Moditha Kumara Email & Phone Number

Sri Lanka

Overall management of multiple short to medium term projects for local customers. The projectsincludes corporate websites, e-commerce platforms, web/mobile apps.Also working as a development manager for Cockerham Associates, USA to develop their SaaS cloud products (ERG Insight & Strategy Lighthouse). Another SaaS application based on Mongo, NestJs, MicroORM, VueJS3 and uWebsockets is also in development under my leadership.Define technology roadmap to use Open… Show more Overall management of multiple short to medium term projects for local customers. The projectsincludes corporate websites, e-commerce platforms, web/mobile apps.Also working as a development manager for Cockerham Associates, USA to develop their SaaS cloud products (ERG Insight & Strategy Lighthouse). Another SaaS application based on Mongo, NestJs, MicroORM, VueJS3 and uWebsockets is also in development under my leadership.Define technology roadmap to use Open Source stacks such as Drupal, Wordpress, NopCommerce, Symfony, Laravel, NodeJs, JQuery, Angular, Bootstrap, MySQL and .Net stack with EF/Core, ASP.Net/core, SQL Server and Azure platform services based on the client requirements & complexity of projects. I have introduced Unity3D to develop games and the first was released for Sri Lanka Telecom for their "save corals" initiative.Oversee R&D initiatives for Virtual Reality(VR) for architecture and e-learning (medical, manufacturing) based on Unity3D & Occulus Rift S development. Spearhead R&D for Augmented Reality(AR) based SaaS marketing platform. Overlooked and guided the migration of previous infrastructure from multiple vendors to MS Azure platform services to streamline IT infrastructure management and reduce operational cost. Show less

Lead a team on behalf of Digital Saber-USA to develop their products. Main project was for General Mills in USA to help their R&D teams to carry out seed cultivation research from green houses to large scale plantation. Technologies used includes PHP (Symfony), Android, JQuery, Bootstrap & MySQL. Web application allows R&D staff to initiate long term cultivation (1+ years) of selected seeds and track their growth patterns in the field using mobile app and sync the data. At the back-end data… Show more Lead a team on behalf of Digital Saber-USA to develop their products. Main project was for General Mills in USA to help their R&D teams to carry out seed cultivation research from green houses to large scale plantation. Technologies used includes PHP (Symfony), Android, JQuery, Bootstrap & MySQL. Web application allows R&D staff to initiate long term cultivation (1+ years) of selected seeds and track their growth patterns in the field using mobile app and sync the data. At the back-end data will be processed and passed into analysis software. I was responsible for managing the team and play a scrum master role to the team. I Implemented continuous deployment with automated testing including PHPUnit and functional testing using Selenium. Jenkins was used to manage the cycle.Elklink was another product we developed which is a SAAS based home surveillance application. It was built in .Net with SQL Server as the back-end. The hardware devices communicate with a central server on changes and users get alerts based on the configured rules.Did an R&D to build a real-time collaboration product. POC was developed using PhalconPHP, NodeJS, SocketIO, MySQL. Looked into NginX and Aerospike as potential replacements for Apache and MySQL for performance requirements. Show less

Lead a team of support engineers to provide technical customer support for Microsoft FAST search project. My responsibilities in managing the 24 x 7 operation involved in scheduling three shifts with the available engineers to make sure that a particular shift covers 1st & 2nd tier engineers as well as minimize stress level of employees. The team was responsible to provide follow-the-sun support and liaise with Americas, APAC, EMEA & Japan support teams to seamlessly transfer support tickets to… Show more Lead a team of support engineers to provide technical customer support for Microsoft FAST search project. My responsibilities in managing the 24 x 7 operation involved in scheduling three shifts with the available engineers to make sure that a particular shift covers 1st & 2nd tier engineers as well as minimize stress level of employees. The team was responsible to provide follow-the-sun support and liaise with Americas, APAC, EMEA & Japan support teams to seamlessly transfer support tickets to respective region at the end of each shift thus providing continuous support for customers. I was also responsible for hiring and training employees to adhere to Microsoft support KPIs, provide reports and participate in management meetings related to support operation. Show less

Sri Lanka

Involved in developing Velocity application on behalf of a USA client Intercim LLC (Now Dassault Systems). Velocity was a process execution solution mainly for complex manufacturing processes like automotive, aerospace industry. The application was based on .Net stack with Oracle back-end. I was responsible for development of modules, test & release based on the tasks assigned. I worked on-site at Minnesota office in US with the R&D team for various feature development of the project.

Sri Lanka

Consultation was provided for various web based projects undertook by the company including selecting technologies, business analysis & development guidance for developers. I acted as an external evaluator of project progress and assist as needed. Participated in customer visits with marketing managers to help convert sales.

California, Usa

Continued improving Media Solutions (Pvt) Ltd, flagship products bizOA. R&D converting classic ASP developed product to MS.NET technology released in 2002. Lead the performance/certification tests to bizOA to get certified by IBM, Oracle and Sun under their partnership programs. I was also responsible to liaise between Sri Lanka development team and USA marketing team. Develop Proof of Concept and suggest roadmaps to product management.

Sri Lanka

I joined Media Solutions (Pvt) Ltd as a Systems Programmer in 1997 and worked up-to Software Engineer/Team lead before appointing to MediaSolv.com HQ in USA. We were implementing a messaging and groupware product called Millennium Office which comprised of multiple products (bizOA, wapOA - Groupware and messaging suite with mobile support based on WAP). vProject was another web based project management system developed in Media Solutions (Pvt) Ltd. I worked in many areas through out the… Show more I joined Media Solutions (Pvt) Ltd as a Systems Programmer in 1997 and worked up-to Software Engineer/Team lead before appointing to MediaSolv.com HQ in USA. We were implementing a messaging and groupware product called Millennium Office which comprised of multiple products (bizOA, wapOA - Groupware and messaging suite with mobile support based on WAP). vProject was another web based project management system developed in Media Solutions (Pvt) Ltd. I worked in many areas through out the development life cycle including development of Install Shield packaging, Module development for bizOA & vProject. I was also involved in developing Multimedia presentations using Macromedia Director. As the team lead I did the localization framework for bizOA. Show less

Sri Lanka

I had the opportunity to work part-time while studying at the first internet service provider in Srilanka. Lanka Internet introduced first internet cafes (coined Internet Surfboards) through out the country and I helped in establishing these points. I was responsible to help customers to access internet services such as web browsing and checking emails. Since the internet was very new, this was a challenging task since I had to create temporary emails to interested customers and teach them to… Show more I had the opportunity to work part-time while studying at the first internet service provider in Srilanka. Lanka Internet introduced first internet cafes (coined Internet Surfboards) through out the country and I helped in establishing these points. I was responsible to help customers to access internet services such as web browsing and checking emails. Since the internet was very new, this was a challenging task since I had to create temporary emails to interested customers and teach them to use Pegasus mail client and also help them to browser internet with Netscape Navigator. I was probably one of the very few in Sri Lanka who had unlimited access to internet at that time. This gave me immense potential to learn lot of technologies and boost my interested in computer/software systems. Show less

Master'S Degree, Information Technology

High School

Activities and Societies: Chess Club, Badminton Team, Computer Society