Lasantha Samarakoon
Software Engineer at WSO2
Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
Summary
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RockstarLasantha Samarakoon is a software engineer based in Colombo with 10 years of hands-on experience across full-stack and back-end development. He has contributed to notable open-source WSO2 projects, improving front-end UX in React and strengthening back-end permission, authentication, and runtime plumbing for APIs and messaging. Comfortable refactoring for SSO, externalizing DB scripts, and implementing AsyncAPI and WebSub features, he blends practical engineering with system-level thinking. Colleagues rely on him to untangle permission models and fix nuanced UI/UX bugs in complex editor and dashboard interfaces. Outside code, he pursues cookery, travel, and photography, which inform a creative, user-centered approach to problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
api-rest10
javascript10
back-end-development10
api-design10
restful-api10
permission10
user-interface10
java10
javas10
api10
sql10
rest-api10
access-management10
rights-management10
react10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
wso2/carbon-analytics
Nov 2017 - Mar 2022
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 123 commits, 77 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Lasantha primarily contributed to the front-end development of the application, as evidenced by the addition of cookie policy information to login pages within React components. Further, the user addressed styling issues, improving the user interface in the editor's designer view and activity explorer dashboard widgets. They also fixed issues related to the display and functionality of specific components within the Siddhi editor.
wso2/carbon-apimgt
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:55 reviews, 107 commits, 59 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Lasantha's commits primarily focus on implementing the UI for AsyncAPI, indicating a back-end development role. The commits introduce new backend APIs for topics, add runtime configurations for websub and fix existing ones. This includes modifications to existing Java code, as well as React components. Further changes show modifications to enhance the functionality of web socket and server-sent events.
api-management
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