Software Engineer Ashan Dhananjaya – in his Innovation Session talk – shares his experience of working in a startup for two years and gives an insight into the valuable lessons learnt though the failures encountered while providing useful pointers on what to do to avoid such hurdles. Watch the full video below;
Our operations engineering team handles the development of tools such as Pulse Assist, to help our support teams perform to their maximum potential. They’re working on some cool new features such as being able to analyse information from support calls and past issues, making smarter suggestions as to the potential causes of problems, and providing
In this Innovation Session, Priyath Gregory and Sandaruwan Nanayakkara from Sysco LABS deconstructs bitcoins and blockchain technology in order to investigate and explore the two ideas as independent entities. They start the session by walking the audience through the different systems – from centralized to distributed to the decentralized peer system that is blockchain. Then they dive deeper
In this session, Vice President – Engineering at Sysco LABS, Hiranya Samarasekera provides valuable insights about decision making, leadership and managing oneself. In ‘Smart Decision Making’, he covers common traps which include the sunk cost fallacy; and estimating and forecasting traps such as the recall-ability bias, before moving on to big decision making, and how
Who is a full stack Quality Engineer? The term “full stack” is a widely-heard term, mostly associated with Software Engineering, but rarely in conjunction with Quality Engineering. So, what exactly is it, and why is it important? To understand this, let’s look at what traditional QA practice is. There are several areas and types
There is no argument that technology has changed our lives enormously over the last half century. It is also true that the pace of that change has accelerated over every decade in the same time frame. We should fully expect this change and acceleration to continue to happen in the future. As a business leader
Why Impromptu Speech? People always come across situations where they need to be able to deliver an impromptu speech with little or no advance notice. It can be a quick demo of a product to your clients, or a project status update to the upper management. Although these are ad-hoc situations require you to deliver
In this session, Dilhan Manawadu, Director – Quality Engineering and Process at Sysco LABS explores the idea of leadership and the attributes that make a true leader.
The world around us is a funny little place. At a glance, what’s happening around you might seem quite normal, but take a closer look, and you will notice that we actually live quite a chaotic life. Everything changes – just look at technology. A decade ago, the idea of owning a smart phone would
Dilhan Manawadu, Director – Quality Engineering and Process at CAKE LABS, speaks on the importance of Agile Testing at the Software Quality Engineering Awareness Program organized by SLASSCOM. The session was mainly targeted towards University lecturers, to create awareness on the importance of Quality Engineering in University curriculum’s.
Serverless Engineering, the methodology in which you run your applications without worrying about the management of your infrastructure or servers. But is it for everyone? Danula Eranjith, one of our Software Engineers speaks about the pros and cons of going serverless.
CAKE LABS Managing Director SL, and SVP Engineering, Shanil Fernando was a guest speaker at the recently held YouthSpark event, organized by Microsoft in partnership with Sarvodaya-Fusion. He shared his insights about trends in the tech industry and how successful companies are leveraging and spearheading this change. The event’s main objective is to provide young
Sysco Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer Mr Wayne Shurts makes first visit to Colombo In the age of information, the integration of new technologies into facets of daily life continues at a staggering pace. As a multinational corporation that has marketed and distributed food products to a vast clientele across food service and
