About
Started career with Wordpress in 2013. Worked with LAMP stack (CakePHP, Laravel, CodeIgniter) over 5 years. Few career breaks where I enhanced myself via Certificates & Academic Programs. Full-stack dev until Covid then became WebView-Mobile Apps (Ionic & React Native) dev until 2022 with sufficient exposure for MERN & MEAN stacks. Very keen to do DevOps or QA roles. Also learning Generative A.I in AWS Skill Builder!
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Pursuing AWS Certification courses for Solutions Architect Professional and A.I Practitioner courses simultaneously, and expecting to complete both of them by mid of 2025!
- Residence: Toronto, Canada
- Age:
- Canadian StatusPermanent Resident
- Degree: MSc Computer Science
- UniversityPGIS - UOP
- Since:2018
Apart from career, I'm interested in travelling, in-door games such as Badminton & Chess, Social Gatherings, Mentoring and Career Counselling for youth, Writing Articles in Forums, Actively engaging in socio-cultural-economic issues regarding golbal politics !
Resume
Please visit my LinkedIn profile for my detailed resume. Here I mentioned only the remarkable positions I had only after 2018.
Sumary
Gajen Dissanayake
Resourceful and completion-oriented full-stack developer with 7+ years of experience, developing web and mobile applications for diversed range of user-gropus with most-favored tech-stacks as...
- LAMP
- MERN
- MEAN
Education
Master of Computer Science
2015 - 2016
University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Includes Databases, Parallel Computing, OS Design, Graph Theory, Computer Networks, Distributed Systems, AI, Graphics, SW Eng., CPU Architechture, Artificial Neural Networks, Computer Vision etc., with the CGPA 3.45
Diploma in Information Technology
2013 - 2014
University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
Includes Programming (C# & Java) Information Systems & Technology, Computer Systems, Web App Development, Personal Computing, Database Systems, System Analysis & Design etc., with the CGPA 3.39
Remarkable Positions
Full-stack Developer
2020 - 2022
Canadian College for Higher Studies - Toronto ON
Web & App Developer
2019 - 2020
Homelife Galaxy Real Estate - Toronto ON
- Reporting to the Broker of Record, developed and maintained Websites & Mobile App for Realtors
- Design & Develop User Interfaces by Vue.js & Bootstrap, Backend logic in Laravel , and Database in MySQL
- Hosting and Migration via Cpanel & FTP
- Testing and bug-fixing via Jest
- Webview Apps via Ionic
Skills
Rather my workplaces, most of them below were self-learned as their trendings ! If something I didn't mention here, it means I'm NOT an expert in it !
Recent Achievements
Since continuous learning is obvious, I'm always empowering my skills especially with Cloud and A.I concepts. Here are my recent achievements with AWS !
November 2024
October 2024
September 2024
November 2023
Recent Achievements
Since continuous learning is obvious, I'm always empowering my skills especially with Cloud and A.I concepts. Here are my recent achievements with Amazon Web Services!
References
Few words about me from some of my Employers, Co-workers, Juniors and Peer Devs with whom I'd engaged so far regarding projects, services, consulting so on.
Gajen worked with us for two years as a full-stack developer responsible for a LMS we are using. He designed, developed, tested and maintained the new features as required by the management, we appreciate them as those were very much worthy for our business.
Donatus Doss
President - CCHS
We worked (and working) with Gajen since 2018, for back-end development, database maintaenance, quality assessing and testing for 2 of our firms. He is an expert in PHP and MySQL, also recently he is doing Front-end testing & automation via Cypress which seems very useful for our business!
Pirabu Chandran
Founder - DesignUnic
Gajen Dissanayake was my academic advisor for my project & thesis of Software Development (2015/2016), and also we worked together for a Real Estate Mobile App in 2019. I developed the native android app with the Laravel backend which is developed by him. We found and solved few issues in full-stack development those are absolutely worthy for our careers I beleive!
Asfak Ihjas
Sr. Software Engineer
I got to know Gajen Dissanayake via Quora, since his answers for the technical questions were awesome. He is one of my mentors regarding full-stack development and cloud technologies. Recently I invited him to Medium, to share his knowledge and experience especially with testing and automation which is currently he is engaged more!
Mathesh Yogeswaran
Software Engineer Trainee
We became tech-friends via Social Media. I wonder that Gajen is always 'future-thinking' regarding tech-trends. By his suggessions and advices, I'm able to choose the appropriate tech-stack regarding the nature of software/web dev works I'm doing so far.
