Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
Tech executive / software architect with nearly 25 years of experience in developing, designing and managing a wide range of production systems and teams, from high frequency trading systems for financial markets in the US, Europe and Hong Kong, to regulatory compliance systems for the Philippines government/ILO, mission critical e-commerce platforms for Fortune-100 corporations and prop-tech in Australia. - Lead developer of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Central Gateway (2012 - 2013) - Led the team that developed Sysco's new e-commerce experience (Sysco Shop), through which a significant fraction of their $60B/yr revenue runs (2019) - Designed and developed the London Stock Exchange Group's first post trade risk management system from the ground up (2009) - Led :Different Technologies' engineering team globally through series A and B funding rounds (2020 - 2021) - Led the team that developed the Labor Law Compliance System of the Philippines (manages labor compliance for a labor force of approx. 40 million) (2014 - 2015) - Member of LSEG Technologies' core Matching Engine developer team (circa 2007 - 2009) - Rewrote LSEG's Smart Order Router core to achieve 10µs latency (2011) - Over 10 years of hands-on software engineering experience in 6 different languages/technology stacks: C/C++, Java, JavaScript, PHP and Python. - 10 years of engineering management experience, managing teams of 50-100 software engineers, QAs, PMs, BAs and DevOps - 8 years of experience in senior leadership - Training over 300 engineers and conducting nearly 1000 interviews throughout career - Onsite experience: New York, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Austin, Houston, Sydney
- Leading all :Different engineering staff globally. - Grew the team from 12 to 60+ engineers, from seed stage to series B funding. - Developed an evidence-based agile process, a collaborative engineering playbook, and an effective engineering culture, increasing average team delivery speed by over 50%. - Managing all product engineering teams globally (Sydney, Colombo). - Direct involvement in code and architecture, in collaboration with the CTO. - Member of the company executive leadership team, contributing to strategic direction
Leading engineering for Sysco LABS' Customer Experience (CX) organization, tasked with delivering customer facing software, leading a team of 60+ engineers. Responsible for product architecture, technology strategy, engineering standards, R&D, training & skills development. Oversaw go-live of Sysco's new web-based e-commerce experience (Sysco Shop) and version 2 of Sysco's delivery fleet tracker (Sysco Delivery).
Leading engineering for SyscoLABS' CAKE POS product, leading a team of 80+ engineers, QA and BA. Responsible for: product architecture, technology strategy, training & skills development, project management, R&D and engineering standards & processes. Oversaw the scaling and stabilization of the product for 2500+ customers, including the adoption of microservices.
Head of engineering & delivery for CAKE's flagship product (CAKE POS), leading a team of 80+ engineers, QA, BA and PMs. Responsible for: product architecture, technology strategy, training & skills development, project management, R&D and engineering standards & processes.