Janith Kasun
Technical Lead at Ascentic
Western Province, Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolJanith Kasun is a Technical Lead with 10 years of experience building full-stack web applications and leading teams across React, TypeScript, Node.js and DevOps. Currently steering engineering at Ascentic and lecturing in mechatronics, he blends hands-on development with mentoring and R&D curiosity. His background spans senior frontend and full-stack roles at firms like Allion and DirectFN, and he contributed backend robustness improvements to the widely used matrix-js-sdk open-source project. A remote-work advocate and avid learner who also writes and games, Janith is known for pragmatic refactors, improving logging and API correctness, and turning exploratory research into production-quality features.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at Isipathana College - Colombo 05Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at University of Westminster
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
matrix10
sdk10
api-design9
dropdown-menu9
nodejs9
socket9
debugging8
html6
tcp-socket6
angular6
fs6
asynchronous6
socket-io6
node-module6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Matrix Client-Server SDK for JavaScript
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 20 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Janith primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the matrix-js-sdk, focusing on improving the codebase's robustness. Their commits involved refactoring code to use PUT requests instead of POST requests, fixing argument handling in a function, and correcting JSDoc documentation. In addition, the user updated logging practices to use loglevel within the codebase.
client-serverjavascriptmatrix-sdkmatrixmatrix-chat
jkasun/stack-abuse-express-authentication
Dec 2019 - Aug 2022
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 8 months
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