Nipuna Fernando
Senior Software Engineer at WSO2
Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolNipuna Fernando is a Senior Software Engineer based in Colombo with six years of experience building backend systems and test automation, currently progressing through roles at WSO2 from intern to senior engineer. He holds a top-ranked BSc in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Moratuwa (GPA 4.04) and has hands-on experience improving the Ballerina programming language—contributing dependency-graph enhancements, test framework work, and compiler plugin refinements. Nipuna blends practical engineering with academic mentoring, having served as a teaching assistant, and is comfortable navigating compiler-level concerns and developer tooling. Colleagues describe him as a detail-oriented problem solver who surfaces subtle issues in dependency resolution and import handling before they reach production.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, GPA - 4.04 (3.96 out of 4), BSc (Hons) Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, GPA - 4.04 (3.96 out of 4) at University of MoratuwaPHYSICAL SCIENCES, PHYSICAL SCIENCES at Nalanda College Colombo
Sinhalese, English
Stackoverflow
160reputation
431reached
8answers
6questions
Github Skills (4)
ballerina10
test-automation10
compiler-development8
language-design7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang
May 2022 - Sep 2022
The Ballerina Programming Language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:145 reviews, 51 commits, 90 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Nipuna primarily contributed to the Ballerina programming language project by implementing enhancements to the dependency graph and test framework. This included sorting dependencies for topological sorting, implementing and refining the test cases for the DependencyGraph and related nodes. Also, the user made improvements in the handling of imports and variable references within the test environment. They also contributed to the Testerina compiler plugin and the Ballerina shell.
compilerprogramming-languageinterpreterballerinaballerina-lang
what-5up/ars-backend
Jan 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:110 commits in 1 month
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