Kasun Vithanage
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer at WaveZync
Matara, Southern Province, Sri Lanka
Summary
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Top SchoolKasun Vithanage is a hands-on CTO and serial founder with a decade of experience building backend-first platforms and lightweight cross-platform tooling from Sri Lanka. He co-founded WaveZync and previously led engineering at startups including Ingame and Syeta Labs, blending product-minded leadership with deep implementation work in Rust and modern web stacks. An active open-source contributor, Kasun has improved critical features in widely used projects like WSO2 API Manager (import/export, YAML and certificate handling) and added macOS support to Neutralinojs, showing fluency across backend, full-stack, and cross-platform native tooling. He also mentors in the Joomla ecosystem, bringing a background in cloud-enabled media tooling from his GSoC roots and a Computer Engineering degree from the University of Peradeniya.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at University of PeradeniyaMathematics, Mathematics at Rahula College
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Github Skills (38)
application-framework10
json10
api-management10
cms10
filesystem10
javascript10
c-language10
apidoc10
css10
app-framework10
cross-platform10
file-operations10
joomla10
java10
base64-encoding10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
joomla/joomla-cms
Apr 2017 - Apr 2018
Home of the Joomla! Content Management System
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:41 commits, 22 comments, 4 issues in 1 year
Contributions summary:Kasun primarily contributed to the media manager component of the Joomla CMS. They made several updates to the mediamanager.js file, fixing syntax errors, indentation issues, and resolving conflicts. They also implemented a "create folder" modal, ensuring it automatically gained focus and incorporated keypress functionality for closing. These changes suggest a focus on improving the user interface and workflow within the media management functionality.
cmsmanagement-systemjoomla-extensionsjoomla-componentphp
neutralinojs/neutralinojs
Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
Portable and lightweight cross-platform desktop application development framework
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 8 PRs, 3 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Kasun contributed to the development of the Neutralinojs framework by adding support for macOS (Darwin) across various core components, including JSON handling, logging, and file system interactions. They integrated necessary platform-specific code, such as file dialogs, and updated settings handling. Furthermore, the user updated logging prefixes to provide more descriptive information. The user also added an example application.
neutralinojsc-plus-plushttp-servernative-developmentcss
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