Summary
Aslam Najeebdeen is a product-focused technology leader and entrepreneur with 16 years building user-centric web products and scaling engineering teams across startups and global media brands. Currently Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at The Smartestway, he applies design thinking and systems-level product strategy to transform education and create scalable learning experiences. He founded FrontCube, delivering digital growth for clients including a niche dental marketing service, and has held engineering and product roles that supported companies like Al Jazeera, Microsoft partners, SaaStr, and TRT World. A hands-on former front-end lead and CTO, he blends deep software engineering chops with UX architecture to move from prototype to product-market fit. Based in Colombo, he pairs a practical startup grind with a rare focus on learner outcomes, often translating complex pedagogy into simple, usable product flows.
16 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Information Technology Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Information Technology Software Engineering at SLIIT
Tamil, Sinhalese, English