Experience
Lead Developer & Digital Manager (IT Project Lead)Oct 2025 – Present
Speedex Group LLC — Dubai, UAE
- Manage 5 concurrent projects across 3 business platforms — Magento 2 (speedextools.com), Shopify (unsfarms.com), WordPress (symbolic.ae) — coordinating 6 departments and vendors against scope, schedule, budget and quality.
- Directed the ERP-to-Magento integration (catalogue, pricing, orders — order-to-cash) through phased delivery, UAT, user training and go-live.
- Directed the 3PL and delivery-partner API integration programme, linking order, shipment and tracking data with logistics providers.
- Led a digital transformation initiative automating cross-departmental workflows with AI tooling, cutting manual processing effort by approximately 90%.
- Plan timelines, milestones and sprints in Jira and Monday.com; report weekly to leadership; own the risk register, change control and post-implementation reviews; oversee high availability, vulnerability assessments and hardening.
Digital Manager & Full-Stack Developer (PM)Sep 2022 – Aug 2025
Drawdeck — Dubai, UAE
- Ran a portfolio of 3 concurrent projects, including two full re-platforming programmes (Magento to Shopify, and to Laravel) — on time, within budget, with zero downtime and full data integrity across 17,000+ SKUs (drawdeck.com, draftframes.com).
- Managed project budgets and negotiated third-party vendor contracts; owned the AWS programme (EC2, RDS, Elasticsearch): capacity planning, cutover, monitoring and post-go-live support.
- Led a multicultural team of developers, designers, QA and marketing specialists; tracked KPIs (uptime, page speed, Core Web Vitals, conversion) with data-driven retrospectives.
Full-Stack Developer / Technical Delivery LeadAug 2021 – Aug 2022
Twire (Pvt) Ltd — Colombo, LK
- Delivered integration and optimisation projects across a high-traffic Magento multi-site estate for Swedish brands (klippdighemma.se, hairgear.se) — requirements, release planning and defect triage in Agile/Scrum teams.
- Built payment and shipping middleware (REST, SOAP, XML-RPC) for Klarna and Uni-Faun; optimised 10+ custom modules for performance, security and reliability.
Technical Co-founder · Lead Developer & E-Commerce ManagerMar 2017 – Jul 2021
Weber Inc (3CONVO) — Kandy, LK
- Owned all technology for the company; built MVPs to raise investment and launched two products: meatshop.lk (multi-vendor meat platform — break-even in 2 years, acquired a main competitor in its first year, received investment offers) and cakes.lk (multi-vendor cake platform, BestWeb.lk 2018 Merit Winner).
- Directed 30+ IT projects in parallel — e-commerce, ERP, dashboards and CMS — owning timelines, budgets and quality; built and led Agile/Scrum teams; managed clients from requirements and estimates to post-project review.
Senior Web Developer (remote contract)Jan 2020 – Aug 2020
Leafcutter — Colombo, LK
- Delivered 4 WordPress projects in parallel while running Weber Inc; mentored junior developers and standardised delivery through Confluence.
Senior PHP Developer (contract)Oct 2016 – Feb 2017
Extreme Web (Pvt) Ltd — Colombo, LK
- Translated business requirements into technical specifications; delivered custom Laravel and WooCommerce applications to scope and schedule.
Software EngineerSep 2014 – Sep 2016
Ezelink Telecom (Emirates Wifi) — Dubai, UAE
- Delivered three Wi-Fi controller and access-point management systems (EZETool, EZEBOD, EZEEYE) for Etisalat projects, including security, backup and redundancy design.
- Built Myanmar SME Link, a B2B platform for Global SME Link; managed hundreds of brand and landing-page websites.
Earlier roles2008 – 2014
Galle & Colombo, LK
- PHP / web developer at Maadya Digital (President's Fund management system; Sampath Bank payment gateway for Magento), Accsys Technologies (EDI system for a Jones New York garment supplier), BHIT, Bountylab International and Aneigung; first web project for RDHS Galle (2008).