Microimage opens R&D centre in Jaffna

Microimage, one of the leading international Enterprise Software solutions company in the country opened its R&D centre in Jaffna recently.

This move was initiated to extend Microimage presence to the Northern Peninsula, enabling existing Microimage engineers hailing from Jaffna to work from their home front and to attract top engineering talent from north of Sri Lanka.

The company since early 2000 attracted some of the brightest minds from Northern peninsula where one such engineer today has grown his career to become the head of a leading product division at Microimage.

With the opening of R&D centre in Jaffna, Microimage now has three operating locations in the Asian region including Colombo and Kuala Lumpur. Jaffna centre, will focus on research and development for all core product lines of Microimage; Human Capital Management, Broadcast, Media and Mobile.

The team of engineers will engage in R&D for a variety of technologies such as cloud computing, mobile, analytics, machine learning to other emerging digital technologies.

The new work space will bring together top engineers hailing from Jaffna under one roof& also engineers working in other offices to collaboratively work on cutting edge technologies to propel Microimage’s flagship products to great heights.

The office located in Palali road close to city centre can house around 25 engineers currently. It also has accommodation facility up to 4 engineers travelling from Colombo to work on R&D activities collaboratively with their Jaffna counterparts.

Harsha Purasinghe, Founder and CEO of Microimage said, “I am absolutely thrilled to see another dream realised with the opening of our Jaffna R&D centre. We already possessed number of top talent from Jaffna working on our products in Colombo office, and now with this opening they can continue to work on cutting edge products with great work/life balance as they are close to home.”

Microimage is a leader in providing software solutions in the areas of Human Capital Management, Broadcast, Media and Digital convergence.

One of the brightest minds hailing from Jaffna who works for more than a decade at Microimage, Head of Broadcast Solutions; Duxion Murugesu said, “I am delighted that we’ve been able to establish R&D presence in my home soil. The time I started my career I had to move to Colombo to find an opportunity due the situation in the north.”

The opening ceremony was graced by senior faculty members of Department of Computer Science at the University of Jaffna and Vavuniya Campus. Dr. Thabotharan Kathiravelu, representing Faculty of Computer Science, University of Jaffna.