Rajitha Wimalasooriya
Senior Frontend Engineer at Compass Education
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolRajitha Wimalasooriya is a Senior Frontend Engineer based in Melbourne with over a decade of professional experience and a long track record of full‑stack delivery stretching back to early .NET and desktop imaging work. He has progressed through roles at government and enterprise organisations—Victorian Electoral Commission, FTI Consulting and Pearson—consistently shipping scalable, high‑performance web applications and coordinating distributed teams. Currently focused on frontend engineering at Compass Education, Rajitha blends user‑facing UI craft with deep backend understanding, enabling pragmatic end‑to‑end solutions. He has repeatedly taken on complex implementation and mentoring responsibilities, helping turn ambiguous requirements into maintainable systems. Comfortable working on both onsite client engagements and with offshore teams, he brings a practical, results‑oriented approach shaped by varied industry contexts. His background in image processing and early desktop component development gives him a rare appreciation for low‑level performance tradeoffs even in modern web stacks.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Information Technology, Certificate, Information Technology at University of Colombo School of ComputingBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at University of Colombo
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Github Skills (24)
git10
javascript10
react-components10
github10
typescript10
user-interface10
material-ui10
mui10
designer10
material-design10
declarative10
frontend10
react10
patch9
subversion8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rajithaw/workflow-designer
Nov 2014 - Jul 2019
A generic workflow designer using D3
Contributions:1 release, 129 commits, 85 pushes in 4 years 9 months
designerworkflow-designergenericworkflow
rajithaw/material-ui-designer
Feb 2019 - Jul 2021
User interface designer for Material UI
Contributions:3 releases, 69 commits, 21 pushes in 2 years 5 months
user-interfacereactmaterialdesignermaterial-design
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