Ryan Samarakoon
Software Engineer at Optiver
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Samarakoon is a full-stack software engineer based in Sydney with nine years of experience building production systems across finance, education, and conservation tech. Currently a Software Engineer at Optiver after progressing from intern to graduate SWE, he has delivered tooling in Python and C++ to improve compliance and trading workflows. He previously led development for 50Raw's education platform end-to-end, improved CI/CD and UX for Ovio's coral-monitoring product, and built analytics dashboards that surfaced contributor insights. An active open-source contributor, Ryan has extended MockBukkit to better emulate Bukkit/Spigot APIs for unit testing Minecraft plugins—demonstrating both back-end rigor and practical API adaptation. He combines hands-on implementation with mentoring and onboarding experience, and maintains a personal site showcasing projects and a pragmatic, build-first approach to problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Suzanne Cory High SchoolBachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at RMIT University
Github Skills (11)
unit-testing10
javas10
mocks10
mockk10
mocker10
bukkit10
unit-test10
spigot10
java10
mocking10
testing10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
MockBukkit/MockBukkit
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
MockBukkit is a mocking framework for Bukkit/PaperMC to allow the easy unit testing of Bukkit plugins.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 1 PR in 2 days
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the implementation of MockBukkit's core functionalities, specifically focusing on providing mock implementations for Bukkit/Spigot APIs. Their work involved adapting the framework to support features like enchantments, item flags, and book metadata. They also integrated Spigot-specific methods and addressed build errors, ensuring the framework's compatibility and extending its capabilities to align with the Bukkit and Spigot APIs.
unit-testingmock-pluginbukkit-pluginstestingunit
Ry-DS/Ry-DS.github.io
Mar 2018 - Jul 2023
Personal Website and Portfolio
Contributions:5 PRs, 103 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 5 months
reactcssjavascriptreactjsnextjs
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