Maris Stella college,Negombo

University of Colombo

Staffordshire University

Director Product Management at Cut+Dry

Codify

Director Product Management

Co-Organiser for Product Tank  Colombo : <a href="https://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Colombo/">https://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Colombo/</a>

Mind the Product

Product Tank Colombo Organizer

- Lead the development team to build a MVP from idea to production within 3 months (mobile app + enterprise platform) which enabled Card of Joy to validate the initial hypothesis.  
-  Implemented a digital gift cards distribution flow that resulted in a 30% increase in monthly cards sales and 20% reduction in distribution costs. 
-  Spearhead the development of an internal tool that helped the operations team to reduce the merchant onboarding duration from 3 months to 2 weeks.  
-  Attended to support requests that resulted in a 15% save in time spent by the development team on support tickets.  
-  Lead three development teams in more than 50 production releases within the last 12 months.  
-  Implemented a design process that included prototyping, implementing and usability testing which resulted in 25% reduction in time and cost in rework.

The Gifted Company

Product Manager

- Extensively communicate with the customers to acquire requirements.  
-  Design systems that are efficient and meet customer requirements.
-  Mentor junior colleagues on technical aspects as well as project management practices.  
-  Advocate scrum practices in teams and share knowladge and best practices of scrum to deliver better software to customers.

Mazarin (Pvt) Ltd

Senior Software Engineer

Fanminder – US startup focused on social-mobile SaaS loyalty programs with 30k SMB’s. Developed features using an agile approach with frequent releases for production. 

Rikslunchen Restaurants – Designed, implemented, tested and maintained the system that handled restaurants who accepted Risklunchen Lunch cards in Sweden.

Software Engineer

Avtalsbanken - Swedish startup aimed at disrupting how contracts are handled; Implemented the Nuxeo services platform integration which was the base platform of the product.

Chathuraka Waas