Hasitha Liyanage — CEO
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
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with extensive experience in high-performance systems and engineering leadership.
Location: Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
Experience: 23 yrs
Skills
- Engineering Management
- Product Engineering
- Product Architecture
- Project Management
- Software Architecture
- Web Development
- Technology Strategy
- Software Development
Career 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.
Work Experience
EIGHT25MEDIA
Consulting CTO (11 mos)
Liquid Labs
Co-Founder and CTO (2 yrs 6 mos)
Cashless Technologies
Consulting CTO (9 mos)
:Different
Chief Technology Officer (9 mos)
Vice President of Engineering (3 yrs)
Sysco LABS Sri Lanka
Vice President - Engineering (1 yr 6 mos)
Senior Director, Technology and Architecture (1 yr)
Director, Technology and Architecture (1 yr)
Software Architect (5 mos)
Sri Lanka Technological Campus
Guest Lecturer (1 yr 5 mos)
thinkcube systems
Interim CTO / Consultant, Technology Leadership (9 mos)
Infoshare (Guarantee) Ltd
Chief Software Architect (2 yrs 9 mos)
LSEG Technology
Software Architect (2 yrs)
MillenniumIT
Tech Lead (4 yrs)
Software Engineer (4 yrs)
Education
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at University of Moratuwa