Kumudu Bandarage — CTO
Overall: 20 years of demonstrated experience in Development, Quality Engineering and Project Management with exceptional leadership, process improvement, delivery and managerial skills. Using Amazon Q AIDLC (AI driven development life cycle) platform for planning, predicting & monitoring quality product delivery on time while managing developer efficiency & productivity Over 11 years of experience in Agile & traditional project management disciplines and Scrum/Kanban Pearson: Delivered the top critical Janus (Mastering) project in Pearson in moving the second largest revenue generating (400M USD per annum) Pearson platform to AWS Cloud. Managed the Mastering BAU team consisting 9 teams (8 SL/1US) consisting 60+ members with a dedicated Core of 2 DEV Directors, 2 DEV Managers, 2 QE Managers, 5 Product Team and Program Management. Spearheaded Pearson Agile Training team and TAMI Initiative (Team Agile Maturity Index) which are two of major PMO goals for each year. E25: Owning complex project deliveries run across multiple project teams (Minimum project 250,000 USD) plus platinum client maintenance and new feature delivery. Overlooking & helping the company to align on agile with focused training while further streamlining & improving the overall delivery process. Amused: Responsible for overall delivery. Identifying and implementing process BPs, streamlining and enhancing proper work conduct to ensure customer satisfaction with expected quality. Reporting, KPIs plus tracking anomalies for improvement. (Revenue 2M-4M USD monthly) Enabling, coaching & training Scrum Masters, Product Owners, BA and Teams for agile/scrum practices.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned Agile Project Manager with expertise in EdTech and AI-driven development.
Location: Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
Experience: 20 yrs 4 mos
Skills
- It Project & Program Management
- Coaching
- Agile Leadership
- Agile Project Management
- Project Management
- Project Delivery
Career Highlights
- 20 years of experience in Development and Project Management.
- Led critical projects transitioning Pearson to AWS Cloud.
- Expert in Agile methodologies and coaching teams.
Work Experience
Homey
Head of Technology & Delivery (0 mo)
BCAS Campus
Visiting Lecturer (6 mos)
Scrum Alliance
Committee Lead Regional Scrum Gathering Sri Lanka (5 mos)
Amused Group
Delivery Manager (2 yrs 6 mos)
Delivery Lead (6 mos)
Business Agility Tune Up (Pvt) Ltd.
External Consultant (3 yrs 9 mos)
Scrum Alliance
Committee Lead Regional Scrum Gathering Sri Lanka (7 mos)
EIGHT25MEDIA
Senior Project Manager (1 yr 1 mo)
Business Agility Fellowship International - BAFI
Chief Community Growth Officer (4 yrs 2 mos)
Pearson
Project Manager | Scrum Master (1 yr 1 mo)
Associate Project Manager | Scrum Master (2 yrs 4 mos)
Senior Team Lead - PMO (1 yr)
Senior Lead - Software Quality Engineering (1 yr 11 mos)
Quality Assurance Lead (1 yr 11 mos)
Quality Engineering Manager for CDDAR (2 yrs)
Associate Quality Assurance Lead (1 yr 6 mos)
Senior QA Engineer (1 yr 7 mos)
Virtusa
Software QA Engineer (3 yrs 8 mos)
IFS
Trainee Software Engineer (1 yr 3 mos)
Education
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at Canterbury Christ Church University
BS.c (Hons) at The Manchester Metropolitan University
Ordinary Level Studies at Ananda College