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San Francisco, California, United States

San Francisco Bay Areasan

We help founders (CEOs, COOs, CMOs) of early-stage US and European technology ventures and investment firms to achieve success by providing proven B2C and B2B growth strategies, GTM expertise, funding strategies, financial modeling, and operational support. We also play a vital role in recruiting key team members to facilitate successful expansion into local and global ecosystems. With our comprehensive approach, we empower organizations to thrive and achieve their goals effectively.

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

Muve is a reputed law firm based in the United Kingdom and started in 2019 (rebranding from Connect2Law). It is certified by the Council for Licensed Conveyancers and recognised to trade in England and Wales. Muve has won and has grown rapidly over three consecutive years, even acquiring Vohara Solutions, a Legal Process Outsourcing company to cater to ever-growing demand.Innovation is at the heart of all Muve operations and Muve see technology as a game-changer in conveyancing. I joined Muve to elevate Muve from its current tech supporter service to a tech lead service. I am responsible for bringing in the right tech resources, formulating the digital transformation roadmap and leading from the front to achieve that roadmap with the support of my team.

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

ServeAlly provides high caliber, staff augmentation services in the IT domain. It helps you to add skilled technical resources to your in-house development team on either a short or long-term basis, without the cost and commitment of taking on new full-time hires. ServeAlly services give you global access to talented and qualified technical professionals, ready to become a part of your team and help you meet your 2020 business goals.

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

Pyxle is a global digital consulting company helping large and mid-sized enterprises ignite their digital performance on a continuous and sustained basis. Some of Pyxle's specializations include software engineering, application maintenance, DevOps / TechOps, product development, application and infrastructure automation and Support, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Business Process Consulting, and System Integrations. Pyxle is a Tavistock Group company.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Brandix Apparel Lanka is the largest apparel manufacturer in Sri Lanka with facilities in India, Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Haiti and; accounts for an annual turnover of around US$900 million. I lead the Group Delivery department, which is the managed services, software development, and implementation arm of all ICT engagements across the Brandix group. In addition to managing an in-house development team, the Group Delivery department was responsible for overlooking the digital transformation journey and governing software projects outsourced to vendors as well.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Innovations Business Unit of Zone24X7 works as the offshore innovations and RnD arm for one of the largest retail chains in USA. The BU is responsible for implementing the POCs from ideation stage, move the POCs to field test and at the end hand it over to customer DevOps teams for production. My key responsibilities include; manage the development teams of field test and POC projects involving software applications, robotics and machine learning for retail sector, hire new talent to the BU to fit the resource needs for coming year, define and implement a project management process that will let the company scale up the number of projects with better efficiencies and track all projects under my purview and escalate any blockers to customer.

Barcelona, Spain

PASSNFLY a brand of Secure Accreditation Solutions & Technologies is a technology start-up based in Barcelona, Spain.PASSNFLY provides services to air passengers, airlines and airports through a innovative mobile solution that empowers aviation systems-integration and provides the next generation of global aviation technology.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Responsible for the overall technology vision, commercial software product development, research and development, strategic planning of companywide IT infrastructure and; delivery of all projects. Spearhead all aspects of architecture and software development, selection of software to suite strategic objectives and customer expectations, and analysis of resource requirements for staffing of projects.

Palo Alto, Ca, Usa

Innovating mobile payment products for the Underserved/Underbanked market. MOVO product innovation leverages existing and emerging payment standards and banking infrastructure, resulting in a significant decrease in costs and latency found in traditional solutions, while increasing the consumers’ ability to control, manage and interact with their money in real-time. My focus was to drive the technology strategy and solution so we meet our business objectives effectively and efficiently through our solution.

Stockholm, Sweden

Worked as a software consultant in a six month assignment. The objectives were gathering project knowledge and building close partnership with Altcom employees as well as Altcom’s customers; to start Mazarin as a partner software consultancy firm in Sri Lanka.While being part of the development team that manage one of Altcom’s in-house built development tools; which allow rapid development of web-based wizards, I was instrumental in re-designing and enhancing the tool by integrating new capabilities and software available in the industry.

Sri Lanka

Worked in the capacity of a software engineer at Virtusa Corporation’s technology center in Sri Lanka. In addition to working as a Java engineer in web applications development I have involved extensively in pre-sales activities to acquire new projects into the company from potential US clients.

Sri Lanka

Worked in many project at all stages of software development life cycle, while majority of the projects being automation of Sri Lanka’s government departments. Coordinated projects with the customers and involved in extensively pre-sales, requirements study and scoping. Has worked in the capacity of a team-lead responsible of several modules and, leading small teams of software engineers.Worked primarily on Oracle Developer 6i development in the capacity of a Software Engineer. Also involved in ASP and VB developments. Played the roles of a module leader towards the end.

Masters, Business Administration

Concentration in Marketing

Bsc (Hons), Information Technology, 2Nd Class Upper Division

Was following the degree on part time basis through Informatics Institute of Computer Studies in Sri Lanka.

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