Nivanka Fonseka
Chief Executive Officer at Hello Better Digital
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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Top SchoolNivanka Fonseka is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and CEO with 12+ years building and rescuing digital products for New Zealand brands, leading Hello Better Digital from Christchurch while operating offshore teams in Sri Lanka. He founded SilverStripers in 2010, delivering hundreds of websites, booking systems and e-commerce solutions on the SilverStripe CMS, and has hands-on experience across PHP, Java, MySQL/Oracle and front-end stacks since the mid-2000s. Known for stepping in to fix lower-quality builds, he combines pragmatic engineering with cost-effective delivery models that stretch marketing budgets and improve ROI. Nivanka blends client-facing leadership with deep technical ownership—he still engages directly in product architecture and delivery—and is preparing to launch a tourism-focused booking engine to further serve NZ operators.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at University of Moratuwabandarawela central collage
English, Sinhalese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
1,372reputation
290kreached
27answers
37questions
Github Skills (89)
silverstripe10
omnipay10
cart10
grav-plugin10
seo10
prerender10
meta-tags10
internal-links10
elemental10
translate10
editing10
summernote10
php10
markdown9
cloudinary9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SilverStripers/silverstripe-userforms
Jun 2018 - Apr 2023
UserForms module provides a visual form builder for the SilverStripe CMS. No coding required to build forms such as contact pages.
Contributions:19 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 11 months
cmsform-builderphpbuilderformbuilder
HelloBetterLTD/seo
Dec 2017 - Aug 2022
SEO plugin SilverStripe
Contributions:7 releases, 3 reviews, 102 commits in 4 years 9 months
prerendermeta-tagssilverstripeseo-pluginseotools
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