Sanjula Ganepola
Staff Software Developer at IBM
Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSanjula Ganepola is a Staff Software Developer at IBM with eight years of experience building developer tooling and backend services, currently focused on the IBM i platform and extensions for Visual Studio Code. A McMaster graduate in Software Engineering and Management, she has shipped features that span remote file browsing, build/compile orchestration, job log inspection and debugging for RPGLE/CL/COBOL workflows. Her work blends API integration with QSYS/IFS and CL commands, creation of extensibility hooks for partner tooling, and user-focused UI design backed by Jest and Selenium tests. She brings hands-on experience from research and teaching roles—developing sensor-annotation widgets and mentoring engineering students—that sharpen her product empathy and documentation skills. Based in Newmarket, Ontario, Sanjula pairs strong backend engineering with a knack for making legacy enterprise platforms more approachable for modern developer experiences.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.Eng.Mgt. Software Engineering and Management, B.Eng.Mgt. Software Engineering and Management at McMaster University
French
Github Skills (58)
cobol10
rpgle10
iseries10
ide10
language-server-protocol10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
theia10
golang10
eclipse10
devops10
act10
editor9
microsoft9
electron9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
SanjulaGanepola/vscode-ibmi
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
🎁 IBM i development extension for VS Code
Contributions:103 pushes, 35 branches in 2 years
SanjulaGanepola/github-local-actions
Nov 2024 - Apr 2025
✨ Run your GitHub Actions locally in VS Code!
Contributions:13 releases, 17 reviews, 73 PRs in 4 months
actcidevopsvscode
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