Ballerina is a programming language designed for network distributed application development. Ballerina developer tooling provides a numerous set of tools including CLI tools, compiler extensions, language plugins, IDL extensions, etc. As an associate technical lead, I have been playing the following primary roles.

1) Role of lead engineer - Responsible for developing the Ballerina debugger and semantic versioning validator tool.
- Mentor an intern project to introduce the semantic versioning validator CLI tool for Ballerina language, which prevents pushing packages to Ballerina central with Semver incompatible changes.

2) Role of Ballerina Dev tooling team lead - Responsible for overall output of a 6-member team.
- Provide technical leadership for the design and the implementation of Ballerina OpenAPI converter tools
- Conduct architectural and code reviews for the components that resides under Ballerina tooling

3) Role of Engineering Manager - Responsible for quality of work, deliverables of a 8-member team
- Identify bottlenecks in the process and roadblocks to success of my team and clear the roadblocks
- Partner closely with the Product lead to manage project scope and ensure the technical deliverables are met
- Identify headcount needs for the team, plan and recruit to fill the needs
- Manage team members with different skill sets
- Solicit and Deliver individual feedback frequently
- Fill in the Performance Appraisal Review (PAR) for each team member
- Provide technical input for developer tooling design and implementation

Ballerina is a programming language designed for network distributed application development. Ballerina developer tooling provides a numerous set of tools including CLI tools, compiler extensions, language plugins, IDL extensions, etc. As a senior software engineer, I have contributed to the Ballerina compiler and developer tooling with the below contributions.

- Design and implement a LSP(Language Server Protocol) client library called 'LSP4IntelliJ' for Jetbrain IDEs, which received a massive community attraction and currently being continued as a community-driven open source project under the official Ballerina Platform GitHub Organization.
- Design and implement the debugger tool for the Ballerina language from scratch, with the support for conditional Breakpoints, logpoints, stepping (in/out/over), stacktrace view, variable view, watch window, expression evaluation support, etc.
- Optimize Ballerina compiler to reduce the jar creating time by 10x using Ballerina JAR compression + creation related optimisations.
- Initiate the effort to create custom JREs for Ballerina runtime.

Ballerina is a programming language designed for network distributed application development. Ballerina developer tooling provides a numerous set of tools including CLI tools, compiler extensions, language plugins, IDL extensions, etc. As a senior software engineer, I have contributed to the Ballerina developer tooling with the below contributions.

- Improved Ballerina IDE support and developer experience by designing and developing the Ballerina language extension for IntelliJ platform IDEs
- Designed and developed a set of Ballerina connectors by integrating REST APIs such as Jira, Google calendar, etc.
- Enhanced WSO2 customer support engineering process by improving the existing WSO2 CIP (Customer Information Portal) backend using Ballerina language