Kushan Tantrige
Assistant General Manager Information Technology
Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolKushan Tantrige is an accomplished IT strategist and technology leader with over 17 years of experience and eight years in senior engineering and management roles, currently serving as Assistant General Manager of Information Technology at SMIB Bank in Colombo. He has led major transformations—core banking implementations, infrastructure upgrades, and IT department restructures—while balancing regulatory compliance, cyber security, procurement oversight and people & culture change. Skilled at bridging business and technology, Kushan has driven digital finance, commerce and mobility initiatives across banks and global enterprises, often coordinating multi-vendor, cross-border projects and board-level technology budgeting. He combines hands-on engineering roots in software and systems architecture with MBA-level program management, and a certified Master in Digital Transformation, enabling pragmatic, data-driven decisions that deliver measurable ROI. An understated strength is his track record of institutionalizing security and governance practices (VAPT, code reviews, data governance) into fast-moving product roadmaps, ensuring scalability without sacrificing risk controls.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master Digital Transformation, Business/Technology Transformation, Certified, Master Digital Transformation, Business/Technology Transformation, Certified at Linkedin LearningBachelor’s Degree, MIS, 2nd Class Division 1, Bachelor’s Degree, MIS, 2nd Class Division 1 at National University of IrelandMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Project Management, Merit, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Project Management, Merit at Cardiff Metropolitan UniversityMathematics, Mathematics at Nalanda Vidyalaya, Colombo 10
English, Sinhalese
Github Skills (2)
machine-learning3
python2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
KushanTharaka97/DevCourses
May 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:36 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
KushanTharaka97/petsApp
Jun 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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