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Colombo, Wp, Lk

Empowering businesses and startups to transform ideas into impactful digital products through strategic technology partnerships. Committed to driving digital transformation and aligning technology with vision, creating pathways for sustainable growth.

Singapore, Singapore, Sg

Revolutionizing the global telco industry through world-class & disruptive technology innovations and building the futuristic, cloud-agnostic, SaaS telco operating system that will power the aspiring journey of, Giving power back to the customers, Leading innovation in digital services and Building a great place to work and grow.𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀- Lead the Circles-X product/platform (SaaS - www.circles.co/) development- Lead over 100 engineers in Singapore, Bangalore, and Colombo- Instrumental in developing various core capabilities to enhance the Circles-X platform- Build the core capabilities of the platform to launch in North American country

Singapore, Singapore, Sg

Joined Circles.Life to establish the Sri Lanka Engineering PDC, aiming to revolutionize the global telco industry with innovative, cloud-agnostic, SaaS-based technology. After the success of the Sri Lanka PDC, I was entrusted to set up the India Engineering PDC.𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀𝗦𝗿𝗶 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗮 𝗣𝗗𝗖 𝗘𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁- Built the Sri Lanka engineering center from scratch during the COVID-19 pandemic, initially operating virtually.- Scaled the PDC to 100+ engineers in one year.- Created strong teams in Product Engineering (backend, frontend, full-stack), Mobile Development (iOS/Android), SDET, Data Engineering, and SysOps/DevOps.- Led all engineering, hiring, and operational aspects, including setting up the legal entity.- Mentoring and guiding individuals and teams to reach their full potential while collaborating with other department heads- Supported the successful launch of the Circles platform in Japan (POVO/KDDI) during COVID-19.𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗣𝗗𝗖 𝗘𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁- Entrusted to build the India PDC after the success of the Sri Lanka PDC.- Led multi-location/vendor evaluation and selected Bangalore as the PDC site.- Used the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) model to grow the team to 50 engineers and transferred them to Circles.Life.𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝗹𝗲𝘀-𝗫 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽- Since 2023, led the Circles-X SaaS platform development with teams across Singapore, Sri Lanka, and India.- Enabled the first successful launch of the Circles-X platform in Pakistan (Onic/E&).- Successfully supported and implemented DevX (Developer Experience) for full CI/CD automation.

San Jose, California , Us

Promote a high-performance business development culture and provide leadership and guidance across the company to increase revenue and profitability by identifying new opportunities, refining product and/or services offerings & strategies, and maintaining fruitful senior-level relationships with clients and partners. • Lead and build a high-performance business development culture where team members are focused on their goals and results • Provide leadership to achieve the organization's business development growth objectives • Monitor and manage various functions under business development team (sales, account management, solutioning, marketing, and channel partner management) to ensure they work as a cohesive ecosystem • Teams to be managed via monthly KRAs and annual Terms of Reference revisions. • Devise and maintain vision, strategy, and execution plans for new revenue generation opportunities for the organization • Chairing key strategic accounts meetings to maintain and grow revenue year-on-year • Work with respective project delivery, finance, and disciplines to make sure the projects deliveries are done to uplift customer sentiments

San Jose, California , Us

Endorsed with the responsibility of directing and supporting the organization's next growth curve by bringing in world class professional service practices and technical knowledge management (TKM) initiatives while providing the leadership for key delivery units and managing key accounts of the organization, which includes a Tier 1 retailer in the US.Responsibilities;• Uplifting professional services of the company • Provide leadership to Innovation, Big Data & Data Science business units • Nurture Innovation Culture within the Organization • Build companywide technical knowledge management initiatives • Bootstrapping New Client accounts • Funding & Budgeting • Key Account Management • Program Management• Industry and University Reach

San Jose, California , Us

Business unit head of one of the three business units of the organization to provide engineering leadership while managing the delivery, client, budget and talentResponsibilities;• Stakeholder Management • World-Class Engineering Delivery • Robust and Scalable Solution Architecture • Building and Fostering High-Performance Teams • Attracting the Best Talent • Retain and Nurture the Best Talent and Culture • Industry and University Reach

San Jose, California , Us

Responsible to handle multiple projects while grooming other project managers and tech leads• Drive the project end to end and deliver successfully (on time, budget with quality) • Provide engineering leadership and drive the tech lead and the engineering teams • Responsible for the architecture & design, engineering process, best practices and quality • Make sure to create the right team for projects considering the nature • Manage sudden resource needs and complications • Conduct own projects during reviews while participating in other project reviews• Participate in essential engineering/program/requirement discussions • Groom and mentor project seniors/leads and other project managers • Talent acquisition and management covering, engineering, project management, quality assurance, UI/UX

San Jose, California , Us

Technically drive the project deliveries while being responsible for timely delivery, within budget as well as laying a solid technical foundation. • Drive the project end to end and deliver successfully (on time, budget with quality) • Provide engineering leadership and drive the tech lead and the engineering teams • Responsible for the architecture & design, engineering process, best practices and quality • Make sure to create the right team for projects considering the nature • Manage sudden resource needs and complications • Conduct own projects during reviews while participating in other project reviews• Participate in essential engineering/program/requirement discussions • Groom and mentor project seniors/leads • Talent acquisition and management covering, engineering, project management, quality assurance, UI/UX

San Jose, California , Us

Joined to lead the engineering teams and build open-source/Java engineering expertise • Responsible for talent acquisition, talent management and to deliver solid engineering solutions for US clients • Successfully developed and delivered several projects. One of the notable projects included e-commerce enhancements for Tier-1 retailer in the US • Several US client visits to represent the company and to deal with engineering & management stakeholders

Open World was a UK based company which was providing both online and offline software application for the Hospitality Industry. Joined Open World to build, lead, and guide the e-commerce engineering teams and also to take the existing technology platforms to the next level by leveraging best in class open systems. Successfully handled many web-based e-commerce solutions which include online hotel reservation systems and price comparison engines by integrating multiple booking engines.Roles Played: • Head of the Java Team• Software Architect • PoC and Research & Development • Technical Support and guidance • Reviewer (architecture, design, and code)Technologies Java, XSLT / XML, Apache Axis, Apache HTTP Server, Velocity, Apache Jserv, Hibernate, SOAP, Postgresql, Perl, Apache XML –RPC

Colombo, Western Province, Lk

Upon graduating, promoted to the SSE and provided the opportunity to play multiple roles at the organization and project levels Notable achievements are; • Development of the reusable libraries on top of Oracle Developer Forms and Reports which were reused throughout the organization for multiple projects • Trained internal staff on .NET and also the development of reusable components, architecture, and design • Played significant and key roles in many projects throughout the project lifecycle which includes requirement analysis, architecture & design, development, implementation, customer engagement, and training

Colombo, Western Province, Lk

I was awarded a full scholarship (5 years) to pursue the B.Sc. (Hons) in Information Systems. Academic studies were conducted part-time (weekends) while working full time at the company.Worked in many projects during this period and successfully provided the contribution during the entire project life cycle to deliver the projects on time, with quality, and within budgets while getting support, mentoring, and guidance from senior staff.

Mba, Information Technology

Bsc (Hons) In Information Systems, Information Systems

High School, Mathematics