Rasika Govinnage
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolRasika Govinnage is a seasoned software engineer based in Melbourne with over 10 years of experience building scalable AI, MLOps, and cloud-native platforms, currently serving as a Senior Software Engineer Lead at H2O.ai. She architects end-to-end enterprise solutions that bridge microservices, distributed systems, and model deployment while aligning technical innovation with business outcomes. A pragmatic polyglot, she has led Java/Angular migrations with SSO (Okta), modernised Python ML tooling like AutoDoc and experiment-tracking, and automated infrastructure with Kubernetes, Terraform and EKS. An active open-source contributor and ex-WSO2 engineer, Rasika has made notable contributions to the Ballerina project—improving language-server autocompletion and cross-platform JDK compatibility—showing a strong focus on developer tooling and runtime reliability. She pairs an MSc in Computer Science and First Class BSc IT with hands-on delivery across global, production-grade systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
G.C.E. Advanced Level, Accounting, Economics, Business Studies, G.C.E. Advanced Level, Accounting, Economics, Business Studies at Nalanda College ColomboMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.24, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.24 at University of MoratuwaMiddle School Diploma, JavaSE Applications Development, Middle School Diploma, JavaSE Applications Development at University of Colombo School of ComputingAAT, Foundation and Intermediate Levels, AAT, Foundation and Intermediate Levels at AAT Sri Lanka
Sinhalese, English
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Github Skills (34)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang
Feb 2017 - Mar 2021
The Ballerina Programming Language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:252 reviews, 1584 commits, 665 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Rasika's commits focused on enhancing the Ballerina language server, specifically improving the code analysis and autocompletion capabilities. Contributions included implementing exception handling for token and symbol not found errors, refactoring utility packages, removing dependencies and refactoring signature help functionality. Additionally, the user contributed to the code action implementation by working on various variable and type-cast related fixes.
compilerprogramming-languageinterpreterballerinaballerina-lang
ballerina-platform/ballerina-distribution
Apr 2018 - Feb 2021
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 21 commits, 14 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Rasika primarily contributed to the Ballerina distribution repository, focusing on the execution scripts. They updated the Windows, macOS, and Linux shell scripts to support JDK9 and later versions. Furthermore, the user addressed issues by fixing the Java version check and modifying the language server launcher scripts. These changes improved the functionality and compatibility of the Ballerina runtime environment.
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