Rukshan Marapana
Senior Engineer at Metro Bank (UK)
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRukshan Marapana is a senior engineer based in London with over a decade of hands-on experience building native iOS apps and leading mobile teams across startups and enterprise companies. He has driven major product work at Bumble and Sysco—rebuilding Sysco Shop natively, modernizing hiring and onboarding for mobile talent, and delivering engagement features for Bumble’s 2024 relaunch. Comfortable toggling between individual contributor and engineering manager roles, he combines deep Swift/architecture expertise (RxSwift, MVVM, coordinator patterns) with experience scaling cross-functional teams and processes. Known for mentoring engineers, conducting high-volume technical interviews, and converting non-mobile developers into productive mobile contributors, he brings both craft and people leadership. Now at Metro Bank, he continues to focus on pragmatic, reusable solutions that improve code quality and user impact. An early freelancer and game programmer, he brings a breadth of practical product delivery uncommon in purely corporate profiles.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (Special Honours) Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (Special Honours) Information Technology at SLIIT
English, Sinhalese, Tamil
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Github Skills (44)
react-native9
javascript9
ios9
android9
xcode9
scrollable9
react9
frontend9
weex8
typescript8
expo8
framework77
mbaas7
mobile7
microfrontend7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sleepwalkerfx/RMGradientView
Jun 2018 - Aug 2019
A Custom Gradient View Control for iOS with inspectable properties.
Contributions:17 commits, 8 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 year 1 month
gradientswiftiosproperties
sleepwalkerfx/QuantumCache
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 release, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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