Bilal Rifas
Senior Software Engineer at XITRICON
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolBilal Rifas is a Senior Software Engineer based in Dubai with eight years of experience building web and mobile applications, currently leading client projects at XITRICON. He combines a strong academic foundation—1st Class BE in Software Engineering and an MSc in IT—with hands-on expertise in React, Angular, Android, Firebase and modern web tooling. Bilal’s background spans full lifecycle delivery from UI/UX-focused web design to backend concurrency concerns, and he brings a practical understanding of Java concurrency from continuous professional certification. He also contributes technical writing on Medium and began his career working on the Ballerina language at WSO2, showing an early interest in language-level protocol work. Outside engineering he applies a creative lens through photography and graphic design, which informs his user-centered approach to product development.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Accounting/ Business / Information Technology, High School, Accounting/ Business / Information Technology at Wesley College, ColomboBachelor of Engineering - BE, Software Engineering, 1st Class Hons, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software Engineering, 1st Class Hons at University of WestminsterMaster's degree, Information Technology, Master's degree, Information Technology at Cardiff Metropolitan University
English, Tamil, Sinhala
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Github Skills (16)
cloud-native9
interpreter9
programming-language9
compiler9
ballerina8
gmail6
html6
css6
listener6
server6
webmail6
strongly-typed2
transactional2
python2
textual2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
BilalRifas/ballerina-lang
Jul 2018 - Jun 2019
Ballerina is a compiled, transactional, statically and strongly typed programming language with textual and graphical syntaxes.
Contributions:1 PR, 56 pushes, 6 branches in 11 months
ballerinatransactionalcompilergraphicalstrongly-typed
BilalRifas/WorkedUp
Feb 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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