Experience

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  Cut+Dry

  • Canada
  • Software Development
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Senior Director of Product

    • Jan 2023 - Present

  • Director Product Management

    • Sep 2019 - Jun 2023

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  Mind the Product

  • Colomb

  • Product Tank Colombo Organizer

    • Oct 2019 - Present
    • Colomb

    Co-Organiser for Product Tank Colombo : https://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Colombo/

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  The Gifted Company

  • Sri Lanka

  • Product Manager

    • Jul 2017 - Oct 2019
    • Sri Lanka

    - 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.

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  Mazarin (Pvt) Ltd

  • Sri Lanka
  • IT Services and IT Consulting
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Senior Software Engineer

    • Feb 2016 - Aug 2017

    - 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.

  • Software Engineer

    • Feb 2012 - Jan 2016

    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.

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  Mazarin (Pvt) Ltd

  • Sri Lanka

  • Junior Software Engineer

    • Apr 2011 - Sep 2011
    • Sri Lanka

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