Isira Seneviratne
Software Engineer at Virtusa
Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolIsira Seneviratne is a software engineer with eight years’ experience building and modernizing Java and Python applications across cloud-native environments. He has migrated monoliths to microservices and worked with Spring, FastAPI/Flask, AWS and Azure, plus CI/CD—currently contributing at Virtusa on React, FastAPI and cloud projects. A strong Android contributor in the open-source ecosystem, Isira has modernized widely used apps and libraries (jsoup, NewPipe, StreetComplete, Wikimedia Android) by introducing Java 8 patterns, AndroidX migrations and view-binding improvements. He combines backend type-hinting and async-focused work in Python with practical mobile UX and system-service enhancements, showing fluency across full-stack concerns. Columbo-based and Curtin-educated, he’s driven by continuous learning and incremental refactors that measurably improve maintainability and platform compatibility.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Gateway College Sri LankaBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering at SLIITBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering at Curtin University
English, French, Sinhalese
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Github Skills (74)
mobile-development10
jsoup10
python10
expressions10
testing10
javas10
junit10
crawler10
extractor10
flask10
code-readability10
apache-commons10
commons10
youtube10
flask-ask10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
BOINC/boinc
Mar 2020 - Dec 2020
Open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:41 reviews, 572 commits, 177 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Isira primarily converted functional interface declarations to lambda expressions in several Android application fragments, including ProjectsFragment, PrefsFragment, NoticesFragment, SplashActivity, and TasksFragment. This conversion demonstrates the user's proficiency in modernizing and improving the readability of Java code within the BOINC Android application. Furthermore, they used new strings in Project and detail fragments and updated the code to reflect these changes. They also addressed code quality issues through the update to use new strings and refactoring of code.
pythonsciencehigh-performance-computingphpscientific-computing
KDE/kdeconnect-android
Jul 2020 - Aug 2022
Native Android port of the KDE Connect Qt app
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:85 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Isira primarily contributed to the Android application's codebase by implementing Java 8 features such as the Date/Time API and Streams API, and also refactored existing code. They focused on improving the app's functionality, including adding support for Java 8 API desugaring and replacing legacy APIs. Furthermore, the user applied various improvements and code optimizations, such as replacing implementations with lambda expressions, utilizing ContextCompat methods, using TextUtils methods, and refactoring UI components using vector drawables and view binding.
kdeandroid-nativeandroid
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