Navindu Amarakoon
Student Ambassador at La Trobe University
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolNavindu Amarakoon is a full-stack software engineer with 4+ years of hands-on development experience and a broader 8-year professional trajectory delivering scalable systems across healthcare, hospitality, and fintech. Comfortable from Node.js/NestJS backends to SvelteKit and TypeScript frontends, he’s shipped performance-focused features and cloud deployments on AWS and Google Cloud while also mentoring engineers and shaping hiring/onboarding processes. An active contributor to open-source projects like documenso (an open-source DocuSign alternative), he’s improved authentication flows and document handling, showing attention to both security and user experience. Currently pursuing a Master’s in IT (Artificial Intelligence) at La Trobe University and serving as a Student Ambassador, he’s transitioning into deep learning and ML-driven software, aiming to blend production-grade engineering with smarter systems. Notably, he pairs a pragmatic, simplicity-first engineering approach with a genuine enjoyment of collaborating with people, making him effective in both hands-on implementation and team-facing roles.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Trinity College KandyMaster's degree, Information Technology, Master's degree, Information Technology at La Trobe UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at SLIIT
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Github Skills (25)
typescript10
user-authentication10
authentication10
nextjs10
next-auth10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
open-source9
front-end-development9
react9
backend8
back-end-development8
firebase6
android6
firebase-storage6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
documenso/documenso
Jun 2023 - Dec 2023
The Open Source DocuSign Alternative.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Navindu primarily focused on enhancing the application's authentication and signup processes. They implemented an environment variable to disable signups, modifying both the backend (TRPC router) and frontend (signin/signup pages, and social login) to reflect this change. Furthermore, they made code adjustments to remove unused elements and refactor the code based on updated requirements. Finally, they made updates to the document flow component.
digital-signaturedocument-signingdocusign-alternativee-signatureesign
notnavindu/notnavindu
Jul 2020 - Jul 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
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