Kanchana Godage
Designer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKanchana Godage is a Senior/Lead UX Designer based in London with 8 years of experience blending design craft and front-end engineering to deliver polished, accessible products. She has shipped user-facing components and illustrations for notable open-source projects such as WSO2 Identity Apps, adding localization and improving interaction details like tab order and transfer components. Comfortable moving between prototyping, UI implementation, and user research, she brings a UX engineering mindset that helps teams turn ideas into working interfaces quickly. Her background spans product companies and consultancy engagements, giving her experience across healthcare, identity, and platform tooling. Kanchana’s marketing and brand roles early in her career add a strategic, customer-focused lens to her design decisions. She’s committed to pragmatic design that balances visual clarity, developer collaboration, and real-world delivery.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
UX Designing and User Researching, UX Designing and User Researching at The Interaction Design FoundationBachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology at University of Sri Jayewardenepura
Github Skills (14)
html10
uid10
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types9
identity9
ui-design9
typescript9
typescripts9
user-interface8
graphical-user-interface8
localization7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wso2/identity-apps
Apr 2020 - Dec 2020
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 21 commits, 11 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Kanchana primarily focused on front-end development tasks, including implementing UI components and redesigning existing illustrations. They added icons and placeholder illustrations, implemented a default connector illustration, and redesigned illustrations within the "myaccount" application. Furthermore, they fixed tab order issues and improved tab functionality. They also added Sinhala localization to the console app and improved the transfer component.
identity
kanchanagodage/identity-apps
Apr 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:39 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 7 months
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