Lahiru Cooray
Portfolio Lead - Fullstack Engineering at Novigi
Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolLahiru Cooray is a seasoned full-stack engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling engineering teams and delivery practices, currently serving as Portfolio Lead and Head of Country for Novigi in Colombo. He joined Novigi as the first Sri Lanka team member and has progressed through technical and operational roles—shaping integration, managed services, and technical services while maintaining a strong focus on data, automation and cloud-native architectures. Lahiru blends hands-on engineering experience from middleware and identity platforms with strategic leadership, driving quality, reliable production support and cross-border operations. He emphasizes a flat, collaborative culture that empowers engineers to take ownership and innovate, which has been key to delivering complex projects across superannuation and aged-care domains. Holding an MBA in Project Management and a BSc in MIS, he pairs business acumen with technical depth to align engineering efforts with organizational strategy. A pragmatic problem-solver, Lahiru’s background in both 24/7 managed services and product-led development gives him uncommon expertise in bridging product reliability and operational excellence.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Project Management, Merit, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Project Management, Merit at Cardiff Metropolitan UniversityBSc in MIS, Second Class, Division 1, BSc in MIS, Second Class, Division 1 at University College DublinWesley College
English, Sinhalese
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Github Skills (17)
app-manager10
idp10
pcf10
spid10
identity9
wso29
identity-provider9
identity-management8
mbaas8
resultset6
nodejs6
datagridview6
sql6
jdbc6
java6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lahiru823/component-ids
Jan 2017 - Jun 2018
components related to Identity server .
Contributions:54 pushes in 1 year 5 months
identity-managementidentityidentity-serveridentity-provider
lahiru823/product-app-manager
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
app-managerpublisher
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