Hello, I'm Umanda Jayobandara.

I'm a Software Engineer living in Sri Lanka.
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About me

Bio

I love building big ideas, turning complex into simple. being challenged by new problems is my biggest passion. I'm a software engineer, but I see myself more as problem solver in a wide-variety of domains. I'm interested in Distributed Computing, Cloud Computing, Green Computing, Risk Management and Software Development & Productivity practices.

Achievement

I've worn many hats in my career. programmer, team lead, marketer, mentor and strategist. As the result I have the unique ability to manage and work with transdisciplinary teams and approaches to navigate complex challenges. But actual experience has taught me that from what I enjoy the most is working with great people and have fun doing it.

Specialties

Software Engineering, Client Collaboration and Management, Program Management, Software Development, Code Review, Code Analysis, Prototyping,Research and Development,Public Speaking

On my leisure

I am big fan of Raspberry Pi and Adriano. I am blogger and I am wildlife photographer. Hiking, champing and trailing is one of my favorite. I am book collector so love to read and creative writing is my one of born talent. I used to watch and play cricket, rugby and soccer.

Skills & Experience

Work History

Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead

Jun 2012 - present

tekMAZ pvt Ltd

Working with a team of highly motivated software engineers to deliver complex solutions to specific technical problems . Deeply involved in the designing, implementing and maintaining of software to support various client's products and services. Practicing agile methodologies and offshore outsourcing.

Role and Responsibilities
  • Testing software in controlled, real situations before it goes live.
  • Analyzing user requirements.
  • Supporting and enhancing existing software.
  • Extensive knowledge of PHP and other programming languages.
  • Writing and debugging code.
  • Involved in and contributing to automated test environments.
  • Developing and improving User interfaces and UI Engineering.
  • Maintaining systems once they are up and running.
  • Conduct code reviews.
  • Occasionally providing technical leadership to junior IT staff.
  • Researching and Developing new programs.
  • Presenting ideas for system improvements, including cost proposals.
  • Preparing and writing training manuals developer notes and learning wiki for users and developers.
  • Performance tuning, improvement, balancing, usability, automation.
  • Handling and analyzing large amounts of technical data

Associate Software Engineer / Software Engineer

Jan 2010 - Jun 2012

WAKENSYS

Wakensys is a global consulting and technology services company offering industry-specific solutions, strategic outsourcing, and integration services through a unique onsite, offsite, offshore delivery model that helps our clients achieve rapid deployment, world-class quality and reduced costs.

Worked under the team who had highly skillful and technical to deliver e-commerce and content management systems. Directly involved with module development, theme development. Practiced Test driven development and Waterfall methodologies.

Role and Responsibilities
  • My role was php Developer Web Developer CMS Developer ( Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress,Magento) CMS Theme Developer ( Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress,Magento) Web Designer UI Developer

Lead Web Developer

Jun 2009 - Jan 2010

St. Thomas' Collage, Old Boys' Association

Role and Responsibilities
  • Lead Developer

Freelancer

Jan 2009 - Present

Odex, Freelancer, Jayolab

Role and Responsibilities
  • Freelance php Developer Web Developer CMS Developer ( Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress,Magento) CMS Theme Developer ( Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress,Magento) Web Designer UI Developer

Skills

Languages
  • PHP 5 / PHP 6 ( full proficiency )
  • JAVA 6 (intermediate )
  • JavaScript
  • HTML/HTML5,XML
  • CSS,CSS3
  • LESS, SASS
Databases
  • MySQL
  • JAVA 6 (intermediate )
  • MongoDB
  • MSSQL
Framework
  • Laravel 4, 5
  • Symphony 2
  • CodeIgniter 3
CMS
  • Drupal 6 , 7
  • Wordpress
  • Joomla
  • Opencart
Servers
  • Apache
  • NGINX
  • Tomcat 3
Platforms
  • LAMP
  • WAMP
  • MAMP
Technologies
  • AJAX
  • Web services, SOAP, REST
  • jQuery, JQuery Mobile
  • 960 Grid, TwitterBoostrap3 / 4
  • Android SDK, PhoneGAP
Services
  • Saucelabs
  • GITHub
  • AWS
  • Amazon RDS
Tools
  • Composer
  • Bower
  • Gulp
  • PHPUnit
  • qUnit
  • CI
  • Eclipse
  • Netbeans
  • Sublime
  • MySQL Workbench
  • Phpstorm
  • Photoshop, Gimp
Collaborations
  • GIT
  • SVN
  • Basecamp
  • ZOHO
  • JIRA
  • ASANA
  • BugHerd
  • Mantis
  • Agile Model
  • TDD
  • Horuku
  • VMware
  • Oracle Virtualbox
  • Vagrant
  • Laravel Homestead

Portfolio

Full Satck PHP Developmant

More than 3 years I am leading a team to develop a full stack php application for "caravanfinder.co.uk" which is the largest selection of UK caravans and motorhomes on the Internet.

We use following technologies PHP5 /PHP6, PHP-FPM, Symfony, Laravel, Composer, PHP-Unit, Lotusnote, MongoDB, Nginx , memcached, cloud-forge, Bower, LESS, Bootstrap 3, Jquery, Jquery Mobile, Jquery UI, HTML5, Css3,Gulp

Apart from Caravanfinder, I have over 5 years experiences in hands on PHP development.

Frameworks

Laravel 4 , 5 more than 10 project and more that 5 packages (UK).
Symfony 2 more than 10 project and more that 5 packages (UK).
Codeigniter 3 - more than 3 projects (UK, SL)

E-commerce

More than 10 eCommerce projects I have completed already using , Opencart, Magento, Drupal (Ubercart). As well as having a better understand of payment gateways and integrations.

Content Management Systems

Drupal 6 , 7 - more than 20 clients (USA, UK, Australia, Netherland)
Wordpress -more than 20 clients (USA, UK, Australia, Netherland)
Opencart - more than 10 clients ( USA , SL )

Joomla - more than 10 client (USA, SL) Magento : 2 clients (SL)

Get in touch

Are you looking for a software engineer or consultancy?

Feel free to email me, or drop me a line in Twitter!

umanda.uj@gmail.com or +94 776 790 596