Senior Technical Lead · Colombo · --:--
Senior Technical Lead with ten years building web and mobile products used by millions, plus an open-source AI design-to-code toolchain. I lead from the front, close to the code and close to the team.
Selected work
A Vue-first CLI that turns Figma designs into production components. An AI inference layer classifies components and infers props; a seven-layer audit engine scores the output against the original design instead of trusting it.
TypeScript · Vue 3 · Claude · Turborepo GitHub RoadmapA verified mid-to-long-term house rental platform for Sri Lanka, with verified landlords, property visits and fast viewing coordination. Built end-to-end: product, design and engineering.
Next.js · TypeScript · Supabase · Drizzle · Tailwind easyrent.lk GitHubThe front-end of the CRM used daily by Singaporean firm Paradigm360, built with a small distributed team against a private repository.
Vue · Pinia · Jest · Firebase VisitA minimal agile estimation room for distributed teams: realtime, no accounts, no ceremony.
Vue · Firebase Launch
I'm a Senior Technical Lead who still ships. Right now that's platform1.cx; before it, trade tools, IoT dashboards and solar software. A new domain each time, learned fast enough to lead it.
My path started in UI/UX design, which is why translating a designer's intent into efficient, maintainable code is my home ground. I care about server-side rendering, SEO, accessibility and performance, and lately about giving engineering teams an honest answer to "where does AI actually help?"
I help engineering and product teams adopt AI where it actually improves delivery: design-to-code pipelines, AI-assisted development workflow and tool evaluation. I integrate and adopt AI rather than train models, and I publish numbers only when they're real.
A Vue-first CLI that generates production components from Figma designs. An AI inference layer (Claude) classifies components and infers props; a seven-layer audit engine scores the output against the original design instead of trusting it. Apache-2.0, with a public roadmap and contributor-ready issues.
My bet for small teams: repo-level context beats prompt courses. I set up agent context directories with defined sub-agents and skill guides, plus an orchestrating project brief that teaches the agent the stack, conventions and environment quirks, so every developer's AI session starts productive instead of starting over. Running today with my own three-developer UI team; measured before/after case studies are in progress.
Before recommending a tool, I test the claim by building the same Figma file with and without AI assistance. I've published a teardown of where design-to-code tools, including my own, fall short of vendor promises: interpreting imperfect input and validating output.
I still take interfaces from wireframe to high-fidelity, and it's why the code I ship looks like the mockup.
Senior Technical Lead since May 2026
Technical Lead Nov 2025 – May
2026
Leading technical delivery and frontend excellence across scalable web and mobile products; mentoring engineers and driving best practices.
Senior Frontend Engineer Jan – Nov 2025
Scalable frontend for solar design and energy software.
Frontend Engineer Apr 2024 – Jan 2025
Core developer on Node-RED Dashboard 2.0 (Vue): performance, memory and data visualization at the scale of hundreds of live charts for thousands of users. Open-source reviews across Discourse and Discord.
Senior Software Engineer Sep 2023 – Apr 2024
Cross-platform app in React Native and React. Turned the web app into a standalone PWA in one week, cutting projected development cost by 90%.
Senior Software Engineer Jun 2021 – Aug 2023
Led the front-end overhaul (Vue 3, VueX, React Native). Co-revamped the recruitment module, driving a 22% rise in positive user-satisfaction ratings.
Senior Software Engineer, front-end Jan – Jun 2021
Software Engineer,
front-end Jun 2018 – Jan 2021
Micro front-ends, secure UI practices (ISO 27001, GDPR), the Vue ecosystem, Storybook.
Software Engineer Sep 2017 – Jun 2018
Full-stack ERP for TrendyWear.lk (JavaScript, PHP, MariaDB), a 25% gain in operational efficiency.
Web Developer Aug 2016 – Aug 2017
Twenty-plus sites in PHP, WordPress and Magento.
Associate Web Designer Feb – Aug 2016
Interface design in Photoshop; later Figma and Adobe XD.
Web Development Intern Jun – Aug 2015
Front-end design and development.
"Absolute super star; great work ethic, top level communication and superb execution… without doubt would look to hire Gayan many times over."
Adam Fazzani Founder, GoTradie · Techstars '23
"He was our go-to VueJS expert. His mastery was like a guiding light for our projects, and he never hesitated to help and mentor others."
Thamara Dananjaya Senior Project Lead, OrangeHRM
"His understanding of design to develop requirements was outstanding… he explained why certain things could and couldn't work when translating designs."
Will Brown Lead Product Designer
"He took up responsibility and embraced innovative ways of solving problems… methodical in experimenting his approaches and learning through the outcomes."
Dr Charitha Godakumbura Senior Project Manager, MillenniumIT