Praveena Sarathchandra
Founder CEO at Molly
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Summary
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Top SchoolPraveena Sarathchandra is a founder-CEO and product-focused software leader with 13 years of experience building bootstrapped digital ventures and scaling client solutions across the US, Europe and Asia. She founded SmashTaps from her bedroom in 2014 and grew it into a profitable, 25–30+ person digital product studio trusted by NYSE/S&P 500 clients, cutting a Chicago startup’s resource costs by over 80% year-on-year for two years. Equally comfortable in hands-on engineering and leadership, she has led frontend work on notable open-source projects (contributing UX, themes and interactive docs to the WSO2 Jaggery framework) while delivering enterprise-grade systems in MarTech, FinTech and AI. Praveena also launches new ventures from within the studio—such as Molly (an ATS + assessment platform) and Kepler (a no-code WordPress builder)—demonstrating a knack for turning product ideas into revenue-generating businesses without outside funding. Based in Kuala Lumpur and active on regional business councils, she blends long-term “marathon” grit with a designer’s sensibility to craft impactful digital products.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, ICT, Diploma, ICT at Asia Pacific Institute of Information TechnologyChemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics at Dharmaraja College,KandyBachelor of Science (BSc), Computing with specialization in Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computing with specialization in Software Engineering at University of Staffordshire
Github Skills (7)
html10
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
documentation9
handlebars9
ui-design8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wso2/jaggery
Sep 2012 - Mar 2014
The delicious Javascript framework
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Praveena primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Jaggery framework documentation and sample applications. They added new themes and CSS styles, implemented a try-it-out feature for code samples, and styled the chatroom sample app. The user also made structural changes to the documentation and API pages, incorporating features like deprecated API indicators and code highlighting.
javascript-frameworkjavascriptdeliciousframework
praveenaj/waterlock-local-auth
Sep 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
methodauthenticationlocal-authentication
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