Uthpala Pitawela
Software Engineer at Novatron
Turku Metropolitan Area Finland
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Top SchoolUthpala Pitawela is a software engineer with 10 years of full‑stack experience building production web applications across travel, risk assessment, GDPR and education domains. She has designed and delivered solutions using Angular, React/Next.js, Node.js and AWS serverless services, and has experimented with OpenAI to automate processes and reduce manual toil. A former Senior Software Engineer at 99x and AWS Community Builder (2019–2023), she blends hands‑on development with community mentorship and technical advocacy. Uthpala pairs strong academic credentials — a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science and postgraduate studies in Data Science, now pursuing a Master’s in IT in Finland — with practical experience in performance tuning, technical debt management and CI/CD. Colleagues know her for tackling complex business requirements end‑to‑end and for bringing research‑driven automation into everyday engineering workflows.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science, specialized in Data Science and Analytics Engineering, Master's degree, Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science, specialized in Data Science and Analytics Engineering at University of MoratuwaMaster's degree, Information Technology, Master's degree, Information Technology at Åbo Akademi UniversityBachelor of Science(Hons) , Computer Science, Bachelor of Science(Hons) , Computer Science at University of Colombo School of ComputingMusaeus College
English, Sinhala
Stackoverflow
113reputation
6kreached
1answer
19questions
Github Skills (54)
octave9
eslint9
ecmascript8
racket8
coder8
spelling8
browserslist8
java8
javascript8
static-code-analysis8
euler8
linter8
functional-programming7
nodejs7
c-programming7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
UthpalaIsiru/neuspell-sinbert-huggingface
Nov 2022 - May 2023
NeuSpell: A Neural Spelling Correction Toolkit
Contributions:337 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
nlpspellingcorrectionnatural-language-processingspellchecker
delushaandelu/ApparelTech
Aug 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:124 commits, 1 PR, 113 pushes in 5 months
web-applicationsecond
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