Tharindu Weerasinghe
Associate Technical Lead
Nugegoda, Western Province, Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolTharindu Weerasinghe is an Associate Technical Lead with six years of software engineering experience, currently driving backend and tooling work at WSO2 after progressing from Senior Software Engineer roles. He has a solid mobile development foundation from early career projects using Kotlin and Java, but has since specialized in backend language tooling—contributing to the widely used Ballerina programming language by implementing JSON-to-record conversion and a language server extension that leverages OpenAPI schemas. Comfortable bridging engineering and mentorship, he combines hands-on Java development and testing with a knack for improving developer ergonomics and code quality. Outside core engineering, Tharindu’s leadership experience in large volunteer programs and student organizations highlights strong people management and cross-cultural collaboration skills.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science Engineering at University of MoratuwaCIMA management Accounting, CIMA management Accounting at Achievers Lanka Business SchoolGCE A/L Physical Sciences, GCE A/L Physical Sciences at Royal College Colombo
English, Sinhala
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Github Skills (16)
json10
language-server10
ballerina10
openapi10
api-design9
java9
api9
javas9
compiler-compiler8
compiler8
programming-language7
kubernetes6
refresh-token6
schema6
amazon-cognito6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
The Ballerina Programming Language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:81 reviews, 66 commits, 56 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Tharindu primarily contributed to the Ballerina Programming Language project by implementing and refining JSON to Ballerina record conversion functionalities. They developed a language server extension module to convert JSON to Ballerina records, integrating the use of OpenAPI schemas as an intermediary for the conversion process. This involved creating Java classes for conversion logic, as well as adding testing capabilities for the new utility methods. Furthermore, they addressed code formatting issues, and modified the code to use syntax kind for tokens.
compilerprogramming-languageinterpreterballerinaballerina-lang
tharindu-nw/ballerina-distribution
Oct 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:17 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 6 months
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