Thilina Ranathunga
Committer, PMC Member - NetBeans at The Apache Software Foundation
Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolThilina Ranathunga is a seasoned software engineer and lead solution architect based in Colombo with over a decade of experience building enterprise APIs, full-stack systems, and mission-critical cloud-native solutions. A long-time contributor and current Committer/PMC member for the Apache NetBeans project, he brings deep NetBeans RCP expertise and a track record of module reviews, bug fixes and licensing compliance on a widely used open-source IDE. He has led technical teams across government-scale identity and border-control projects, payment integrations, and embedded device integrations, while also teaching software engineering as a senior lecturer. Comfortable from Java/Spring backends to Angular and Node frontends, he pairs practical engineering with architecture and governance fluency. Unusually, he balances hands-on code stewardship in a major Apache project with consultancy roles that translate open-source best practices into enterprise systems.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
OCP - Java, Computer Software Engineering, OCP - Java, Computer Software Engineering at Java Institute for Advance Technology Sri LankaMBCS, Computer Science, MBCS, Computer Science at ESOFT Computer Studies ( for British Computer Society )
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
code-editor10
javas10
ide10
java10
html8
jsp7
javascript7
jspx7
jhipster6
stored-procedures6
spring-mvc6
android6
spring6
amcharts6
mysql6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/netbeans
Dec 2017 - Sep 2018
Apache NetBeans
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:54 commits, 42 PRs, 24 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Thilina primarily focused on module reviews and license header management within the NetBeans IDE. Their contributions include fixing a potential null pointer exception related to installers, and reviewing code changes for various modules, specifically relating to J2EE, REST API, JSF navigation, and Chrome extensions. They also added and modified license headers across multiple file types, including HTML, JSP, and JavaScript, demonstrating an understanding of project licensing and compliance. Additionally, the user added graphic resources and replaced a logo within the project.
netbeans-platformnetbeansapachebig-dataide
thilina01/incubator-netbeans
Dec 2017 - Sep 2018
Mirror of Apache Netbeans (Incubating)
Contributions:2 PRs, 39 pushes, 62 branches in 8 months
javaincubatingapachenetbeans
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