About Me
Hello my name's Yasiru, people call me Yas. I'm from Colombo, Sri Lanka. I'm 17 years old and I am currently a student at Trinity College Kandy. I enjoy programming and almost anything related to computers. How computers function really amazed me and here I am digging deeper into the field and building my career doing what I love.
Taking apart things and breaking them, making something different, & fiddling around with circuits, this was my thing. I got my hands on my dad's laptop and I ruined it trying to do things I didn't know. I got my own computer in grade 9 where I wrote my first ever "program", it was a windows batch file game that worked on the terminal. I was in boarding school so I didn't have much time to do things with my computer, the only time I get to use my computer was on weekends when I got home.
When Covid started things changed, lockdown is what really got me going. I met a lot of people online, one of them was a developer that encouraged me to learn JavaScript. I wanted to build a discord bot and that was when I programmed something with an actual programming language. Since then I've been learning and building various things like chatbots, websites, automation programs, & web scrappers.
Skill Set
This is my skill set, what I'm good and bad at. Please note that this is work in progress, I still have a lot to learn and cover.
| Skill | Extra |
|---|---|
| Python | This is the language I've used the most. I have been coding discord bots, general computer applications & things to fiddle around with. I've mostly worked with discord.py, Django, PyQt, pillow, & matplotlib. I know how to debug python code, data classes, python coding standards, how to make use of OOP & much more. |
| JavaScript TypeScript | I've worked with JQuery, Node.js, React and Next.js in the field of web development. I'm familliar with JSX and how to manipulate the DOM structure with bare JS. |
| CSS HTML | I can structure HTML components that's eye appealing to any audience to fit any type of content. In terms of css frameworks I have expeirence with bootstrap. I know how to use css precompilers, mainly sass. |
| Databases | So far I've worked with both relational and non-relational databases that includes MongoDB, SQlite, MYSQL, & PostgreSQL. |
| Additional | I work with Visual Studio Code as my main editor other than that I have used many tools that includes VIM, Github, Bitbucket, Jira, Docker, Slack & many more in my workflow. In terms of operating systems, I have expeirence with using Windows and Ubuntu. I can work with remote machines using SSH, FTP, & RDP for Windows. |
Projects
Open source projects that I have contributed to/handled, feel free to contribute or copy my code.
| Project | Details |
|---|---|
| Discroid | An asyncrounous API wrapper for discords' API and websocket connections, that is still under development as part of learning how asyncrounous code functions. |
| Ranked Bot | Developer of "Ranked Bot". The bot is capable of retrieving aggregated player statistics, match statistics, managing rank roles & game replays served by a backend API. Bot is available for the public in the ranked discord server. |
| Better Threads | A wrapper over threads that provides extended control. The module supports pausing, terminating and putting threads to sleep. The module also provides some additional tools like Piping data between threads and a thread pool to keep track of threads. |
| Xpanse 22 | Website for project "Xpanse" organized by Trinity College Media Unit. |
Services
I provide a few services as a freelance developer. Feel free to contact me for any inqueries.
| Service | Details |
|---|---|
| Discord bots | Discord is a goood communication platform to any sort of community. I can get anything working from a bot that can do simple day to day tasks on discord, chat moderation or pretty much any task as long as the platform supports. |
| Websites | I can work on a small scale full-stack application to fullfill your needs. I ensure you that the final product will look and function just the way you want it to. I will revise and rework it till you are 100% satisfied in accordance with the design.Static websites
Dynamic websites
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| Scripting | Web Scraping, Data organzing and statistical representations or generally anything that can be programmetically solved with scripting. It can be to reorganize an Excel sheet or to hack the FBI. I can look in to it and provide a simple solution that will get the task done. |
Let's connect
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