Senior Engineering Manager with 15+ years in enterprise HR and ERP software, leading multi-team R&D organisations that deliver scalable, customer-centric SaaS products. Strategic leadership across Technology, Delivery, and People with expertise in enterprise architecture, AI strategy, product roadmaps, cross-functional collaboration, and talent development.
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Snr Engineering Manager - Strategic AI
PageUp Ltd
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  • Lead the Strategic AI Tribe delivering AI products for talent management including recruiter co-pilot (Paige Bot), candidate-job skill matching, and resume parsing from prototype to production across multiple squads on AWS Bedrock.

  • Partner with CTO, SVP Engineering, and Product Owners to own product roadmaps, aligning cross-functional R&D and Product teams to deliver customer-centric solutions for enterprise clients.

  • Manage and develop engineering managers across distributed teams, driving talent growth through hiring, performance management, and mentorship programs.

  • Architect the AI Feature Gateway, a centralised platform for prompt management, evaluation, and multi-region deployment that enables self-service AI configuration and reduces prompt change cycles from days to minutes.

  • Drive ISO 42001 compliance and establish AI evaluation frameworks for consistency testing, model comparison, and bias auditing to ensure responsible, high-quality product releases.

  • Manage AI infrastructure spend across AWS Bedrock deployments, evaluating trade-offs between self-hosted and API-based models to optimise cost efficiency and resource allocation.

  • Champion engineering excellence through AI-SDLC process adoption, capability uplift workshops, and tooling initiatives including ADR-driven skill matching pipelines using industry taxonomies (ESCO/O*NET).

R&D Leadership
AI/AWS Bedrock
Product Delivery
AI Governance
Process Excellence
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Engineering Team Lead
PageUp Ltd
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  • Plan, execute and deliver $50m revenue generating SaaS product (PageUp Recruitment System) leading a distributed engineering team.

  • Developed strategic plan to modernize two-decades-old monolithic application, ensuring successful project initiation with security and scalability focus.

  • Implemented agile practices to ensure efficient delivery and enhanced product quality while mentoring leads and engineers in remote-first environment.

Leadership
Remote Teams
Coaching
Agile
OKR
AWS
.NET
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Development Team Lead
Carsales.com.au Ltd
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Senior Software Engineer
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  • Delivered real-time market intelligence platform (Live Market) leading cross-functional team, providing competitive insights to thousands of car dealers across Australia.

  • Architected and executed legacy-to-microservices migration, establishing scalable cloud infrastructure and modern development practices.

  • Built engineering culture of quality through DevOps integration and automated testing frameworks, improving deployment reliability and team velocity.

Leadership
Cross-functional
Mentoring
Agile
AWS
.NET
Angular
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Senior Software Engineer
FLIP Group Pvt Ltd
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  • Develop, Design and Architect a logistic management systems.

.NET
Angular
Azure
OpenID
Identity Server
Microservices
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Senior Software Engineer
IFS & RnD Pvt Ltd, LK
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Software Engineer
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  • Led ERP implementation teams for enterprise clients (Wingroup, Maersk), delivering end-to-end solutions across finance, supply chain, and HR modules.

  • Built integrations between ERP modules and external systems, driving cross-functional delivery across client-facing and technical teams.

.NET
Integration
PLSQL
Java
Azure
Agile
Academics
BSc Computer Systems
Curtin University, AU
1st Class, GPA 3.68
BSc (Hons) IT
SLIIT, LK
1st Class, GPA 3.59
BSc Physics & Statistics
University of Colombo, LK
Management Accounting
CIMA, UK
Cisco Certified Network Associate
Reference
Will be provided on request.