Lakshitha Surasinghe Email & Phone Number

Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

 Founded startup company with goal of improving requirements management for new software product development by building a fully-integrated web-based visual requirements management tool. Facilitated better and more rapid understanding of software project requirements by enabling distributed development teams to visualize and manage requirements using interactive tool and to collaborate in real time. Built a strong foundation for faster software project completion with increased modeling speed and improved turnaround times for proposed changes by defining a domain specific visual language and templates. Heightened efficiency of software project execution by automatically and immediately posting changes to online users with approvals managed interactively system-wide without using email providing an added layer of security.

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 Commanded superior strategic leadership directing development of innovative software products, as well as overseeing creation and management of company’s business strategy, organizational structure and direction. Excelled in progressively challenging executive leadership, technical and business management positions, promoted to CTO, before MillenniumIT’s sale to London Stock Exchange Group, due to outstanding performance. Optimized achievement of financial and technical objectives by developing/managing an operational budget to control costs and a technology roadmap with design patterns/processes and development standards using best practices. Expanded technical capabilities by continuing software design and development work initiated in previous role as Chief Software Architect and further extending the technology stack in the current CTO position. Decreased development time for new products by as much as 50% from conception to implementation by utilizing patented GUI technology that allowed graphic designers and frontend/backend developers to collaborate on one platform. Increased overall efficiency of development projects by creating an automated framework for configuration change for all MillenniumIT products and an installation and environment management system. Impacted operational effectiveness, resolved connectivity issues and ensured data integrity by building a low-latency interface for 3rd-party connectivity on InfiniBand network and NoSQL data warehouse with FUSE distributed file system. Valued as trusted leader and advisor, expertly guided senior technology and cross-functional project teams by cultivating productive collaborative relationships for successful execution of software development projects.

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 Led new product development by innovating new and alternative means of developing and operating capital market trading systems resulting in award of 5 U.S. patents (see “Patents” section below). Simplified reconfiguration/reuse of trading system software by patenting a mechanism to create a configurable generic platform, with changes requiring no compilation, in use by 40 different client Stock Exchanges globally. Enabled management of large numbers of projects simultaneously executed by small teams at reduced development and testing costs by developing a patented high-performance, secure core technology as a base for all company’s products. Facilitated operation out of Sri Lanka, significantly reducing costs while producing high-quality software, contributing to sale of company to London Stock Exchange Group in 2009. Created design/development processes and procedures. Served a key leadership role in hiring, designing/delivering training programs and mentoring core product architects and senior engineers ensuring they had required skills and experience. Ensured GUI presents current data, enabling operation worldwide where slow and low bandwidth communications are in use, by patenting a means to reduce needed bandwidth and effects of network outages between GUI and data center. Improved operational efficiency by conceptualizing, designing and implementing MillenniumIT’s Release Management System.

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 Developed technology to improve software fault-tolerance, able to achieve 99.999% uptime utilizing secure hot backup sites at different geographic locales to maintain continuity in case of catastrophic failures. Realized better performance and lower costs in maintaining software fault-tolerance by utilizing distributed and parallel processing on small computers instead of mainframes.