Hishara Weerasinghe
Lead Engineer at STEPHEN INNOVATIONS
Northampton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHishara Weerasinghe is a Lead Engineer and mobile specialist with eight years’ experience building scalable iOS and Android applications and guiding teams through full product lifecycles. He excels in Swift, UIKit and SwiftUI, applying Clean Architecture, MVVM-C and SOLID principles to deliver maintainable, testable code and reusable SDKs and libraries. At Stephen Innovations he created custom HTTP/image caching libraries, a dependency-injection layer using KeyPaths and property wrappers, and automated CI/CD pipelines to drastically cut release times. His background in embedded systems and Arduino projects informs practical cross-platform integrations and performance optimizations, from microcontroller firmware to mobile front ends. He holds an MSc in Computer Software Engineering and contributes open-source work and UI/UX designs publicly, reflecting a blend of engineering rigor and product-focused design. Colocated in Northampton, he’s known for mentoring teams, leading architecture migrations, and squeezing performance gains out of real-world apps.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Business/Commerce, General, Business/Commerce, General at Nalanda College ColomboMaster of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering at University of NorthamptonDiploma in Business Management, Information Technology and Business, Diploma in Business Management, Information Technology and Business at EDHat InternationalBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering at Coventry UniversityHigher National Diploma, Computer Science, Higher National Diploma, Computer Science at National Institute of Business Management (NIBM - Sri Lanka)Certificate in Agile Project Management, Certificate in Agile Project Management at BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
English, Sinhalese
Github Skills (44)
lottie10
react-native10
after-effects10
animation10
ipad10
render10
apple-tv10
bodymovin10
tvos10
android10
widgetkit10
apple-watch10
iphone10
watchos10
react10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hishd/hishd.github.io
Jun 2022 - Jan 2025
Official Portfolio Website
Contributions:4 PRs, 11 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 7 months
hishd/TinyCartKotlin
Jul 2022 - Dec 2024
Contributions:1 release, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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