Lakmal Premaratne
Managing Partner at Premia Labs
Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolLakmal Premaratne is a founder and seasoned software engineer with nine years of focused experience building full-stack applications and embedded IoT systems that connect industrial hardware to cloud services. He combines a physics and applied electronics background with hands-on firmware work on Arduino/ESP32 and Raspberry Pi, and backend/frontend expertise in PHP Laravel and React to deliver end-to-end solutions. As founder of Solar Care and AI Crucible, he has shipped operational platforms for solar installers and an Anthropic Claude-powered AI fluency program, demonstrating both product leadership and technical execution. His work often centers on tricky integration problems—MODBUS, REST APIs, Node-RED workflows and serial-level device orchestration—turning legacy industrial setups into real-time, monitored systems. He also mentors engineering teams, codifies application quality standards, and accelerates delivery with in-house frameworks and rapid prototyping tools. Pragmatic and curious, he blends domain knowledge of energy operations with a penchant for automating repetitive field processes to recover revenue and improve system reliability.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., B.Sc. at University of RuhunaMSc, MSc at University of ColomboMahinda College
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Github Skills (15)
laravel-blade6
authentication6
php6
timezone6
one-to-many6
laragon6
mysql6
react5
redux5
react-hooks4
typescript3
state-management3
backend3
laravel2
api2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lakmalp/backend-core
May 2022 - Mar 2025
backend-core
Contributions:102 releases, 276 PRs, 255 pushes in 2 years 11 months
backend-corebackend
lakmalp/mcgsis-server
Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
Student Information Management System
Contributions:1 release, 15 PRs, 23 pushes in 5 months
management-systemlearning-management-systeminformation-managementmysqlphp
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