Hasitha Liyanage

CEO

Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka23 yrs experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led development of high-frequency trading systems across multiple regions.
  • Grew engineering teams from seed to series B funding.
  • Oversaw significant e-commerce platform launches for Fortune-100 companies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with extensive experience in high-performance systems and engineering leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementProduct EngineeringProduct ArchitectureProject ManagementSoftware ArchitectureWeb DevelopmentTechnology StrategySoftware Development

Other Skills

Agile ProcessTeam LeadershipR&DJavaScriptNode.jsReact.jsTrainingTechnical RecruitingTechnical WritingDistributed SystemsHigh Performance ComputingHigh Frequency TradingProcess ImprovementPerlUnix

About

Tech executive / software architect with nearly 25 years of experience in developing, designing and managing a wide range of production systems and teams, from high frequency trading systems for financial markets in the US, Europe and Hong Kong, to regulatory compliance systems for the Philippines government/ILO, mission critical e-commerce platforms for Fortune-100 corporations and prop-tech in Australia. - Lead developer of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Central Gateway (2012 - 2013) - Led the team that developed Sysco's new e-commerce experience (Sysco Shop), through which a significant fraction of their $60B/yr revenue runs (2019) - Designed and developed the London Stock Exchange Group's first post trade risk management system from the ground up (2009) - Led :Different Technologies' engineering team globally through series A and B funding rounds (2020 - 2021) - Led the team that developed the Labor Law Compliance System of the Philippines (manages labor compliance for a labor force of approx. 40 million) (2014 - 2015) - Member of LSEG Technologies' core Matching Engine developer team (circa 2007 - 2009) - Rewrote LSEG's Smart Order Router core to achieve 10µs latency (2011) - Over 10 years of hands-on software engineering experience in 6 different languages/technology stacks: C/C++, Java, JavaScript, PHP and Python. - 10 years of engineering management experience, managing teams of 50-100 software engineers, QAs, PMs, BAs and DevOps - 8 years of experience in senior leadership - Training over 300 engineers and conducting nearly 1000 interviews throughout career - Onsite experience: New York, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Austin, Houston, Sydney

Experience

23 yrs
Total Experience
3 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 6 mos
Current Experience

Eight25media

Consulting CTO

Jan 2024Dec 2024 · 11 mos

Liquid labs

Co-Founder and CTO

Nov 2023Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

Cashless technologies

Consulting CTO

Oct 2023Jul 2024 · 9 mos · Sri Lanka · Remote

:different

2 roles

Chief Technology Officer

Promoted

Feb 2023Nov 2023 · 9 mos

Vice President of Engineering

Feb 2020Feb 2023 · 3 yrs

  • Leading all :Different engineering staff globally.
  • Grew the team from 12 to 60+ engineers, from seed stage to series B funding.
  • Developed an evidence-based agile process, a collaborative engineering playbook, and an effective engineering culture, increasing average team delivery speed by over 50%.
  • Managing all product engineering teams globally (Sydney, Colombo).
  • Direct involvement in code and architecture, in collaboration with the CTO.
  • Member of the company executive leadership team, contributing to strategic direction
Engineering ManagementAgile ProcessTeam LeadershipProduct Engineering

Sysco labs sri lanka

4 roles

Vice President - Engineering

Promoted

Aug 2018Feb 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Leading engineering for Sysco LABS' Customer Experience (CX) organization, tasked with delivering customer facing software, leading a team of 60+ engineers. Responsible for product architecture, technology strategy, engineering standards, R&D, training & skills development. Oversaw go-live of Sysco's new web-based e-commerce experience (Sysco Shop) and version 2 of Sysco's delivery fleet tracker (Sysco Delivery).
Engineering ManagementProduct ArchitectureTechnology StrategyR&D

Senior Director, Technology and Architecture

Aug 2017Aug 2018 · 1 yr

  • Leading engineering for SyscoLABS' CAKE POS product, leading a team of 80+ engineers, QA and BA. Responsible for: product architecture, technology strategy, training & skills development, project management, R&D and engineering standards & processes. Oversaw the scaling and stabilization of the product for 2500+ customers, including the adoption of microservices.
Product ArchitectureTechnology StrategyProject Management

Director, Technology and Architecture

Promoted

Aug 2016Aug 2017 · 1 yr

  • Head of engineering & delivery for CAKE's flagship product (CAKE POS), leading a team of 80+ engineers, QA, BA and PMs. Responsible for: product architecture, technology strategy, training & skills development, project management, R&D and engineering standards & processes.
Product ArchitectureTechnology StrategyProject Management

Software Architect

Mar 2016Aug 2016 · 5 mos

  • Led the re-architecture and go-live of the CAKE POS client-side application.
Software Architecture

Sri lanka technological campus

Guest Lecturer

Jul 2015Dec 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos · Colombo

  • Delivered a series of lectures and practical workshops on modern web based application development using JavaScript (Node.js and React.js)
Web DevelopmentJavaScriptNode.jsReact.js

Thinkcube systems

Interim CTO / Consultant, Technology Leadership

May 2015Feb 2016 · 9 mos · Colombo

  • Formulation of corporate technology strategy
  • Product architecture
  • Generating and improving product designs with the business team
  • Training, recruitment and supervision of all engineering staff
  • Formulation and continuous improvement of development and quality process
  • R&D into new technology platforms and architectures
Technology StrategyProduct ArchitectureTraining

Infoshare (guarantee) ltd

Chief Software Architect

May 2013Feb 2016 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Infoshare is registered in the United States as a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization, developing software products and solutions for the non-profit and government sectors. Oversaw go-live of the digitization of the Philippines' Labor Department's compliance process (LLCS-MIS). Oversaw the development of human rights case management software and independent election monitoring software.
Software DevelopmentProject Management

Lseg technology

Software Architect

Jan 2011Jan 2013 · 2 yrs

  • Lead developer of the Algorithmic US Treasury Bond trading system for 9Alpha Capital, a New York based hedge fund.
  • Lead developer of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Central Gateway project.
  • Design and development of version 3 of MillenniumIT's Smart Order Router (SOR) core.
Software DevelopmentProject Management

Millenniumit

2 roles

Tech Lead

Promoted

Jan 2007Jan 2011 · 4 yrs

  • Member of the core trading kernel ("Matching Engine") development team.
  • Ground-up design and development of MillenniumIT's first Risk Management product core.

Software Engineer

Jan 2003Jan 2007 · 4 yrs

Education

University of Moratuwa

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 1998Jan 2003

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