Shehan Disanayake

Web developer at pixeltypen

dmcshehan@gmail.comViechtach, Germany

github.com/dmcshehanlinkedin.com/in/dmcshehan

Portrait of Shehan Disanayake

Summary

I’m a web developer at pixeltypen, an ad agency in Viechtach, but most of what I build goes past the website: the APIs, databases and background jobs behind our clients’ sites, the agency’s internal tools and its own SaaS products.

I started on Fiverr in 2015, mostly building WordPress sites and learning as I went. Later I worked remotely with teams in the US and Singapore. I freelanced for pixeltypen for six years before joining them full-time in 2023.

I work in TypeScript end to end: Next.js on the front, NestJS or Fastify on the back and PostgreSQL underneath. I still build WordPress sites when a client wants to edit their own content. What I like most is connecting one system to another and automating boring jobs, so nobody has to copy data around by hand.

Experience

  • pixeltypen logo
    Web DeveloperAug 2023 – now
    pixeltypenViechtach, Germany · Full-time, on-site
    • Develop and maintain 35+ client websites across hospitality, trades, recruiting, culture and education.
    • Built the agency’s internal operations platform: a typed TypeScript monorepo with around 30 backend modules and a web dashboard.
    • Connected it to sevDesk, Personio, Placetel, awork, Teamgrid, Make, Google, Airtable and Rapidmail, so customer, invoice and project data stays in sync.
    • Wrote a billing check that compares our data with sevDesk, explains each difference and uses Claude to suggest a fix.
    • Build the agency’s own SaaS products, including a multi-tenant AI chatbot (NestJS API and workers, Next.js dashboard, PostgreSQL with pgvector and row-level security, BullMQ) and a WordPress-based applicant tracking system (Next.js, PHP plugin, Mistral AI, Hetzner).
    • Connect client sites to AI agents through WordPress and Elementor MCP servers.
  • pixeltypen logo
    Freelance Web DeveloperMay 2017 – Jul 2023
    pixeltypenRemote
    • Turned Adobe XD designs into WordPress sites with HTML, SCSS, PHP and jQuery.
    • Built HTML email templates for clients and tested them across the common email clients.
    • Worked closely with the agency’s project managers and fixed reported issues within 48 hours.
  • MetaKing Studios logo
    Frontend Engineer2022 – 2023
    MetaKing StudiosSingapore · Remote
    • Replaced the old static pages of blocklords.com, the site of an MMO strategy game, with Next.js.
    • Built the game’s Alliance pages with Next.js, web3.js and ImmutableX, where players burn NFTs to join an alliance.
    • Added TypeScript to more than 100 React components, improving maintainability across the codebase.
  • CopernicusMD logo
    Frontend Developer2017 – 2023
    CopernicusMDGeorgia, USA · Remote
    • Built custom booking systems and websites for clinics and laboratories on WordPress, and kept them secure, fast and online.
    • Delivered WooCommerce stores for the company’s products and services.
    • Automated data flow between WordPress and Zoho CRM with Zapier.
  • ClubCloud logo
    Software Developer InternJul – Sep 2019
    ClubCloudMunich, Germany · Remote
    • Turned Figma designs into reusable React components for an ordering and payments app for bars and clubs, styled with styled-components and SCSS.
    • Managed app state with Redux and Redux Thunk.
    • Tracked down deployment and runtime issues together with the other developers.
  • Fiverr logo
    Freelance Web Developer2015 – 2017
    FiverrRemote
    • Delivered 100+ bespoke WordPress sites for clients in e-commerce, education and non-profits, integrating payment gateways and third-party APIs.
    • Completed more than 600 orders with 568 five-star reviews.

Technical Skills

  • Frontend: Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui, Radix, Redux, styled-components, SCSS, Material UI, GSAP, jQuery
  • Backend: Node.js, NestJS, Fastify, PHP, Zod, BullMQ, REST, GraphQL, Socket.io
  • Data & auth: PostgreSQL, pgvector, Prisma, Drizzle, Redis, MongoDB, Better Auth, Clerk
  • Sites & CMS: WordPress, Elementor, WooCommerce, Payload CMS, Sanity, Prismic
  • Integrations: sevDesk, Personio, Placetel, awork, Zoho CRM, Zapier, Make
  • AI & native: Claude, Mistral, MCP servers, Swift, SwiftUI
  • Infra & testing: Docker, Hetzner, Caddy, NGINX, pnpm, Turborepo, Vitest, Playwright, Jest, Linux (RHEL), AWS, Git & GitHub, Webpack

Education

  • Wrexham University logo
    Wrexham University2023
    BSc (Hons) ComputingSecond Class Upper Division
  • BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT logo
    BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT2018 – 2020
    Professional Graduate Diploma in ITRQF Level 6, equivalent to a UK bachelor’s degree with honours
  • PACE Institute, Colombo2018 – 2019
    Red Hat System Administration (RHCSA, EX200)Linux server administration
  • Digital Marketing Institute, Dublin2017 – 2018
    Professional Diploma in Digital Marketing
  • SLIIT logo
    SLIIT2014 – 2017
    Electrical and Electronics EngineeringCompleted 4 semesters, then switched to IT
  • S. Thomas’ College, Bandarawela logo
    S. Thomas’ College, Bandarawela2012 – 2014
    GCE A/L, Physical Sciences

Languages

Sinhala (Native), English (Fluent), German (B1), Italian (A1)