing expect tests and live tests to validate the functionality of the GCS API. They also made improvements to support uploading files and metadata to GCS using multi-part upload and resumable upload features.
jcloudsgit-reporead-onlyasf
hsbhathiya/jclouds-labs
Jan 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:36 pushes, 33 branches in 10 months
jcloudsgit-reporead-onlyasf
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.