Pasindu Ruwandeniya portrait

Pasindu Ruwandeniya

Software Engineer
Laravel • React • TypeScript
Kottawa, Colombo District, Sri Lanka

Backend-focused engineer with 5 years of experience designing and building scalable leasing finance systems in Laravel. I ship user-centric interfaces in React & TypeScript, move data through PostgreSQL pipelines, and write the CI/CD workflows that get it all to production.
Back End
PHP Laravel Python Livewire
Front End
HTML CSS Tailwind CSS TypeScript jQuery React Inertia.js AlpineJS
DevOps
GitHub Bitbucket AWS Digital Ocean Cloudflare Google Cloud Platform
Soft Skills
Communication Attention to Detail
  • 5 years building leasing & finance platforms on Laravel
  • Cut API response times by 30% with a Redis caching strategy
  • Worked cross-functionally in agile teams end to end

Experience

Jul 2025 – Present

Backend Engineer · IconBlocks Inc — New York, United States
RESTful APIs in PHP & Laravel feeding financial transaction data into PostgreSQL warehouse pipelines; React + TypeScript interfaces for internal systems; a Redis caching strategy that cut API response times by 30%.

Laravel Redis
Feb 2023 – Jun 2025

Software Engineer · GDCreations — Nittambuwa, Sri Lanka
Designed, developed and maintained robust leasing finance systems in Laravel with Vue.js user interfaces, and wrote CI/CD pipelines that deploy applications seamlessly across multiple environments.

Laravel Vue.js
Jun 2022 – Dec 2022

Intern / Trainee Software Engineer · Circlebook (PVT) LTD — Kandy, Sri Lanka
Hands-on web development with PHP & Laravel — contributed to web applications and APIs, code reviews, bug fixes and continuous learning with cross-functional teams.

PHP Laravel

Work

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Jan – Mar 2026

JSONPoint

A web-based JSON viewer, validator, formatter and sharing platform. Full-stack Laravel with Livewire & TypeScript, secure shareable links and a responsive UI, deployed on DigitalOcean behind Cloudflare Turnstile.

Laravel Livewire TypeScript DigitalOcean
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AI Palm Reader

Upload a photo of a palm and get a reading. Laravel + Livewire backend calls the OpenAI API and uses Prism to return a clean structured reading from the image.

Laravel Livewire OpenAI Prism
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Anonaly

A TALL-stack web app to give and receive anonymous feedback — a tellonym.me / CuriousCat-style take built with Tailwind CSS, AlpineJS, Laravel and Livewire.

Laravel Livewire Tailwind CSS AlpineJS
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HNDIT Helper Bot

A Telegram bot that helps SLIATE HNDIT students find past papers and notes — built with Python and pyTelegramBotAPI and used daily by many students.

Python pyTelegramBotAPI Telegram
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2022

Blood Bank System

Donor & blood packet management for local blood banks — registers donors, runs donation campaigns and automates SMS notifications with a personalized message when a donor's blood is used.

PHP Laravel SMS
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2021

Personal URL Shortener

go.pasindujr.me — a zero-backend personal URL shortener powered by Netlify's optimized edge redirects and a _redirects file on a domain I own.

Netlify Redirects
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2021

SoundCloud Playlist Creator

Simple SoundCloud playlist creator built against the SoundCloud API to sharpen JavaScript skills — search tracks and resolve them into a working player.

JavaScript SoundCloud API

Certificates

2022

Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

Coursera
2022

Cybersecurity Essentials

Cisco Networking Academy

Education

2023

BSc (Hons) in Software Engineering — Cardiff Metropolitan University

Cardiff, Wales
2022

Higher National Diploma in Information Technology — SLIATE

Sri Lanka GPA 3.94