Dilshan De Silva
Technical Lead at Origin Energy
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDilshan De Silva is a hands-on Technical Lead and senior full-stack web developer based in Melbourne with over 15 years building polished user experiences and frictionless developer workflows. He specializes in React, Node.js, and CSS, and has repeatedly transitioned between senior engineering and leadership roles at organisations like Origin Energy, Officeworks and MYER. Dilshan combines a strong UX sensibility with pragmatic analytics-driven decisions—evidenced by his published site NamePickerPro and articles on conserving developer energy. Comfortable shipping production systems himself, he also mentors teams to adopt better tooling and developer experience practices. His background spans startups, agency work and enterprise programs, giving him a knack for translating ambiguous product needs into maintainable technical solutions. Colleagues describe him as a “CSS stylist” who treats developer experience with the same care as end-user UX.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Systems at La Trobe UniversitySt Monica's College
Github Skills (8)
paginator10
pagination9
react-component9
pattern8
react6
async4
jenkins2
junit1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ddesilva/another-redux-manager
Jan 2019 - Oct 2019
Another attempt to reduce boilerplate for async actions.
Contributions:12 commits, 5 PRs, 32 pushes in 9 months
async
ddesilva/react-event-bus
Jan 2019 - May 2021
Cross component comms using a pub/sub pattern
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 4 months
commsreactpatternpub-sub
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