As a thinker-doer, my passion is to make great technology products that have true impact in the world.
👋🏾, I 💗 SOLVING PROBLEMS
Focusing on making the right productLearning about customers through problem exploration, building prototypes and learning through iterative experimentation
Tweaking how we build software with people and processes — can’t innovate on products without innovating on how they are built
Creating platforms that bring makers together to enable new product outcomes
Not being constrained by choice of technology — right tool for the job
Thinking end-to-end — beyond just technology, into UX, marketing and analytics
Mentoring and helping makers to build better products and grow as professionals
Work History
LinkedIn is probably the right place for this. I’ve written down my professional experience in detail.
I love making apps!
Here’s some of my work from the years of doing M2D2 startup with @Suneth. All YouTubes, designs and code were 100% hard work from us. Ping me on Twitter or LinkedIn if you’d like to know more.
AlwaysHungry
AlwaysHungry is a project I started under M2D2 banner to help people discover awesome restaurants around Brisbane area. Check out the website here: http://alwayshungry.me
60Hz
App to help keep track of your TV addiction. This is a rewrite of our first version: tvQ 1.0. tvQ was written to maximize code use with tailor made experiences on both iPad and iPhone. Article about it’s icon.
I love making these YouTubes!
Momento Jar
Sick of people putting up their party pictures all over the place. Momento Jar lets users build private community albums to share pictures from an event. App is no longer available for download.
LocationBot
LocationBot is an attempt to merge the power of FourSquare and Google Places API for location search with the great navigation capabilities of the new iOS6 Maps app. LocationBot allows you to search through both databases and navigate to that location using Maps app. No more ending up in hazardous locations!!
Notes + U
NPU is a simple app that helps students record audio during a lecture and take down notes at the same time. A user is able to take notes time stamped to a point in the audio. They can easily jump into a note, bookmark, photo or a link and hear what the lecturer had to say. It also outputs an audio file + PDF of the notes taken and syncs to dropbox.
Stopwatch Droid
Stopwatch Droid was my creation in the process of learning Android apps. This Android 2.3 compatible app was built purely with Java code (including the vector drawn graphics). My main motivation was to create a simple stopwatch to rival other complex and badly designed stopwatch apps that existed in early days of Android 2.0. Checkout what people said about the app:
★★★★★ The only android stopwatch in my opinion
★★★★★ Good clean design, simple to use 5 stars. Just what I was looking for.
★★★★★ Fantastic app. Simple and well designed.
Enterprise Android
VigilAssessment is an enterprise app I’ve helped design and build. It works on pretty much every resolution of Android and works on both phones and tablets with relevant UI changes for each type of device. Great learning experience!
Design for Desktop
My first design assignment at Vigil Systems was to give an old VB6 product a facelift to fit in with Windows 7.
Open Source Contributions
ActiveAndroid Migrations
https://github.com/m2d2/ActiveAndroid
Command and Engine Architecture for Android
https://github.com/m2d2/MDBaseAndroidLibraries
How to make an Android App (tutorial video)
https://dinethmendis.com/blog/how-to-make-an-android-app
Random Details About Me
Before coming to Australia, I spent 10 years in Singapore, where went to high school, and 11 years in Sri Lanka, where I spent most of my childhood.
I went to University of Queensland to study Bachelor of Information Technology (Software Design & Networking major). Towards the end, I completely fell in love with usability, user experience and UI design.