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Sanjeewa Alwis

Director
Pearson

Having been recognized as a leader in Digital Transformation, Software Engineering, IT infrastructure Management & IT operations, Social Media Expert, DevOps Practitioner and technological evangelist, Sanjeewa's experience focus is in managing various IT engineering teams in dynamic, mission critical and global environments.

He is also the first AWS Certified Solution Architect in Sri Lanka.

Vineeth Garusinghe

Chief  Operating Officer
OREL IT

Vineeth is a well-qualified professional, having years of experience in the field of project coordination and project management. After graduating from the Sri Lanka Institute of Information technology with a BSc. Degree in Management Information Systems, he joined the Sri Lankan IT forefront OREL IT in the year 2015. During his last tenure as the group manger operations for OREL IT, Vineeth had deployed his professional responsibilities in an exceptional manner and thereby he is now appointed as the Chief Operations Officer for OREL IT.

Sisira Kumara

Head of Quality Assurance
LSEG

Sisira Kumara is a Software Quality Assurance and Testing professional with over 20 years industry experience. Sisira currently heads the 100+ member QA team of London Stock Exchange Group's Market Services Technology Division, which is responsible for building and testing group’s trading and clearing systems.

He is also the president of SLSTB which is a member board of ISTQB, which has helped more than 1500 Sri Lankan software testing professionals to gain professional testing certifications.

Sisira brings a unique perspective gained from his diverse experiences which he started off as an IT trainer and Systems engineer. He has gained his software testing exposure at Virtusa in its early days and has grown to become a software testing leader in IT services industry. Sisira has gained his product incubation and startup exposure from Monvia and early days of Sysco Labs.

Kelum Thenuwara

Head of Software Development
VitalHub Innovations Lab

Kelum is a seasoned Software Engineering Lead with 16+ years of industrial experience in designing, developing, and managing a wide range of production systems and teams, from highly scalable ERP systems for European markets, to Health Care and Human Services Systems for North American and UK clients.