Thank you for your interest. My name is Waruna Ratnayake and I am living in Hamburg, Germany with my lovely wife Melanie. Before coming to Germany I lived and worked in Switzerland, Czech Republic, Republic of Maldives and in Sri Lanka. Most of my childhood years were spent in a beautiful town in Sri Lanka called Kandy. After completing my studies at the University of Moratuwa I have moved to Europe and living here ever since. Over the years Hamburg has become my home and I love the things that the city has to offer. Being the 8th largest harbour in the world, Hamburg attracts millions of tourists every year. Did you know, that Hamburg has more bridges inside the city than Venice, London and Amsterdam combined? It is a very diverse city with people from more than 180 countries.

In my day job I work as an Embedded Tester at e-velopment GmbH, a company based in Hamburg. e-velopment develops Enterprise Resource Planning software for german and international clients.

Whenever I get some free time I would search the Internet for inspirations for my next big project. I am a big fan for web standards and try to build sites which adhere to those standards. At any give day I would be working on Windows, Linux and OS X operating systems. They all have there advantages and disadvantages but from the productivity and stability stand point OS X works the best for me. Since 2005 I am using mainly Macs. I maintain finiteloops.com as an help site for Mac users. I also try to contribute to the open source projects by releasing my own small apps on Git.

Apart from web design I also venture into programming mostly for fun. I have considerable amount of experience with Java, C/C++, good old PASCAL and Python. Since the release of xCode4 I have also started medling with Objective-C.

I like cooking just as much as programming. If you are interested in my latest cooking recipes please visit the blog section.