Andun Liyanagunawardana
Co-Founder Managing Director Chief Operating Officer
Matara, Southern Province, Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolAndun Liyanagunawardana is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling multi-tenant SaaS platforms from Sri Lanka. As Co-Founder and COO of Emojot he blends strategic leadership with hands-on engineering—shaping architecture, AI/ML features, cloud infrastructure and customer success to drive global expansion. He has deep full-stack and DevOps expertise (MEAN/MERN, AWS, MongoDB Atlas, WSO2, Socket.io, CI/CD, test automation) and a track record delivering secure, compliant systems for large enterprises. An active open-source contributor, he implemented and refactored the Wicket “Whiteboard” with WebSocket sync and PDF/document handling for the wicketstuff/core project. He also serves on the Computer Society of Sri Lanka Accreditation Board and mentors final-year projects at the University of Moratuwa, reflecting a commitment to growing local technical talent. Practical, systems-minded and curious, he combines product focus with operational rigor to turn complex customer signals into scalable platform capabilities.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Engineering at University of MoratuwaPrimary Education, Primary Education at Sri Dharmarama Kanishta VidyalayaMathamatics Stream, Mathamatics Stream at St. Aloysius' College
English, Sinhalese
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Github Skills (9)
javas10
javascript10
websocket10
wicket10
java10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
integrations8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
wicketstuff/core
Aug 2013 - Sep 2013
Wicketstuff-core projects are bundled user contributions for use with Apache Wicket (https://wicket.apache.org/). They are released in step with Wicket releases to make them easy to use.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:30 commits in 28 days
Contributions summary:Andun primarily contributed to the `wicketstuff/core` repository by implementing and refactoring the "Wicket Whiteboard" feature. This involved adding new functionalities like saving and loading the whiteboard content, including the background image. The user also incorporated the ability to synchronize whiteboard content and background images across different clients by using WebSockets. Furthermore, the user added features for document/PDF handling within the whiteboard.
wicketstuffwicketjavaintegrationsapache-wicket
andunslg/Travel-Ceylon
Feb 2012 - Mar 2012
Contributions:30 commits in 1 month
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