Chanaka Jayamal
Engineer at Scrapinghub
Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolChanaka Jayamal is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience, known for promoting GNU/Linux and FOSS through blogging and podcasting while building production-grade systems. Currently an Engineer at Scrapinghub and Lead Developer at feedIO, he specializes in Python, C, and C++ and focuses on web scraping and robust backend tooling. Based in Sri Lanka, he combines hands-on coding with community advocacy, often sharing practical insights into open-source workflows. His background includes a B.Sc (Special Honours) in Information Technology from SLIIT and a long-running commitment to evangelizing free software that informs both his technical choices and developer outreach.
15 years of coding experience
Rajapakse Central CollegeB.Sc (Special Honours), Information Technology, B.Sc (Special Honours), Information Technology at Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology
English, Sinhalese
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Github Skills (6)
feed10
aggregator10
python9
text-classification9
javascript8
react8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
seejay/feedIO
May 2011 - Oct 2022
A Feed Aggregator that Knows What You Want to Read.
Contributions:68 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 11 years 7 months
reactpythonjavascriptnews-readerknows
seejay/curlconverter
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
convert curl commands to Python, JavaScript, PHP, R, Go, Rust, Dart, JSON, Ansible, Elixir
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
golangjson-dartpythoncurl-commandsrust
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