Cloud of Goods is an online marketplace for people to rent the things they want. Today, Cloud of Goods is focused on renting personal mobility and baby gear to travelers, but the grand vision is to build the world’s largest pool of shared goods that people can rent when they want from wherever they are. While we rent travel goods today, anything from household goods to sporting goods to tools to pretty much everything that people want to borrow instead of buying will eventually be available in the ‘Cloud’. We strongly believe this is the future as the global population reaches close to the maximum capacity the planet can handle. Resource sharing is a must-have in order to make the world a sustainable place. Cloud of Goods rental platform will play a pivotal role in navigating our communities towards sustainability!

iLabs is a Sri Lanka based corporation providing off-shore Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Engineering, eCommerce, Mobile Applications, Ed Tech, Med Tech, Fin Tech and UI/UX Design help for entrepreneurs, startups, and companies around the world. We can either work with you on project basis or provide remote tech teams to work with you directly as an extension of your team. Typically we can lower your tech design and development cost by 80% to 90% compared to USA prices. See our new website at: https://ilabs.lk for more details. * Hired and mentored a top quality engineering and business team, and quickly positioned the company as the sort-after place for entrepreneurs, startups, and even mid to large companies to bring their technology ideas and products to life. * At iLabs, we solved what the most outsourcing shops are lacking: (1) Rapid prototyping & MVP development capabilities, (2) Data driven, iterative development, (3) Engineers having entrepreneurial mindset.More details on: https://ilabs.lk

Leading enterprise architecture for Sephora's Data Platform & MarTech initiatives. Segmentation, Marketing Orchestration, Omni Channel Personalization as well as underlying data infrastructure, data micro services, etc. are my areas of responsibility.

Launched in January 2021, JobEka.lk has quickly become the premier jobs portal in Sri Lanka. As we celebrate the 1st anniversary of JobEka.lk, we have claimed the top spot amongst the jobs sites in Sri Lanka and within the short 1 year of our existence, we have helped hundreds of thousands of qualified candidates find their next dream job while helping thousands of employers to find the best candidates. JobEka.lk is not just a jobs board, it is an end to end recruitment tool for companies!

Helping Sephora.com cope with the enormous growth they are experiencing. I'm leading many large scale projects and strategic initiatives such as building new Data Center, Credit Card Tokenization, Next Generation POS System with Omni Channel focus, API Management Platform, etc., and also helping with standardizing, automating, and scaling DevOps at Sephora.

Built a team of Silicon-Valley professionals, designed & developed an innovative verification technology and web & mobile application (Won the PayPal’s big innovation award #1 place out of 650 innovations). At Rentalic, we pioneered what many experts call “The Sharing Economy” or "Collaborative Consumption". See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rentalic | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL24D09D9C9A6974D4* Designed and built some great pieces of technology including over the phone payment processing (Using IVR & leveraging PayPal APIs) before PayPal released mobile payment applications.* Many speaking engagements including prominent conferences such as SXSW, MakerFaire, etc. * Many awards including PayPal Developer Challenge, Make magazine Editor’s Choice Award and nominated for many more...* Media: We were featured on NBC's The Nate Berkus Show, TIME magazine, Boston Globe, New York Times, Consumerist, TreeHugger, CNet, Thrillist, Dallas News, Wired, Mashable, KGO radio, and hundreds of other blogs and news sites.

* Reported to Steve Schoettler, co-founders of Zynga. * Identified issues, inefficiencies, and scalability/future growth requirements for releases and developed a roadmap/plan of action for release management and release engineering.* Designed and implemented release process, automation, and roles & responsibilities for Zynga’s payments team.

* Built the LinkedIn’s release team from ground up and established the release engineering and release management process to make the production deployments efficient, scalable, and repeatable.* Scaled up the production deployments from single data center of 70 servers to multiple data centers of 1000+ servers.* Lead the planning and execution of software deployment and configuration of LinkedIn’s new Chicago data center. We were able to cut-over site traffic to the new data center with no significant user impact.* Worked closely with cross-functional teams, engineering/qa/performance teams, product management, and business units for planning and execution of production releases.* Responsible for making the release Go/NoGo recommendations. * Created the disaster recovery plan for release team. * Tracked release metrics and made constant improvements.

* Won the “PayPalian” award in 2007 and “Technology Leaders” award in 2008.* I was well-known within PayPal for my cross functional release improvement initiative called “Flip By 10”* Key member of PayPal’s release management team. Technical advisor to the release engineering team. * Lead the technical design review meetings with a cross-functional team of 20+ consists of Architects, Engineers, and Site Operations. * Lead the release strategy, site availability and scalability enhancements planning sessions.* Responsible for identifying high risk architectural changes and make safe deployment recommendations. * Worked with site operations team to debug live site issues, prioritize issues, and find timely resolutions.* SOX & PCI compliance, Disaster recovery planning.

• Extensive knowledge of PayPal site components, architecture, and infrastructure. • Experienced working in a highly technical NOC environment. Constantly working under extreme pressure situations. Working in evening and graveyard shifts. On-call support one week per month.• Familiar with site monitoring tools and manual debugging of issues on Linux servers• Pushing software releases to the live server farms (1000 + servers). Working with rpm packages and Unix/Linux servers every day.• Coordinating with site operations, release management, change management, development, QA, to schedule, plan, and push bug fixes to the live site seamlessly.• Attending release planning meetings, coordinating between the teams during releases, actively engaging in troubleshooting live site issues, etc.• Maintain a personal release success rate above 99%• Received the “Blue Moon” award in Q4-2006.

* Designed and developed the installer on Windows platforms for Oracle Application Server 10g(10.1.3), Oracle 9i Release 1, Oracle 9i Release 2, Oracle 9i Release 2 for win64, and Oracle 10g database install development. See: http://docs.oracle.com/html/B13805_02/title.htm* Designed and developed a java based configuration tool for Oracle HTMLDB configuration on a remote database.* Designed and developed a c++ application to detect JDK’s already installed on the user machines. * Designed and developed InstallShield 11 install for Oracle BAM product which included writing a custom Visual Basic executable as well.

* Worked as a Technical Support Engineer at InstallShield’s tech support department and supported InstallShield Professional and InstallShield for Windows Installer products.