Nipuna Madhushan
Associate Technical Lead
Western Province, Sri Lanka
Summary
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Top SchoolNipuna Madhushan is an Associate Technical Lead with six years of experience building observability features and stabilizing CI/CD pipelines at WSO2. He has deep hands-on experience with Ballerina internals, contributing cross-platform build fixes, test automation, and documentation improvements to the language's core repositories. Beyond backend and automation work, he has built VR/AR mobile experiences in Unity and produced a university capstone that reconstructed 3D human models from single RGB images using open-pose and SMPL for virtual try-on. Comfortable across Java, Python, C#, and JavaScript, he pairs practical DevOps tooling (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker) with computer vision and graphics skills. He also teaches as a visiting instructor and actively competes in coding competitions, reflecting a blend of mentorship and continuous technical sharpening. Notably, his contributions include resolving subtle Windows-specific build and path issues that improved cross-platform reliability for Ballerina.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc, Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering at University of Moratuwa
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Github Skills (21)
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java10
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ballerina10
test-automation10
testing9
test-framework9
windows-xp9
windows9
automation9
automations9
macos8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ballerina-platform/ballerina-distribution
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Backend & Automation Engineer
Backend & Automation EngineerContributions:166 reviews, 219 commits, 404 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Nipuna primarily contributed to enhancing the build process and fixing platform-specific issues. They addressed Windows-specific path resolution problems within the build system, ensuring cross-platform compatibility. Further contributions include the addition and modification of test cases to validate directory paths, and fixing test failures related to the installation process. The user also made updates to the documentation generation for the Ballerina distribution.
ballerina
ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
The Ballerina Programming Language
Role in this project:Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:101 reviews, 59 commits, 244 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Nipuna primarily focused on fixing build issues and assertion errors within the Ballerina programming language platform. Their contributions involved modifying existing code to resolve `ClassNotFoundException`, `IllegalClassPathException`, and `AssertionErrors` across different build environments, particularly related to Windows builds. These changes primarily involved adjusting class path access, handling special characters in file names, and replacing platform-specific newline characters. The user also resolved checkstyle errors and made improvements to the documentation generation process.
compilerprogramming-languageinterpreterballerinaballerina-lang
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