Sameera Perera Email & Phone Number

Fort Lauderdale, FL, US

Florida, United States

[Celigo is a Series C automation platform company, headquartered in California. The Celigo platform allows IT and line of business teams alike to automate both common and custom business processes, enabling the entire organization to be more agile and innovate faster than competitors].Current role:Designing and building the next big thing at Celigo, in.

Colombo, Sri Lanka | Hyderabad, India

• Led the CloudExtend division delivering 6 B2B products with a geographically distributed team of 20 engineers, working closely with product management, sales, marketing, and support.Key achievements:
• Transformed a struggling product division and effected 500% ARR growth through astute technical leadership, process expertise and cultural change management.
• Spearheaded re-architecture of 6 standalone products to a shared, serverless, microservices architecture backed by an effective CI/CD strategy, reducing release cycles by 4 months, and increasing code reuse up to 80%.
• Instilled an open and respectful culture, with an emphasis on shared learning and growth, resulting in an 87% reduction in attrition rate and scoring 10% above company average and 12% industry average in employee.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

• [WSO2 is the largest open-source integration vendor by revenue and customers. WSO2 technology stack powers an estimated 18 trillion transactions annually].Provided leadership to WSO2’s Platform Technical Group: a.
• Led 5 SDM’s and 50+ engineers to re-architect and modernize WSO2 core platform to enable new capabilities required by downstream product teams.
• Founded the WSO2 EMM team, rallying engineers from a dissolved subsidiary, mentoring them towards building WSO2’s Enterprise Mobility Mangement & IoT platform.

Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

• Key achievements:
• Conceptualized and built an innovative Decision Support System for engineer allocations to R&D, client services and pre-sales function, saving 64 hrs./month of executive team effort.
• Drove agile best practices using scrum to ensure on-time delivery while managing and meeting expectations of 22 downstream product teams.

Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Co-founded Pragmatic Test Labs with 3 others and set the stage for the company's initial growth by securing initial customers and providing technical expertise.

• Key achievements:
• Conceptualized, researched, and drove productization of an application suite integrating different Google workspace services to NetSuite and paved the way for CloudExtend brand to be an independent product division at.
• Managed an outsourced QA team in the absence of in-house resources which drove 67% reduction in defect escape rate within the first two quarters.

• Key achievements:
• Architected and built the most enduring software product in organization's history contributing nearly $1MN in ARR, 11 years after last major release, requiring zero maintenance or customer support.
• Architected and built an integration of a $50MN food distribution operation, which ran maintenance free for 6 years, processing 56K transactions/day.
• Architected and UX designed a MS Outlook integration client, installed by ~70% of NetSuite’s ~4MN users and managed multiple vendors for its solution development and QA.
• Pioneered Celigo’s transformation from an integration service to a product company, as its first product engineer and product manager.

Calcey was a technology partner for Celigo, Inc. As a consultant, was allocated to architect and build Celigo's first ever software product. As the sole resource for this project, designed, implemented, tested, and handled customer support making this product a commercial success.Provided technical leadership to projects on a wide range of.

• Developed the C++/MFC based desktop client platform for a high-volume billing system purpose-built for the telecommunications industry.
• Led porting of legacy Windows desktop CRM client to a based Apache CGI web application on Solaris.
• Developed the graphical Workflow Manager which enabled business users to rewrite business rules using a drag and drop design canvas and script run-time behavior using Python.

Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Architected and built several bleeding edge technologies at the time including WSE based file sharing for massive legal documents and one of the most feature rich AJAX based websites for selling stock photography.

Designed and built WSS4C, Axis C++'s draft implementation of OASIS Web ServicesSecurity: SOAP Messaging Security 1.0 specification.

Mba, Management

Bachelor Of Information Technology

Awarded Prof. V. K. Samaranayake Medal for the Best Performance at Bachelor of Information Technology (External) Degree 2006

B. Sc. Eng. (Hons), Major: Civil Engineering, Minor: Management