Nipuna Herath
Lead Developer at Rio Tinto
Perth, Western Australia
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Top SchoolNipuna Herath is a Lead Developer based in Perth with 11 years of experience building high-performance mobile and front-end applications using React, Next.js, React Native and Flutter. He has progressed from mobile engineer roles in Sri Lanka to leadership positions at PickStar and Rio Tinto, combining hands-on implementation with scoping, pipeline design and CI/CD-driven delivery. Notable achievements include shipping widely used mobile apps and instituting TDD practices to improve quality and maintainability. He pairs a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Adelaide with practical expertise in deployment and release automation for large teams. Colleagues know him for bridging product and engineering goals—translating user needs into scalable, performant front-end experiences. Outside of work he maintains an active engineering focus reflected in concise GitHub work around React and React Native projects.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of AdelaideHigh School Mathematics, High School Mathematics at Kingswood College, KandyBachelor of Science in IT Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science in IT Software Engineering at SLIIT
English, Sinhalese
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Github Skills (64)
ios10
react-native10
mobile-development10
app-framework10
cross-platform10
navigator10
react-native-navigation10
android10
mobile10
react10
editing8
npm-package8
npm8
javascript8
txt8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kr4ckhe4d/kr4ckhe4d.github.io
Jun 2018 - Jun 2025
GitHub Blog
Contributions:1 PR, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
kr4ckhe4d/Socket.IO-iOS-Chat-Demo
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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