I am a Laravel and Full-Stack Web Developer working with clients worldwide. I am passionate about developing websites and web applications. I have all the skills to create a new high quality web apps or improve existing websites for individuals and organizations, using the latest techniques and trends.
Laravel has been my go to framework over the past 8 years. Using Laravel I have built a number of enterprise grade SaaS and standalone apps, backends for mobile and SPAs, and have utilized almost all of Laravel features.
Web Development
With 20 years of experience, I have developed website and web based applications for Startups, Fortune 500 companies, and non-profit organizations across over 25 countries and languages.
API Development & Integration
I design, develop, and integrate APIs to effectively and economically communicate with 3rd party applications and services. I'm well experienced in high volume and throughput performance optimizations.
Management
During my 20 year career, I have held positions of Lead Dev, Team Lead, Project Manager, and Product Manager and I have successfully navigated complex projects to deliver on time and on budget.
Testimonials
Shamintha was an excellent resource for our PHP solution--top level expert coding and broad general knowledge. He had many original and helpful suggestions. Also an excellent communicator in English, never any problems organizing work with him.
Shamintha has been excellent to work with. Very knowledgable and communicative. Very organized and structured with his approach and asking of questions. Looking forward to more projects together.
We had the pleasure of working together and surely helped guide the delivery of one of our projects. Professional, Available and someone I'd look forward to work with again.
We're so lucky to have found Shamintha. He is very responsive and communicative. He tells me when there are unexpected issues that come up and keeps me in the loop. He also does really great work. Thank you! I look forward to continuing to work with him in the future.
Developed an IoT driven SaaS B2B ERP application serving clients in the Logistics and Supply Chain Industry. The platform included 25+ modules and over 1,000 functionalities, which were built using Laravel and Vue JS. I started as the sole-developer and grew to a team of more than 15 developers. I was primarily involved in architecting and developing functionality, product management, test automation, communicating with clients, and leading the development teams during growth stages.
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
KeepMe.AI
Senior Laravel Developer
KeepMe.AI is an AI enabled CRM and Sales & Marketing platform designed for gyms and fitness industry. My primary contributions were on :
Development of new modules and features on Laravel and Vue JS such as automated member billing services using stripe, Twillio and WhatsApp messaging integration, etc.
Integrating the Laravel based core application with various third-party APIs and services
Optimizing Laravel platform performance for better page and data load speeds
Refactoring code to meet industry standards and best practices
Upgrading Laravel through multiple major versions (from 5.2 to the latest)
Setting up CI/CD workflows and managing DevOps
Aug 2016 - Dec 2018
Virtual Arkansas
Consultant Developer
Architected and Developed PHP and Moodle based LMS applications and reporting tools for an online learning management platform, which was being used by 300K+ users on a weekly basis. Tasks involved vertical and horizontal scaling, optimizing performance, and compilation of large data sets for reporting.
May 2014 - Mar 2016
Synopsys (formerly Codiscope LLC)
Senior Developer
Synopsys Codiscope provides enterprise user security training to their clients via an online learning management system allowing their customers to stay compliant with various security standards.
Collaborated with 10+ Senior Developers to architect and develop a learning and training system used by 3M+ users across 75+ Fortune 500 companies annually
Developed custom reporting dashboards so employees could track annual progress on course requirements and management could oversee employee progress
Worked directly with Customer Support engineers to resolve system administration, version migration, and version compatibility issues
Jan 2008 - June 2024
Flatorb Inc
Senior Developer
Developed PHP and Laravel based applications to monitor and manage industrial IoT enabled devices, and Barcode & GPS based tracking systems. Solutions were implemented to enterprise customers based on their requirements.
Communicated with end-customers, users, and stakeholders to gather business requirements and prepared technical documentation
Architected and planned various cloud based technical solutions to address client requirement
Led multiple teams at different stages of the software development lifecycle
Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) and Automation System
Melwire Rolling Mills, which operates under the brand name Melwa, manufactures steel pipes and bars using raw material imported from their vendors. The organization was using SAP to track financials and to keep records.
Led a team of 9 engineers to develop a Laravel based cloud application that is capable to capture data through IoT devices
Spearheaded the architectural design to integrate the business process between Melwire and their Vendors. The system introduced the addition of barcodes and QR codes on raw materials, which captured and sent data to the system upon being scanned by Android devices. This automated the previously manual data entering operation practiced by them.
System was used 24/7 with a total user base of over 124 on Desktop and Mobile devices
Developed an API that can be consumed by Mobile applications and IoT devices
Developed dashboards and reports that extracted operational data and interpreted them as easy to understand infographics allowing management to make data-driven decisions
Integrated the developed system with SAP B1 to automatically transfer data between the two systems using API's.