Hasala Dharmawardena
Past Chair IEEE Young Professionals
Greer, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolHasala Dharmawardena is an electric power engineer and leader with nine years of hands-on experience in power system modeling, design, construction, and commissioning, currently supporting North America's bulk power reliability at NERC. He combines deep first-principles expertise across steady-state, quasi-static, transient and EMT analyses with practical field experience and software/hardware tool proficiency developed across three continents. A Clemson PhD candidate with an NTNU master’s and a strong academic-industry-research background, he has led large IEEE initiatives—representing 100,000+ young professionals and serving as liaison to the IEEE Board—demonstrating uncommon scale in volunteer leadership. Hasala has launched education programs that trained thousands of early-career engineers and consistently blends technical problem solving with socio-economic perspectives on sustainable grids. Comfortable working in multicultural, interdisciplinary teams after living on four continents, he is driven by a mission to design equitable, sustainable power systems that serve basic human needs. Beyond engineering, his track record in organizational building and public advocacy marks him as a pragmatic change-maker in the power and energy sector.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Clemson UniversityBachelor's degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical Engineering at University of MoratuwaNorwegian University of Science and Technology
Norwegian
Github Skills (4)
infosec1
cybersecurity1
threat-intelligence1
testing1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hasalaid/DEROpenDSSTestFeeder
May 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
hasalaid/planets-1
May 2018 - May 2018
Test Github functions
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push in 1 day
testing
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