Hiranya Samarasekera
Expert Consultant (Enterprise Architecture) at Equator Venture Partners
Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolHiranya Samarasekera is an expert consultant and seasoned technology executive with over 16 years of experience leading enterprise architecture, CTO/CDO-level strategy, and national digital transformation initiatives. He bridges commercial product engineering—building large-scale, customer-facing internet services—with GovTech expertise in Digital Public Infrastructure and citizen-facing platforms. As Principal Advisor to the Ministry of Technology and current Expert Consultant at GovTech Sri Lanka, he shapes national digital architecture while also serving as CTO of a fintech startup and managing agricultural operations, showing an unusual blend of policy, startup and on-the-ground business leadership. He has a strong academic background in public policy and business (MA in Public Policy, MBA) paired with deep technical roots from early web development to enterprise R&D. Known for turning complex, multi-stakeholder problems into pragmatic, scalable solutions, he combines strategic vision with hands-on delivery across public and private sectors.
16 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, International Business, Economics, Management, Finance & Accounting, MBA, International Business, Economics, Management, Finance & Accounting at Edith Cowan UniversityMaster of Arts in Public Policy, Economic Policy, Reforms and Governance, Master of Arts in Public Policy, Economic Policy, Reforms and Governance at O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU)
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Github Skills (28)
currency10
sec9
financial-data9
perl9
finance9
cryptocurrency8
go6
liteide6
android4
flutter4
backend4
firebase4
react-native3
nodejs3
couchdb2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hiranya/gocouchlib
Jan 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:29 commits, 32 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 6 months
golangcouchdbdatabasecouchdb-client
mot-srilanka/srilanka-holidays-calendar
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 17 commits, 2 PRs in 11 months
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