Kavinda Sumanaweera

About

Frontend-leaning product engineer with strong end-to-end ownership across AI website generation, gamified telco dashboards, election-result visualization, and business tooling. They have repeatedly worked beyond UI implementation—shaping product decisions, backend/API changes, infrastructure cost reductions, and performance improvements in products ranging from small-business website builders to systems serving roughly 1 million users.

Key Strengths

• End-to-end product ownership from wireframing through deployment
• Full-stack delivery using Next.js, Supabase, and Vercel
• Independent product decision-making for client-driven builds
• Cost optimization in AI products through selective automation
• Scalability optimization by migrating from Spring Boot infrastructure to AWS serverless
• Experience building operational dashboards with analytics and reporting
• High-scale product experience with systems serving around 1 million users
• UX simplification informed by alpha testing and Hotjar session analysis
• Custom renderer development for website editor preview performance
• Fast frontend-backend integration using mock APIs and rapid production cutover
• Cross-functional collaboration influencing backend APIs and database design
• Performance improvements by reducing duplicated backend payloads

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