Lakmal Padmakumara
Area Product Owner, Software Platform Automated Driving
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolLakmal Padmakumara is an Area Product Owner specializing in software platforms for automated driving with 10 years of experience bridging hands-on engineering and product strategy. With an MS from TUM and a CS background from University of Moratuwa, he pairs technical depth (full‑stack and test automation) with certified agile product leadership (CSM, CSPO) across automotive, mobility and IIoT domains. He has led product and UX initiatives at BMW and Siemens, digitalizing rail infrastructure and shaping cloud-native IIoT experiences while coaching R&D teams in Scrum and Kanban. A former Google Summer of Code contributor, he still experiments with new tech on GitHub and has practical back-end/test contributions to the well-known TEAMMATES education project. Colleagues describe him as customer-obsessed and design-minded, able to translate complex safety-critical requirements into pragmatic delivery roadmaps. Based in Munich, he combines startup curiosity with enterprise-scale execution across cross-functional teams.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Technical University MunichSummer School Participant, Computer Science, Summer School Participant, Computer Science at National University of SingaporePrimary School, Primary School at President College HomagamaBSc, Computer Science & Engineering, BSc, Computer Science & Engineering at University of MoratuwaTechnology Management & Entreprenurship, Technology Management & Entreprenurship at Center for Digital Technology and ManagementHigh School, Mathematics, High School, Mathematics at Royal College Colombo
English, Sinhalese, German
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Github Skills (16)
javas10
junit10
java10
testing10
github9
javascript9
apache-spark6
extjs6
control-systems6
firefox6
dictionary6
amazon-s36
dataframe6
ruby6
user-feedback6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
TEAMMATES/teammates
Mar 2016 - Nov 2016
This is the project website for the TEAMMATES feedback management tool for education
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:41 commits, 42 PRs, 255 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Lakmal primarily contributed to the back-end of the TEAMMATES project by adding and modifying test cases to cover various search functionalities. They improved the test suite by including test cases to handle special characters in student names. Additionally, the user made code changes to the student search functionality, adding sort options based on term frequency. They also addressed issues related to instructor search results.
cssjavascriptteammatesfeedback-systemsproject-website
rclakmal/rclakmal.github.io
Dec 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:13 PRs, 963 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 3 months
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