Premuditha Perera

Head of Engineering at DreamStart Labs
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Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka, LK
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  • English Professional working proficiency
  • Sinhalese Native or bilingual proficiency

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Henrik Esbensen

As the Head of Engineering at DreamStart Labs, Premuditha is responsible for all areas of product development, including technical direction, people management, planning, execution and product delivery. Premuditha has proven to be an exceptional leader who has all the skills, knowledge and talent required by this demanding position. Premuditha is technically curious and has a very impressive technical knowledge, which is both very broad and deep. He ensures that we always use the best and most cost efficient tools throughout the engineering organization. Premuditha’s people skills are truly outstanding, and his communication and team building skills are exceptional. He is incredibly motivating, inspiring and accommodating and has a unique capability of bringing the best out in every team member. The result is highly engaged and very productive teams of engineers who enjoy their jobs while consistently delivering high quality products on schedule. Premuditha’s work ethic, impeccable personal integrity and constructive can-do attitude is an example for everyone to follow. He demonstrates a consistently proactive attitude and always try to predict potential future problems and eliminate them before they become reality. Even in the high-stress scenarios which every organization inevitably encounter, Premuditha’s colleagues can rest assured that he has the situation under control and will find creative solutions.

Wes Wasson

Premuditha is a uniquely talented technology leader. As a developer and architect, his innate curiosity and broad range of experience result in solutions that are both creatively ambitious and grounded in reality. As a leader, he possesses a high EQ that engenders both admiration from his team, and respect from his peers. As a co-worker, his tireless commitment and passion to put the company and customer first are an inspiration. I am grateful to work with Premuditha and feel blessed to have him on our leadership team.

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Credentials

  • Microsoft Certified Professional
    Microsoft
    Jan, 2015
    - Sep, 2024
  • Provincial Education Software Competition for Schools
    Ministry of Education & Microsoft Sri Lanka (Pvt) Limited
    Jan, 2006
    - Sep, 2024

Experience

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Head of Engineering
      • Jan 2020 - Present

      DreamStart Labs is a social impact fintech startup founded in Silicon Valley with the mission of helping people in the developing world achieve their dreams of a better life. • Build, lead, and mentor cross-cultural and cross-functional globally distributed software development teams comprised of 40+ members • Expanded the engineering team in Colombo from 3 to 20+ members over the past 2.5 years • Expanded the product lineup by 6x, from 9K users in 8 countries to 100K users in 20 countries over the past 2.5 years • Designed the architecture of DreamSave Insights (web-based) analytics platform to support large-scale distributed data processing • Designed the architecture of DreamSave mobile backend and rebuilt it from scratch using Event Sourcing, and achieved 25x speed improvement, 70% reduction in network data usage in sync operations, and 40% reduction in Cloud bill • Line management, including recruitment, onboarding, employee development, and performance management Show less

    • Sri Lanka
    • Education
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Visiting Lecturer
      • Oct 2023 - Present
    • Sri Lanka
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Visiting Lecturer - Faculty of Computing
      • Aug 2023 - Present
    • Sri Lanka
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Director Software Engineering
      • Jan 2023 - Present

    • Software Architect
      • Sep 2020 - Jan 2023

    • Associate Software Architect
      • Jan 2019 - Sep 2020

      • Worked on pre-sales, represented Calcey technical leadership in offshore sales meetings, and signed up new clients• Conducted design/code/estimation reviews across 04 project teams of 7 to 12 engineers• Established engineering standards, guidelines, and tools such as wikis to streamline the remote-first work model• Initiated and executed 5+ organization-wide training programs to improve the adaptability of new joiners• Designed the architecture, worked as an individual contributor and led a 5 member team to build an offline-capable, mobile-based data collection solution, which is currently used across multiple countries in Africa• Presented at BreakIT SaaS Summit ‘19 in Stockholm, Sweden, on ‘imSMART’ - a Gartner recognized SaaS product built at Calcey, which is currently used by 40+ global giants such as Genentech, Carl Zeiss, Zimmer, etc. Show less

    • Tech Lead
      • Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

      • Led a 5 member team and collaborated with engineers in Australia to build the MyBudget Fintech platform• Expanded the project team, Nelly, from 3 to 7 members by taking ownership of iOS and Android mobile apps• Assisted in recruitment by interviewing and selecting software engineers from career fairs and mentored them

    • Associate Tech Lead
      • Dec 2016 - Dec 2017

      • Represented Calcey's technical leadership and competencies to enter the Nordic market, and signed up the first Nordic client Nelly, one of the largest online fashion retailers• Collaborated with the onsite engineers and led the initial 3 member team in Colombo for project Nelly• Collaborated with PayPal internal engineers, worked as an individual contributor, and led a 2-pizza team in Colombo to build and deliver a custom BI Dashboard for PayPal C-Level management within 7 weeks• Worked as an individual contributor to rebuild the eLearning Platform of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Show less

    • Senior Software Engineer
      • Jan 2016 - Dec 2016

    • Software Engineer
      • Jan 2014 - Jan 2016

    • Sri Lanka
    • Education Administration Programs
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Visiting Lecturer - School of Computing
      • Mar 2016 - Dec 2021

Education

  • University of Moratuwa
    Master of Science - MS, Computer Science
    2018 -
  • Staffordshire University
    Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computing
    2012 - 2013
  • Ananda College
    Business/Managerial Economics

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