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Kumareshan Balaraja

Kumareshan Balaraja

Petaling Jaya

Summary

Dynamic Full Stack Developer with extensive experience at Kiplepay Sdn Bhd, excelling in PHP and Laravel. Proven track record in optimizing payment gateway integrations and enhancing system reliability. Strong problem-solving skills and a collaborative approach drive successful project delivery and customer satisfaction. Committed to continuous improvement and agile methodologies.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Associate, Full stack Developer

Kiplepay Sdn Bhd
05.2025 - Current
  • Company Overview: [Malaysia]
  • Lead development and maintenance of the Customer Support Portal (ZAP Portal), ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance.
  • Handle Level 2 application support escalations, diagnosing and resolving complex production issues efficiently.
  • Manage payment gateway integrations and troubleshoot payment-related issues, ensuring smooth transaction flows for multiple white-label clients.
  • Develop and enhance full-stack solutions using PHP, Laravel, Ionic, Angular, MySQL, and MariaDB, following secure coding practices.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to gather requirements, plan sprints, and deliver new features on schedule.
  • Optimize existing systems to improve system reliability, reduce bug rate, and enhance customer satisfaction.
  • Utilize Git for version control and Jenkins for CI/CD to streamline deployment processes.
  • Work with Ubuntu Linux servers and Firebase for cloud-based services and push notifications.
  • [Malaysia]

Associate Software Development

Kiplepay Sdn Bhd
07.2024 - 05.2025
  • Company Overview: [Malaysia]
  • Transitioned from Associate Application Support Level 2 to Associate Software Development.
  • Managed tasks using JIRA and maintained version control with GitHub, creating branches for each task.
  • Integrated EMV 3-D Secure V2 Mastercard and Razer direct server API for credit card payments.
  • Designed and implemented web applications using PHP, Laravel, CakePHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and jQuery.
  • Developed database schemas and optimized MySQL queries.
  • [Malaysia]

Associate Application Support L2 (PHP)

Kiplepay Sdn Bhd
04.2023 - 07.2024
  • Company Overview: [Malaysia]
  • Manage, coordinating, assisting & training merchants integration for payment gateway & technical assistance via API or plugin.
  • Designed and developed a Dashboard and Support Portal for Customer Support, Application Support, Sales Ops, and Fraud & Surveillance teams.
  • It supports Payment Gateway, E-Wallet, Recurring Transactions, and Visa Prepaid Card systems, focusing on fraud detection and data retrieval for suspicious transactions.
  • Design & deliver complex SQL query for complex day-to-day operations.
  • Collaborate with product & dev team to manage & support for project: Selangkah Wallet (Selangor gov).
  • Assist dev team to engineer solutions - migration from legacy to latest plugins: Woocommerce, OpenCart.
  • Co-develop for Prestashop, WHMCS, Magento at merchant's server.
  • Co-Develop Monitoring system for payment (recurring & normal – Online Banking, Card & E-Wallet) to enhance response + resolution activity.
  • Dev Team - QA, bug identifying & fixing.
  • Analyse reported issues to drive and/or implement solutions from recurrence + improve product quality.
  • [Malaysia]

Full stack Developer intern

Kollect Systems Sdn Bhd
11.2022 - 03.2023
  • Company Overview: [Malaysia]
  • Working on Kollect Valley system [Svelte, PostgreSQL, Javascript, Java, Jooby]
  • Front End to Backend Development.
  • Proficient in using GitLab for version control and project management.
  • Utilized GitLab's issue tracking, merge request, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to efficiently manage projects and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively handle and resolve conflicts, maintain branch management, and merge changes with minimal errors.
  • [Malaysia]

IT Support & Programmer

Freelancer
06.2020 - 11.2022
  • Repairing PC and Laptops and other network gadgets
  • Providing IT support for customers
  • Developing websites for small and medium business.
  • Business analysis & Technical writings
  • Full stack development
  • Database support
  • Chatbot creation for small business websites

Education

BACHELOR OF INFROMATION TECHNOLOGY (HONS) -

NILAI UNIVERSITY
MALAYSIA
10.2022

DIPLOMA IN COMPUTER HARDWARE & NETWORK ADMINISTRATION -

TURNKEY IT CAMPUS
SRI LANKA
01.2013

CERTIFICATE IN COMPUTER SYSTEM STUDIES -

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Sri Lanka
05.2012

GCE ADVANCE LEVEL - MATHEMATICS

HINDU COLLEGE Colombo-04
SRILANKA
12-2010

GCE ORDINARY LEVEL -

HINDU COLLEGE Colombo-04
SRILANKA
12-2007

Skills

  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • CakePHP
  • Ionic
  • Angular
  • JavaScript
  • JQuery
  • MySQL
  • MariaDB
  • Firebase
  • Python- Django,Flask
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Jenkins
  • Ubuntu Linux
  • Payment Gateway Integrations
  • Requirement Analysis & System Design
  • Technical Documentation

Disclaimer

I hereby declare the above written are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.

References

  • TS. Dr. R Kanesaraj, Senior Lecturer, Multimedia University Malaysia, Persiaran Multimedia, Cyberjaya, Selangor, 63100, +60166173468, r.kanesaraj@mmu.edu.my
  • Ms Thagirarani, Lecturer of School of Computing, Nilai University, No 1, Persiaran Universiti, Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, 71800, +60124108135, rani@nilai.edu.my

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 03/14/91
  • Gender: Male
  • Nationality: Sri Lankan

Timeline

Senior Associate, Full stack Developer

Kiplepay Sdn Bhd
05.2025 - Current

Associate Software Development

Kiplepay Sdn Bhd
07.2024 - 05.2025

Associate Application Support L2 (PHP)

Kiplepay Sdn Bhd
04.2023 - 07.2024

Full stack Developer intern

Kollect Systems Sdn Bhd
11.2022 - 03.2023

IT Support & Programmer

Freelancer
06.2020 - 11.2022

BACHELOR OF INFROMATION TECHNOLOGY (HONS) -

NILAI UNIVERSITY

DIPLOMA IN COMPUTER HARDWARE & NETWORK ADMINISTRATION -

TURNKEY IT CAMPUS

CERTIFICATE IN COMPUTER SYSTEM STUDIES -

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

GCE ADVANCE LEVEL - MATHEMATICS

HINDU COLLEGE Colombo-04

GCE ORDINARY LEVEL -

HINDU COLLEGE Colombo-04
Kumareshan Balaraja