Mehan Jayasuriya
Senior Program Officer at Mozilla
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMehan Jayasuriya is a product and program leader with 14 years of experience managing portfolios that exceed $10M in annual revenue and launching flagship products and programs at Mozilla. Based in Portland, he blends hands-on full-stack contributions—such as maintaining Mozilla's bedrock MOSS site and improving program-facing content—with strategic program oversight as Senior Program Officer. His background spans product management, academia, and policy, including roles at General Assembly and NYU, giving him a rare mix of technical, educational, and policy-savvy perspectives. Mehan is skilled at turning complex stakeholder needs into clear program guidelines and updated user-facing documentation, as shown by his work modernizing MOSS FAQs and application guidance. He brings a global outlook informed by early international experience in Japan and a humanities foundation from the University of Chicago paired with an interactive telecommunications master’s from NYU. Colleagues know him for practical execution, cross-functional leadership, and quietly improving the user experience behind major open-source community programs.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Interactive Telecommunications, Master's degree, Interactive Telecommunications at New York UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), East Asian Languages and Civilizations at The University of Chicago
English
Github Skills (8)
html10
amazon-bedrock10
mozilla10
django10
bitrock10
python9
css8
javascript7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/bedrock
Jul 2018 - Oct 2022
Making mozilla.org awesome, one pebble at a time
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 9 comments in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Mehan primarily focused on updating and maintaining the MOSS (Mozilla Open Source Support) sub-site within the mozilla/bedrock repository. Their contributions involved modifying templates and content, including updating links, removing outdated information, and adding new sections such as the "2020 Funding Update." They also made adjustments to the FAQ and application guidelines for the MOSS program. Furthermore, the user also updated the index and mission partner pages.
pebblefirefoxpythondjangocss
mehan/resume
Jul 2014 - Feb 2020
Contributions:27 commits, 8 PRs, 24 pushes in 5 years 8 months
csscss-filessum
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