After a successful 9-week work trip to the UK in the latter part of 2019, Sameera Thilakasiri returned in March 2020, along with colleague Maduranga Rathnamalala, to continue working with Jacob Bailey for Decipher Innovation, a joint venture with Mitra, delivering a Complete Destination Marketing Digital Solution. Sameera’s skills in PHP Lavarel combined with his experience working offshore, made him the perfect candidate for this high-profile role.

When I joined Mitra 5 years ago as a Business Analyst (BA), most of my work was with entrepreneurs. Businesspeople who had brilliant ideas, and some with firm views on what they didn’t want, but often not what they did. With our entrepreneurs, BAs were required to do more than just requirements gathering. We had to share the vision, design the end-to-end process, carry out workshops and build prototypes. We gathered feedback and iterated, bringing ideas to life, and to the marketplace.