Nadeeshan De Silva
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolNadeeshan De Silva is a PhD candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant in Computer Science with nine years of software engineering experience, blending academic rigor with production-grade development. He has strong full-stack expertise—spanning Java backend work, React front-ends, and cloud/container tooling—and has led impactful projects at WSO2, Enactor, and as an early engineer on ZippyCrowd’s MVP. An active Apache OODT committer and PMC member, he has modernized dashboards and REST APIs for open-source middleware through Google Summer of Code and continued community leadership. At William & Mary he teaches data structures while advancing research, demonstrating an ability to translate complex algorithms into teachable, tested code. Notably, his open-source contributions include modularizing React components and improving API robustness and documentation, reflecting a pragmatic focus on maintainability and developer experience. Based in Williamsburg, VA, he combines system design, mentoring, and sustained OSS stewardship to bridge research and real-world engineering.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng. Hons), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng. Hons), Computer Science at University of MoratuwaPhysical Sciences and Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Mathematics at Dharmasoka College Ambalangoda
Sinhala, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (116)
maintenance10
mozilla10
interval-arithmetic9
angle9
svgr9
perl9
wgs849
gamma9
stat9
java9
complex9
android9
amazon-dynamodb8
data-processing8
least-squares8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sea-lab-wm/complexity-verification-project
Aug 2023 - Oct 2024
This repository hosts code, data, etc. of our project: Measuring code complexity via ease of verification
Contributions:36 reviews, 15 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 year 2 months
NGimhana/ngimhana-test.github.io
Sep 2019 - Aug 2023
Contributions:3 PRs, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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