Pasan Premaratne

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Senior Software Development Instructor - Supervisor (August 2018 - Present)

• Hire, manage, and help develop the Teaching team at Treehouse
• Manage content creation projects with teaching, engineering, and video production staff
• Research and implement practices and tooling to improve teaching efficacy
• Manage cross-team projects and initiatives related to quarterly OKRs

Senior Software Development Instructor - (April 2012 - Present)

• Write and record content to teach Computer Science, Swift and iOS development
• Manage the iOS Techdegree curriculum and program to take students from no knowledge of programming to a junior developer skill level
• Directed a partner program mentoring 50 students for algorithm based technical interviews

• 5 years Swift experience
• 7 years iOS development experience
• 2 years Objective-C experience
• Limited experience with Python & JavaScript

SwiftAST

A skinny Swift compiler that generates an AST with the goal of testing student code at Treehouse. Architecture details documented here in a blog series (work in progress).

SwiftChecker

Library that consumes a Swift AST (generated by SwiftAST) to parse, inspect and validate Swift code. Leveraged internally at Treehouse to create Swift "code challenges".

• B.S.B.A in Finance & B.S. in Economics - May 2011 (GPA: 3.93)

University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC

• French Immersion

Université Jean Moulin Lyon III - Lyon, France (2009 - 2010)