Summary
Anuja Herath is a technology entrepreneur and CEO with 11 years’ experience building digital transformation and AI-driven products for retail, finance, and education from Colombo, Sri Lanka. As founder of Konekt, he combines hands-on product engineering with strategic leadership to deliver meticulous, customer-focused solutions ranging from small software engagements to large-scale projects. His background in performance engineering and early career roles at 99x and WSO2 give him a practical appreciation for scalable, high-performance systems. Anuja also teaches social media analytics at ICBS, mentoring students on web scraping, sentiment analysis, and topic modeling—bringing academic rigor to applied data science. Known for blending technical depth with entrepreneurial grit, he actively shapes Sri Lanka’s IT sector while keeping product innovation at the company’s core.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
CCNA, CCNA at Cisco Networking Academy
Bachelor's Degree, IT, 1st Class, Bachelor's Degree, IT, 1st Class at SLIIT
Maliyadeva College
Sinhala, English