Wikum Weerakutti
Backend Engineering Fellow at OpenMRS
Marathenna, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolWikum Weerakutti is a backend engineer with six years of experience focused on refactoring and hardening server-side systems, currently serving as a Backend Engineering Fellow at OpenMRS. He has driven meaningful improvements to OpenMRS core—renaming and deprecating global properties, adding password reset features, migrating entities to JPA, tightening DB constraints, and implementing detailed audit logging to strengthen traceability. Wikum has repeatedly mentored Google Summer of Code projects for OpenMRS, including work to modernize the developer SDK, showing a knack for improving developer experience as well as production code. Based in Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka, he pairs formal computing studies with hands-on open-source contributions to a widely used medical-records platform. Notably, his work touches both policy-level configuration and low-level persistence changes, bridging operational concerns with robust engineering.
6 years of coding experience
G.C.E. A/L Physics, G.C.E. A/L Physics at R/ Balangoda Ananda Maithreya National SchoolBSc Honours Degree in Computing and Information Systems Computer Science, BSc Honours Degree in Computing and Information Systems Computer Science at Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka
Github Skills (15)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
openmrs/openmrs-core
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
OpenMRS API and web application code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:111 reviews, 2 commits, 89 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Wikum primarily focused on refactoring and improving the OpenMRS core backend. They made significant changes to global properties, renaming and deprecating obsolete properties while introducing new ones for password reset functionality. They also updated database constraints and migrated various entities, including `FieldAnswer`, `AlertRecipient`, `DrugIngredient`, `OrderType` to use JPA annotations. Furthermore, the user implemented detailed audit logging to improve the audit trail of various OpenMRS objects.
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wikumChamith/openmrs-sdk
May 2023 - Jan 2025
OpenMRS SDK is a toolset which facilitates OpenMRS development
Contributions:199 pushes, 64 branches in 1 year 7 months
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