Chamupathi Hettige
Associate Technical Lead
Matara, Southern Province, Sri Lanka
Summary
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Top SchoolChamupathi Hettige is an Associate Technical Lead and entrepreneur with eight years of diverse experience spanning software engineering, cybersecurity R&D, and education. He combines hands-on contributions to notable open-source projects like the Ballerina language and website—improving compiler formatting and frontend code-highlighting—with practical security work that reduced successful network attacks. A First Class Software Engineering graduate from the University of Westminster, he also teaches at IIT and runs a higher-education institute and a startup, blending technical depth with operational leadership. Known for thriving in challenging environments, Chamupathi brings a unique mix of compiler-level backend work, frontend fixes, and applied cybersecurity expertise to deliver reliable, secure systems.
8 years of coding experience
CISCO, Passed, CISCO, Passed at University of MoratuwaRahula College - MataraB.Eng (Hons), Software Engineering, First Class Honour, B.Eng (Hons), Software Engineering, First Class Honour at University of WestminsterHuman Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General, Passed, Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General, Passed at Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM).
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
highlight10
compiler-development10
abstract-syntax-tree10
syntax-highlighter10
parse-tree10
highlighter10
language-server10
front-end-development10
highlighting10
ballerina10
syntax-highlighting10
code-formatting10
nextjs9
html6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang
Sep 2019 - Nov 2022
The Ballerina Programming Language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 275 commits, 68 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Chamupathi primarily contributed to the Ballerina Programming Language's compiler, specifically focusing on the formatting aspect of the language server. The user implemented and improved formatting support for language elements like variable declarations, function arguments, and function visibility qualifiers. Their work involved modifying the FormattingTreeModifier class and adding support for various syntax tree nodes, improving the overall code formatting capabilities of the language server.
compilerprogramming-languageinterpreterballerinaballerina-lang
ballerina-platform/ballerina-dev-website
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Dev version of the ballerina.io website
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 17 commits, 2 PRs in 21 days
Contributions summary:Chamupathi primarily focused on fixing Shiki loading issues and other minor bugs within the Ballerina website's frontend components, particularly those related to code highlighting. They modified code snippets within the homepage and other pages to fix these issues. The user also updated the import statements and modified code generation scripts.
ballerinadev
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