{"id":5015,"date":"2026-06-06T12:41:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T12:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primetoolhub.com\/?page_id=5015"},"modified":"2026-07-19T03:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T03:40:06","slug":"about-the-founder","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schoolict.net\/tools\/about-the-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Founder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"pth-founder-wrapper\">\n<style>\n#pth-founder-wrapper *{box-sizing:border-box;min-width:0}\n#pth-founder-wrapper{font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,sans-serif;color:#334155;opacity:1}\n#pth-founder-wrapper .pth-fnd-header{margin-bottom:35px;padding-bottom:20px;border-bottom:1px solid #e2e8f0}\n#pth-founder-wrapper .pth-fnd-title{font-size:2.6rem;font-weight:800;color:#1d4ed8;margin:0 0 10px 0;letter-spacing:-1px;line-height:1.2}\n#pth-founder-wrapper .pth-fnd-subtitle{font-size:1.15rem;color:#475569;margin:0;font-weight:500}\n#pth-founder-wrapper .pth-fnd-updated{font-size:.9rem;color:#64748b;font-weight:600;margin:0 0 25px 0}\n#pth-founder-wrapper .pth-fnd-grid{max-width:1200px;margin:0 auto;padding:10px 0;display:grid;grid-template-columns:1fr;gap:40px}\n@media(min-width:992px){#pth-founder-wrapper .pth-fnd-grid{grid-template-columns:1fr 300px}}\n#pth-founder-wrapper .pth-fnd-main{background:#fff;border-radius:12px}\n#pth-founder-wrapper .pth-fnd-intro{background:#eff6ff;border:1px solid #bfdbfe;border-radius:12px;padding:25px;display:flex;align-items:center;gap:22px;margin-bottom:40px}\n@media(max-width:768px){#pth-founder-wrapper .pth-fnd-intro{flex-direction:column;text-align:center}}\n#pth-founder-wrapper .pth-fnd-avatar{width:110px;height:110px;border-radius:50%;border:3px solid #1d4ed8;flex-shrink:0;overflow:hidden;background:#fff}\n#pth-founder-wrapper .pth-fnd-avatar img{width:110px;height:110px;object-fit:cover;display:block}\n#pth-founder-wrapper .pth-fnd-intro p{font-size:1.05rem;line-height:1.65;color:#1e293b;margin:0 0 10px 0}\n#pth-founder-wrapper .pth-fnd-section{margin-bottom:42px}\n#pth-founder-wrapper .pth-fnd-h3{display:flex;align-items:center;gap:12px;font-size:1.45rem;font-weight:800;color:#0f172a;margin:0 0 18px 0;line-height:1.3}\n#pth-founder-wrapper .pth-fnd-text{font-size:1.05rem;line-height:1.8;color:#334155;margin-bottom:15px}\n#pth-founder-wrapper .pth-fnd-text a{color:#1d4ed8;font-weight:700}\n#pth-founder-wrapper .pth-fnd-tags{display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:10px;margin:20px 0}\n@media(max-width:768px){#pth-founder-wrapper .pth-fnd-tags{justify-content:center}}\n#pth-founder-wrapper .pth-fnd-tag{background:#f1f5f9;color:#0f172a;padding:6px 14px;border-radius:20px;font-size:.9rem;font-weight:700;border:1px solid #cbd5e1}\n#pth-founder-wrapper .pth-fnd-side{position:sticky;top:20px;height:fit-content;background:#fff;border:1px solid #e2e8f0;border-radius:12px;padding:25px;box-shadow:0 4px 6px -1px rgba(0,0,0,.02)}\n#pth-founder-wrapper .pth-fnd-toc-title{font-size:.9rem;font-weight:800;color:#475569;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1px;margin-bottom:20px}\n#pth-founder-wrapper .pth-fnd-toc{list-style:none;padding:0;margin:0;display:flex;flex-direction:column;gap:14px}\n#pth-founder-wrapper .pth-fnd-toc a{display:flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;text-decoration:none;color:#334155;font-weight:700;font-size:.95rem}\n#pth-founder-wrapper .pth-fnd-toc a:hover{color:#1d4ed8}\n@media(max-width:992px){#pth-founder-wrapper .pth-fnd-side{position:static;margin-bottom:10px;order:-1}}\n<\/style>\n\n<div class=\"pth-fnd-header\">\n<h2 class=\"pth-fnd-title\">About the Founder<\/h2>\n<p class=\"pth-fnd-subtitle\">The background and mission behind Prime Tool Hub<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"pth-fnd-updated\">Last Updated: July 2026<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"pth-fnd-grid\">\n<div class=\"pth-fnd-main\">\n\n<div class=\"pth-fnd-intro\">\n<div class=\"pth-fnd-avatar\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/schoolict.net\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ruwan.jpg\" alt=\"Ruwan Mangala Suraweera, ICT educator and founder of Prime Tool Hub\" width=\"110\" height=\"110\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Prime Tool Hub started as a side project by Ruwan Mangala Suraweera, an Information and Communication Technology teacher in Sri Lanka. The goal was simple: stop sending student files to random websites just to convert or check something.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ruwan-suraweera-686455406\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color:#1d4ed8;font-weight:800;text-decoration:none\">\ud83d\udd17 Connect on LinkedIn<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"pth-fnd-1\" class=\"pth-fnd-section\">\n<h3 class=\"pth-fnd-h3\"><span>\ud83d\udd34<\/span> 1. Educational Background<\/h3>\n<p class=\"pth-fnd-text\">Ruwan graduated from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kln.ac.lk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Kelaniya<\/a> in 1999 with a B.Sc. in Physical Science, majoring in Statistics, Computing and Pure Mathematics. That mix matters more than it sounds: the statistics side shaped how the data tools on this site handle edge cases, and the pure mathematics side is why the logic tools follow formal rules instead of shortcuts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pth-fnd-text\">On 1 December 2013 he completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Education at the <a href=\"https:\/\/ou.ac.lk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open University of Sri Lanka<\/a>. That qualification changed how he writes documentation. Teaching theory forces you to think about what a learner already knows before you explain the next step, which is the reason every tool page here opens with a plain-language example instead of a feature list.