Jay Mannapperuma
Senior Software Developer at Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolJay Mannapperuma is a Senior Software Developer with over a decade of experience building full-stack and cloud-native systems, currently delivering government-grade solutions at Toitū Te Whenua in Wellington. He has led and mentored teams across enterprise projects—from automated broadband provisioning and a SaaS secure file-sharing platform at Todd Corporation to mission-critical clearing systems at LSEG—combining backend services in Spring/Kotlin and serverless AWS with modern React frontends. A pragmatic engineer with strong testing and CI/CD practices, he has driven code quality improvements, refactoring, and test automation while practicing trunk-based development and pair programming. His open-source pedigree includes a Google Summer of Code contribution to the widely used Catroid/Pocket Code Android project, where he implemented history features and strengthened UI tests. Known for bridging product and engineering, Jay pairs hands-on implementation with facilitation of agile ceremonies and customer-facing feedback loops to turn complex requirements into reliable, production-ready software.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc(Hons) Engineering Computer Science and Engineering, BSc(Hons) Engineering Computer Science and Engineering at University of MoratuwaGCE Advanced Level in Mathematics Stream with 3 As. District Rank - 42 Island Rank - 112, GCE Advanced Level in Mathematics Stream with 3 As. District Rank - 42 Island Rank - 112 at Nalanda College ColomboGCE Ordinary Level with 10 As, GCE Ordinary Level with 10 As at Thurstan College
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Github Skills (9)
uitest10
javas10
ui-testing10
android10
java10
testing10
robot9
php6
mysql6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Catrobat/Catroid
Apr 2014 - Aug 2014
Writing programs on an Android device without prior knowledge.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:25 commits, 1 PR in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jay primarily contributed to the Catroid project by adding and modifying test cases within the `catroidTest` directory, focusing on UI and functionality testing. Their work included testing the behavior of project loading, deletion of projects, and UI elements such as the Formula Editor. They also updated existing test cases to accommodate changes in the code.
knowledgeandroidkotlinprogramsjava
mj7007/Catroid
Mar 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
knowledgeandroidkotlinprogramsjava
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