Ujitha Perera
Senior Program Manager at IFS
Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolUjitha Perera is a Senior Program Manager based in Colombo with 11 years in software engineering and product delivery, now leading programs at IFS after progressing through engineering and leadership roles there. He blends hands-on full-stack Ruby on Rails experience with program and people management, having shipped features, fixed UI/UX bugs, and mentored GSoC students in the Public Laboratory community. A committed open-source contributor and FOSS advocate, he has contributed front-end improvements to the well-known publiclab/plots2 project, demonstrating attention to user-facing detail. Ujitha pairs pragmatic engineering discipline from his University of Moratuwa background with a track record of growing responsibility, from trainee developer to senior program leader.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS Information Technology at University of MoratuwaRoyal College Colombo
Sinhala, English
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Github Skills (8)
html9
css9
javascript8
rails8
ruby-on-rails8
user-friendly7
threejs6
intellij-idea6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
publiclab/plots2
Mar 2016 - Sep 2017
a collaborative knowledge-exchange platform in Rails; we welcome first-time contributors! :balloon:
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 PRs, 100 comments, 10 issues in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Ujitha primarily focused on improving the user interface. They fixed an issue related to profile photo display by modifying the associated HTML and CSS files. Additionally, they worked on enhancing comment editing functionality by cloning an existing form and updating the necessary files. They also addressed a bug where a flash message wasn't appearing after comment updates, which required changes in the controller and associated view files.
ruby-on-railsballoonexchangefirst-timersknowledge
ujithaperera/plots2
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 8 days
collaborative-researchsharingsharing-platformpubliclabcollaborative
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