Prageeth Silva
Principal Software Engineer at Atlassian
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolPrageeth Silva is a Principal Software Engineer based in Melbourne with eight years of commercial software experience and a decade-long technical background grounded in an Honours degree in Mechatronics. He’s shipped web platforms across Travel, FinTech, Real Estate, Retail and consulting, moving from hands-on engineering to founding and scaling startups before returning to senior engineering leadership. Deep expertise in frontend engineering, APIs and full-stack web systems is paired with a knack for practical automation—he builds small productivity tools and open-source projects under PureArtisan to make teams happier and faster. His cross-region experience (Australia, UK, Germany) and history of leading teams and product-driven engineering at companies like Webjet and Intuit give him both delivery discipline and product empathy.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at Gateway CollegeThe University of Melbourne
English, Sinhalese
Github Skills (145)
reactive-forms10
cordova-plugin10
apache-cordova10
groovy10
midori10
splashscreen10
java10
gradle10
kotlin10
cordova10
raspberry-pi-zero10
browser-automation9
laravel9
internationalization9
localization9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pureartisan/simple-i18n
Nov 2018 - Apr 2021
Simple and lightweight i18n library
Contributions:4 releases, 54 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 5 months
translationjavascriptinternationalizationextensiblelocalization
pureartisan/browser-session-tabs
Jun 2020 - Jul 2022
Track multi-tab usage in a browser session
Contributions:8 releases, 33 commits, 13 PRs in 2 years 1 month
tab-usagebrowsertrackingchromesession-tab
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