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I’m a customer-focused front-end developer with 11+ years of experience building modern Angular applications, enterprise design systems, and user-centric digital experiences. I specialize in turning UX principles into high-performing interfaces, improving conversion outcomes through thoughtful UI engineering, analytics, and steady performance optimizations. In my recent roles, I’ve led agile front-end teams, delivered large-scale upgrades (including Angular major version migrations), and built reusable component systems that ensure consistency across product lines. I’m comfortable working across CI/CD, accessibility, internationalization, and observability—leveraging tools like Jest, Playwright, Datadog RUM, and feature flags—while collaborating closely with design and engineering stakeholders to ship reliable, secure releases.…I’m a customer-focused front-end developer with 11+ years of experience building modern Angular applications, enterprise design systems, and user-centric digital experiences. I specialize in turning UX principles into high-performing interfaces, improving conversion outcomes through thoughtful UI engineering, analytics, and steady performance optimizations. In my recent roles, I’ve led agile front-end teams, delivered large-scale upgrades (including Angular major version migrations), and built reusable component systems that ensure consistency across product lines. I’m comfortable working across CI/CD, accessibility, internationalization, and observability—leveraging tools like Jest, Playwright, Datadog RUM, and feature flags—while collaborating closely with design and engineering stakeholders to ship reliable, secure releases.

Nuwang Gunaratne

Web Developer, Front-End Developer, Software Engineer, +2

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I’m a customer-focused front-end developer with 11+ years of experience building modern Angular applications, enterprise design systems, and user-centric digital experiences. I specialize in turning UX principles into high-performing interfaces, improving conversion outcomes through thoughtful UI engineering, analytics, and steady performance optimizations. In my recent roles, I’ve led agile front-end teams, delivered large-scale upgrades (including Angular major version migrations), and built reusable component systems that ensure consistency across product lines. I’m comfortable working across CI/CD, accessibility, internationalization, and observability—leveraging tools like Jest, Playwright, Datadog RUM, and feature flags—while collaborating closely with design and engineering stakeholders to ship reliable, secure releases.…I’m a customer-focused front-end developer with 11+ years of experience building modern Angular applications, enterprise design systems, and user-centric digital experiences. I specialize in turning UX principles into high-performing interfaces, improving conversion outcomes through thoughtful UI engineering, analytics, and steady performance optimizations. In my recent roles, I’ve led agile front-end teams, delivered large-scale upgrades (including Angular major version migrations), and built reusable component systems that ensure consistency across product lines. I’m comfortable working across CI/CD, accessibility, internationalization, and observability—leveraging tools like Jest, Playwright, Datadog RUM, and feature flags—while collaborating closely with design and engineering stakeholders to ship reliable, secure releases.

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I’m a customer-focused front-end developer with 11+ years of experience building modern Angular applications, enterprise design systems, and user-centric digital experiences. I specialize in turning UX principles into high-performing interfaces, improving conversion outcomes through thoughtful UI engineering, analytics, and steady performance optimizations.

In my recent roles, I’ve led agile front-end teams, delivered large-scale upgrades (including Angular major version migrations), and built reusable component systems that ensure consistency across product lines. I’m comfortable working across CI/CD, accessibility, internationalization, and observability—leveraging tools like Jest, Playwright, Datadog RUM, and feature flags—while collaborating closely with design and engineering stakeholders to ship reliable, secure releases.

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Project / Open Source Contributor: Hacker News Reader (mobile-first Angular app) at NUWANG91 (GitHub)

August 1, 2026 - Present

Developed a mobile-first Angular application integrating the Hacker News API to dynamically fetch and display technology stories, discussions, authors, scores, and comments. Implemented responsive UI using reusable Angular components and REST API integration while leveraging AI tools (Claude Code) to accelerate Angular version migrations through automated code refactoring, dependency checks, and regression testing across mobile and desktop experiences.

Lead Software Engineer / Associate Director at AZORES

April 1, 2024 - June 1, 2026

Led an agile team of 5 front-end engineers modernizing a legacy Java Server Faces (JSF) platform into a white-label Angular application delivered to multiple international private banking clients. Directed cross-squad design system alignment and established a shared Figma asset repository and unified component patterns to keep UI consistent across client-customized deployments. Managed 12 major production releases (new and existing banking clients), engineered Angular upgrade paths (v12 to v18), hardened applications using OWASP principles, and architected multi-tenant white-label theming with custom CSS properties and feature flags. Implemented an automation layer using Jest and Playwright to improve regression confidence, introduced semantic versioning and GitLab CI/CD pipelines for better release frequency and rollback reliability, and improved observability using tools like Matomo and performance investigations via Dynatrace RUM. Used AI tools such as Claude Code to accelerate code

Senior Application Consultant (UI Lead) at U3 Infotech

January 1, 2023 - April 1, 2024

Led front-end modernization for ATLAS, GIC’s private markets platform, spanning 11 modules and 20+ system integrations, recognized with the Singapore Business Review Technology Excellence Award. Delivered an Angular v8 to v15 upgrade for a sovereign wealth fund internal platform, eliminating about three years of security technical debt and modernizing the UI to a token-based architecture. Integrated Highcharts Treemap for richer portfolio visualization (200+ internal analysts) and embedded Datadog RUM using Core Web Vitals and JS error trends to provide actionable performance dashboards for engineering managers. Delivered Jest unit-test coverage uplift and authored front-end best-practice runbooks/onboarding materials for mid-level engineers. Implemented lazy-loaded Angular modules and restructured the codebase toward micro-frontend architecture to improve scalability and reduce initial bundle sizes. Facilitated cross-team UI/UX review sessions with design stakeholders and standardiz

Project / Front-End Developer (internal HR & reporting platform) at Arimac Lanka (GitHub)

August 1, 2018 - August 1, 2018

Developed multiple Scrum modules—scrumb oard, absence management, and reporting—within an internal HR and project management platform. Delivered responsive interfaces supporting both desktop and mobile screen sizes based on Figma designs and consolidated fragmented operational workflows from multiple legacy platforms into a centralized workspace to reduce administrative overhead and streamline daily operations.

Senior Lead Software Engineer – UX IFs AB (Industrial and Financial Systems)

November 1, 2015 - February 1, 2023

Engineered IFs’s enterprise Angular design system (v15), distributing 20+ production-ready components via NPM to 15+ product teams globally with full RTL and WCA G 2.1A support. Led a team of 6 engineers building the IFs Design System UI Component Library (design.ifs.com) as a single source of truth. Defined branching strategy, CI/CD pipeline standards, Docker containerization, and SonarQube quality gates, improving merge-to-main cadence from weekly to daily. Developed cloud login and authentication screens using FreeMarker Template Language, HTML/CSS/JS, and Keycloak OAuth standards across product lines. Built and shipped 18+ reusable Angular components including hierarchical org charts, 9-box matrices, and export tools reused across IFs Cloud ERP suites. Integrated Kendo UI and DevExpress libraries to enable non-technical users to configure rich data visualizations at runtime. Published interactive component documentation via Storybook to reduce design-to-developer handoff friction