Thilina Hasantha
Senior Software Engineer at Automattic
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolThilina Hasantha is a Senior Software Engineer based in Melbourne with 11 years of experience building backend systems and leading engineering teams across startups and major companies, currently at Automattic. As founder of IceHrm, he designed and maintained an open-source HR management platform, contributing deep experience in database schema design, REST APIs, localization, and long-term product stewardship. He has applied his backend expertise to high-impact open-source work on projects like WooCommerce—improving its CLI and reducing unnecessary API calls—demonstrating attention to performance and developer ergonomics. Thilina combines hands-on coding, debugging, and system design with leadership roles at companies such as InstaFreight and GroupM, and brings an engineer-founder mindset to scaling reliable, user-focused services.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
2008 B.Sc Eng Computer Science and Engineering, 2008 B.Sc Eng Computer Science and Engineering at University of Moratuwa
Danish, Norwegian, English, Swedish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
woocommerce10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
ecommerce10
wordpress10
php10
api10
sql10
database-design10
rest-api10
cli9
google-tag-manager6
turbolinks6
ruby-on-rails6
momentjs6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gamonoid/icehrm
Oct 2015 - Nov 2020
Manage your employees easily with a robust and efficient Human Resource Management System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 154 commits, 21 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Thilina's commits primarily involve modifications to database schemas and SQL scripts, indicating work on the back-end infrastructure. These changes include the addition of new currencies, countries, and timezone data within the `icehrm_master_data.sql` file, which suggests efforts to improve data management and localization. Further commits focused on fixing dashboard and leave issues, showing debugging and bug-fixing abilities within the HR management system's backend functionality. Additional commits include changes to REST API endpoints related to meta data and mobile modules
management-systemcheckinphpresource-managementbull
woocommerce/woocommerce
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:71 reviews, 16 commits, 41 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Thilina primarily worked on enhancing the WooCommerce platform's command-line interface (CLI) functionality, adding new commands like the extension list command. They implemented code to retrieve and display extension details. The user also addressed issues related to API calls, ensuring proper signatures, and implemented features to prevent unnecessary API calls. Moreover, they improved the system by modifying the code to prevent showing a red badge for the extensions menu when a site is not connected.
ecommercecommercewordpressautomatticphp
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