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pth-fnd-tags\">\n<span class=\"pth-fnd-tag\">PHP<\/span>\n<span class=\"pth-fnd-tag\">WordPress Architecture<\/span>\n<span class=\"pth-fnd-tag\">Frontend Web Development<\/span>\n<span class=\"pth-fnd-tag\">C++ &amp; SQL<\/span>\n<span class=\"pth-fnd-tag\">Client-Side Processing<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"pth-fnd-2\" class=\"pth-fnd-section\">\n<h3 class=\"pth-fnd-h3\"><span>\ud83d\udfe1<\/span> 2. Experience in Education<\/h3>\n<p class=\"pth-fnd-text\">Since 2008 he has taught ICT in the Sri Lankan government school system. A large part of that job is watching where students get stuck, and the same three or four points come up every year: truth tables, number base conversion, Karnaugh maps, and regular expressions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pth-fnd-text\">He also runs schoolict.net, a free self-study platform for Sri Lankan students. Classroom work set one hard rule for this site: if a tool needs an explanation paragraph before a student can press the first button, the interface is wrong and gets rebuilt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"pth-fnd-3\" class=\"pth-fnd-section\">\n<h3 class=\"pth-fnd-h3\"><span>\ud83d\udfe2<\/span> 3. Software Development Journey<\/h3>\n<p class=\"pth-fnd-text\">Before moving to browser utilities, he built full desktop and server systems. One was a Human Resources Management System for the Faculty of Applied Sciences at the University of Sabaragamuwa. Others were database systems for manufacturing floors, written in C++, SQL and Visual Basic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pth-fnd-text\">Those projects taught a lesson that carried over directly: software that runs in a factory or a payroll office cannot afford a silent failure. A wrong answer delivered confidently is worse than an error message, which is why the tools here validate input before they calculate rather than after.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"pth-fnd-4\" class=\"pth-fnd-section\">\n<h3 class=\"pth-fnd-h3\"><span>\ud83d\udd34<\/span> 4. How These Tools Are Built<\/h3>\n<p class=\"pth-fnd-text\">Every tool on Prime Tool Hub follows the same internal build standard. There are no external JavaScript frameworks and no CDN dependencies, so a tool page keeps working after the network drops. Each tool is scoped to its own wrapper so one tool cannot break the styling of another, and images carry fixed dimensions so the page does not jump while it loads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pth-fnd-text\">Tools are grouped by task rather than scattered as dozens of single-purpose pages. A converter, its validator and its formatter usually live in one studio with tabs, because that is how people actually work through a file. You can see the full set in the <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolict.net\/tools\/free-web-tools-by-category\/\">free web tools by category<\/a> directory, or start with the <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolict.net\/tools\/top-10-client-side-offline-web-developer-tools\/\">ten most-used offline developer tools<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"pth-fnd-5\" class=\"pth-fnd-section\">\n<h3 class=\"pth-fnd-h3\"><span>\ud83d\udfe1<\/span> 5. A Commitment to Privacy<\/h3>\n<p class=\"pth-fnd-text\">Most free online utilities ask you to upload a file first. That single step hands a copy of your document, image or API key to a server you know nothing about, and you have no way to confirm it was deleted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pth-fnd-text\">Prime Tool Hub works the other way around. Wherever the browser is capable of doing the job, the job is done in the browser: the file never leaves your device and no copy reaches this server. The reasoning behind that decision, including what client-side processing can and cannot protect you from, is set out in the guide on <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolict.net\/tools\/securing-api-keys-client-side-data-processing\/\">securing API keys with client-side data processing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pth-fnd-text\">An honest limit: a handful of features still need a server, and any page where that applies says so on the page itself rather than hiding it in a policy document.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"pth-fnd-6\" class=\"pth-fnd-section\">\n<h3 class=\"pth-fnd-h3\"><span>\ud83d\udfe2<\/span> 6. How This Site Is Funded<\/h3>\n<p class=\"pth-fnd-text\">Prime Tool Hub is free to use and there is no paid tier, no account and no email wall. Running costs are covered by advertising displayed on the site. Advertisers have no influence over which tools get built or what the articles say, and no personal data processed inside a tool is ever shared with them, because that data never reaches this server in the first place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pth-fnd-text\">If a tool gives you a wrong result or a page is unclear, the contact form is the fastest way to reach him. Reader corrections are the main reason several tools on this site have been rewritten.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<aside class=\"pth-fnd-side\">\n<div class=\"pth-fnd-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/div>\n<ul class=\"pth-fnd-toc\">\n<li><a href=\"#pth-fnd-1\"><span>\ud83d\udd34<\/span> 1. Educational Background<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#pth-fnd-2\"><span>\ud83d\udfe1<\/span> 2. Experience in Education<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#pth-fnd-3\"><span>\ud83d\udfe2<\/span> 3. Software Development<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#pth-fnd-4\"><span>\ud83d\udd34<\/span> 4. How These Tools Are Built<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#pth-fnd-5\"><span>\ud83d\udfe1<\/span> 5. Commitment to Privacy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#pth-fnd-6\"><span>\ud83d\udfe2<\/span> 6. How This Site Is Funded<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Founder The background and mission behind Prime Tool Hub Last Updated: July 2026 Prime Tool Hub started as a side project by Ruwan Mangala Suraweera, an Information and Communication Technology teacher in Sri Lanka. 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