Rukshan Perera
Software Engineer at GE HealthCare
Vantaa, Finland
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Top SchoolRukshan Perera is a software engineer with over a decade of experience building hardware-centric and compiler-facing systems, currently contributing to healthcare-edge solutions at GE HealthCare. He blends deep C++ expertise with practical experience in embedded systems, EDA simulation, and language tooling—having worked on Ballerina’s compiler and runtime and contributed fixes to its documentation website. Rukshan has a strong track record in debugging, algorithm design, and automated testing, and he created Pixelmancy, a C++ educational framework with CI-driven autograding while teaching at the University of Oulu. Comfortable across full-stack, compiler, and low-level domains, he pairs systems thinking with hands-on implementation to deliver reliable, verifiable software. An active open-source contributor, he often focuses on improving developer ergonomics and reproducibility in complex codebases.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Degree of Bachelor of the Science of Engineering Computer Science & Engineering, Honours Degree of Bachelor of the Science of Engineering Computer Science & Engineering at University of MoratuwaCertificate in Network Administration, Certificate in Network Administration at ESOFT Metro CampusMaster of Science (Technology) Master’s Programme in Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Science (Technology) Master’s Programme in Computer Science and Engineering at University of OuluAdvanced Level mathematics, Advanced Level mathematics at Royal College Colombo
English, Sinhala
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Github Skills (16)
html10
type-system10
ballerina10
github10
compiler-development10
runtime-environment9
programming-language9
web-development9
front-end-development7
back-end-development7
windows6
miniconda6
anaconda6
cassandra6
loops6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang
Jan 2020 - Aug 2022
The Ballerina Programming Language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:529 reviews, 951 commits, 208 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Rukshan made several code changes to the Ballerina Programming Language, specifically focused on compiler and runtime aspects. Their contributions include fixing issues related to cyclic flags in readonly and Cloneable types, refactoring tuple type nodes and updating the JSON to record conversion feature. They also worked on implementing support for distinct type ids for object constructors and refining the toString methods.
programming-languagecompilerballerina-langballerinacloud-native
ballerina-platform/ballerina-dev-website
Feb 2020 - Jun 2020
Dev version of the ballerina.io website
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 8 commits, 6 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Rukshan primarily focused on updating and fixing the Ballerina by Example (BBE) website, specifically addressing broken links to example code hosted on GitHub. These fixes spanned multiple versions and included changes to several HTML files to point to the new locations of example code. Additionally, the user addressed a lone line error in a hello-world-service file and performed code generation for hello-world client and service examples, demonstrating involvement in both front-end and back-end aspects of the project.
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