Chamith Siriwardena Email & Phone Number

Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

• Forming & Leading an Engineering Team of 60 Engineers in Sri Lanka to build the next generation wagering platform for Amused Group with:
• Higher transactional throughput
• Innovative product features
• Lower operational overheads

Colombo, Sri Lanka

• Leading the convergence of the two largest revenue generating products in Pearson (MyLabs & Mastering) into a single platform on the cloud for:
• Better customer experience
• Faster & predictable feature delivery
• Reduced operational costs Responsibilities Included:
• Decision making on mode of migration (Lift & Shift vs Re-platform vs Re-write) based on trade-off analysis.
• Planning, Execution, Monitoring & Refinement of migration, development & testing based on product roadmap priorities & team capacity.

New Delhi, India

• Leading a strategic offshore vendor team of 350 engineers to build a brand-new cloud-native learning platform with 40+ microservices for Pearson to:
• Deliver next-generation interactive learning content
• Enable implementation of emerging new business models
• Reduce duplication of effort by having common functionality pre-builtResponsibilities Included:
• Defining & executing the environment strategy for development, testing and staging environments to accelerate independent delivery of microservices and to enable early integration & performance testing.
• Implementing the engineering workflow with Fail-Fast strategy to provide early & accurate feedback to developers in lower environments, but Fail-Safe in higher environments.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

• Initiating & driving the Stability & Sustainability (S&S) program in Pearson Higher Education to:
• Increase the availability of mission critical applications
• Improve the predictability of application performance
• Reduce the mean time to resolution (MTTR) of major incidentsResponsibilities Included:
• Identifying top 10 problems in Higher Education Platforms by analyzing incidents & problems reported in 2013 - 2015.
• Forming a multi disciplinary team of 14 Principal & Lead engineers across Sri Lanka & USA to drive root cause analysis and the resolution of identified major problems.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

• Building & Leading the mobile application development team in Pearson to:
• Expand the mobile app footprint in education market
• Achieve strategic goals of each business unit through mobile applications
• Drive innovation in Leaning ApplicationsResponsibilities Included:
• Laying out & driving the mobile application development strategy based on business & technology goals for all the business units in Pearson in 2015/16.
• Growing the in-house mobile development team from 4 to 25 engineers in 2015/16 and transitioning in 75% of work from vendors across the globe.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

• Driving the transition of engineering ownership of many cash-cow products to Sri Lanka based team successfully.
• Leading a successful, high-quality, on-time delivery of the re-design of the largest revenue generation product in Pearson HigherEd space
• Managing a team of 20 - 30 engineers at different levels of experience and of various tech-stacks such as Java &.NET

Colombo, Sri Lanka

• Successfully leading engineering teams and delivering critical / high risk features of high quality on time
• Leading one of the largest web accessibility efforts in Pearson HigherEd and building a valuable BoK on web accessibility which helped make our products compliant with global standards
• Successful adoption of many new technologies in.NET and Java tech-stacks to resolve key outstanding issues

Colombo, Sri Lanka

• Gaining exposure to solid engineering principals in a few mission critical applications for eCollege. (Eg:- a billing system, tool deployment platform)
• Getting groomed under effective technical leads with attention to both technical & non-technical aspects
• Gaining recognition as a star performer with the talent demonstrated with a rare skill-set.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

• Gaining exposure to cutting edge technologies including R&D to support a few strategic moves in the organization

Bachelor’S Degree, Information Systems, 1St Class Honors

Master’S Degree, Computer Science, Incomplete

G. C. E. Advanced Level, Mathematics, 1Xa 1Xb 1Xc

Activities and Societies: Photography

G. C. E. Ordinary Level, Distinctions For All Subjects

Activities and Societies: Scouting