Our philosophy on People

We believe in spiritual organizations practice kindness, respect, compassion and harmony which bring the organization with wholeness and freeness. Wholeness and freeness are the most important ingredients of creativity and innovations. Finally, innovations lead to prosperity.

Our team spirit at OLAK is like an ocean where all the great rivers on reaching the ocean lose their former names and identities and are reckoned as the ocean.

Members of the organization need to be focused on their personal development while contributing to the organizational success, where self-discipline is considered as our philosophy and we believe that without discipline inspirational wisdom is like castles in air.

Our leadership having decades of experience in working with “people” strongly believes that there are no bad employees in the organization and employees don’t leave the organization but they leave the “leader”. But we believe there are good times as well as bad times in life and we build our teams to face any situation in their life.

L. SAJITH SAMEERA

MBA IT, CITP, MBCS, MCS(SL), CMA (Aus).

Chief Executive Officer

30 years’ experience in the Information Technology field including 24 years in the Banking / Finance sector and 4 years in Retail, Supermarket, Manufacturing & Distribution business

Sajith is Chartered IT Professional (CITP), Member of British Computer Society (MBCS) and Member of Computer Society of Sri Lanka (MCS). He has completed his Master of Business Administration (MBA – IT) from University of Moratuwa. He has completed BCS Examination, Australian Computer Society (ACS) Examination in Computing and Diploma in Computer Studies from NCC UK. In addition, he has done Institute of Bankers (AIB) Intermediate Examination and Certified Management Accountant (CMA – Australia) examination. Sajith was Executive Council member of Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL) from 2017 to 2019.

He has published a paper on the topic of “Study on the impact of Business Intelligence on Strategic Decision-Making Process of Sri Lankan Commercial Banks” and it was presented at the “8th International Research Conference on Management & Finance (IRCMF 2013) of Faculty of Management & Finance - University of Colombo” on 13th Dec 2013 at Sri Lanka Foundation Institute – Colombo.

Previous Workplaces

  • CIO at Nations Trust Bank (NTB)
  • Group CIO at Cargills Ceylon PLC
  • Head of IT / CIO at Pan Asia Banking Corporation (PABC)
  • Head of IT Systems at Cargills Bank
  • Senior Manager at Hatton National Bank Plc (HNB)

Experiences

Sajith is having 30 years’ experience in the Information Technology field including 24 years in the Banking / Finance sector and 4 years in Retail, Supermarket, Manufacturing & Distribution business. He has gained unique experience in the IT industry. He has involved in developing and Implementing a core banking application (CoBAS) in a local bank (HNB) as well as overseas bank (Bank of Maldives). He has got experience in implementing Greenfield Banking solutions at Cargills Bank. He was one of key IT person who architected the Supermarket Banking model at Cargills Bank / Cargills Foodcity. He has gained experiences in different Core Banking models such as Distributed Banking, Centralized Banking, Branch Banking as well as big bang implementations. He is expert in architecting Data Warehousing/ BI Solutions for both banks and retail segment

Sajith is veteran in core banking implementations and has done 4 major implantations in 3 local banks. He has got hands on experience with InfoSys Finacle, GLOBUS/Temenos T24 & POLARIS. He has involved in migrating / Implementing Credit Card system (TSYS PRIME /Online) too.

He has involved in Implementing different systems for Retail, Supermarkets & Manufacturing segment which includes ERP (Oracle JD Edward 9.2 Cloud, Microsoft Navision), Warehouse Management System (WMS), Vegetable / Milk Collection system, Farmer Portal / Farmer App, Supplier Portal, POS Solutions, Sale Force Automation (SFA) etc.

Sajith has got vast experience in Implementing & operating ATM switches (SwitchWare of CSF International, SPARROW, ESP, IST, Interblocks ISwitch). He has a thorough knowledge in Digital Transformations projects as well as Digital Onboarding platforms, Digital Payment Platforms, Open API Banking platforms, IPG platforms etc. He has got vast experience in implementing IT Infrastructure (Data Center, Network, Servers, Firewall) for Banks & Retails sector.

 

E A G EDIRISINGHE

B.Sc. (MIS)

Head of Software Development

Ediri has got more than 25 years of experience in the Software industry, more than 20 years of experience at Hatton National Bank (HNB), the largest private commercial bank in Sri Lanka. He is expert in developing Core Banking applications as well as implementing Banking systems which includes CoBAS, InfoSys Finacle, TEMENOS GLOBUS T24. Ediri has got strong skills in all the areas of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) as well as managing large Software Development teams.

Ediri an expert in the Technology Banking Domain, has involved in multiple banking transformation projects. In addition to Core Banking systems, his profiles include designing and developing of Data Warehouse Solutions as well as Retail banking application systems. He has got a Bachelor of Science degree from National University of Ireland.

RAVEEN SENEVIRATNE

B.Sc, MBA

Business Analyst

Raveen has completed his Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Wolverhampton in UK, and he has got a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka, and a Diploma in Computer Systems Designing from National Institute of Business and Management in Sri Lanka. Further, he is also reading his Master of Law (LLM) specializing in Information Technology and Intellectual property law from the University of Cardiff Metropolitan in UK and also studying for his Attorney-at-Law in Sri Lanka Law College

Raveen has researched industry automation for his bachelor's degree and obtained the highest grade for industry research. Also, he has been researched in areas of Big data, and AI technologies for enterprises whereas his master's research in data-driven Big data application done with the collaboration of Sri Lanka Telecom (PLC) has awarded with distinction pass from the University of Wolverhampton UK. He is a former demonstrator at the Department of Physics, University of Kelaniya and a former graduate trainee at Sri Lanka Telecom (PLC). Moreover, he is a director at the Leo club of Pannipitiya Metro.