CV of Gimnath Perera

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Gimnath Perera

+94782970321 | Colombo, Sri Lanka | [email protected] | Website | GitHub | Linkedin

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER


Experienced Senior Fullstack Software Engineer with five years of expertise in architecting and
developing solutions for large-scale web and mobile applications. Proven track record of optimizing
system efficiency, reducing post-release issues by 15%, and enhancing application responsiveness.

WORK EXPERIENCE
Rhino Partners (SPH Media) - Colombo, SL 03/2023 - PRESENT
Senior Software Engineer
Responsible for developing two SAAS web applications for concurrent use, catering to over 100,000
users each.
● Collaborating closely with the technical lead and cross-functional team has the potential to
enhance team performance, resulting in a 10% improvement in delivery time and features
delivered within the set timeframe.
● Design robust application architectures, collaborating with 2 international development
teams. Effectively communicated with the back-end and design teams for high-quality
deliverables.
● Technologies Use: Next JS, Redux Toolkit Query, Storybook, Testing Library, Typescript,
Cypress, MUI, Node JS, AWS Lambdas, Styled Components, GitHub Actions, Okta, Authentik

Rhino Partners (January Capital) - Colombo, SL 04/2021 - 03/2023


Software Engineer
Developed an investor self-service portal, streamlining document submissions to accelerate
investing proposal processes by up to 30%, replacing manual and hardcopy methods with efficient
digital workflows and matrices.
● Collaborated on vital portal features like PDF auto-generation, editing, and system design,
enhancing application performance while maintaining an 82% unit test coverage.
● Enhanced application performance by 20% to surpass client expectations, implementing
code splitting, image and font optimizations, and leveraging React's built-in memoization
techniques.
● Conducted tech sessions on React techniques, boosting the team's skills. This could help
deliver project goals 2 weeks early, exceeding client expectations.
● Technologies Use: React JS, Redux Toolkit, Tailwind, Prisma, Typescript, Jest, MUI, Formik,
PdfLib, GitHub Actions, Firebase, Sonarqube, AWS S3, AWS Lambdas
Digital X Labs - Colombo, SL 01/2020- 04/2021
Associate Software Engineer
Managed a high-capacity campaign creation platform, facilitating the sending of messages at a scale
of up to 1.5 million.
● Collaborated on revamping the frontend to achieve a 30% improvement in app
performance, and efficiently managed a report-service, a highly data-intensive microservice.
● Technologies Use: React JS, Redux Thunk, Kubernates, Jenkins, Sonarqube, Molecular JS

EDUCATION
Staffordshire University - London, UK 06/2017 - 08/2021
Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) - Software Engineering | First Class

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
● Specializing for over 5 years in React JS, Next JS, React-Native, Redux, Jest and Cypress.
● Competent in Material-UI, Tailwind, Ant-Design and Headless UI frameworks.
● Expertise in Firebase, Convex and Superbase, Sql and NoSql databases.
● Experience in Node JS, Nest JS, Express JS and Molecular JS.
● Proficient in AWS with expertise in CI/CD, Kubernetes, Docker and GitHub Actions.
● Expertise in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Typescript and Python

PERSONAL PROJECTS
● Plant Safe | AI based plant disease recognition App | GitHub | YouTube
● Mocktopus | TypeScript interface mock data generator | Nex JS, Next UI | GitHub | Live
● RainbowRiot | Color palette generator from images. | Next JS, Tailwind | GitHub | Live
● react-mui-multi-search | npm library for seamless search and filtering. | GitHub | NPM

AWARDS AND HONORS


National ICT Awards - NBQSA - APIIT Sri Lanka 07/2021
● Finalist in the National ICT Awards - NBQSA competition for my innovative plant disease
recognition mobile app, competing against 100+ student projects.

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
YoutTube Content Creator - YouTube 08/2021 - PRESENT
● Publish YouTube videos for beginner programmers' guidance.
Dev.to Moderator - Dev.to 05/2021 - PRESENT
● Support the community by writing programming articles and assisting new publishers.
Stack Overflow Contributor - Stack Overflow 12/2020 - PRESENT
● Achieved 1000+ reputation through accurate community answers.

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