About Thinkcube

The Company

Every SME has a few computers and are increasingly acquiring low cost broadband connectivity. With the advent of wireless technologies, most of those SMEs are also able to set up networks with file and printer sharing. Yet when it comes to productivity tools such as email, chat, calendering and contact management, there is a huge barrier to acquiring and deploying such technologies. Collaboration technologies tend to be very expensive with high per user licensing costs and harder to configure, deploy and manage for ordinary users.

THINKCube Systems Pvt. Ltd. was founded in 2006 to develop a Collaboration Server product targeted at Small, Medium Enterprises (SME) by leveraging on existing Open Source Technologies. It was Co-founded by Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, Mr. Buddhika Siddhisena and Mr. Lakmal Warusawithana whom with their wealth of experience in the IT industry saw the need for an inexpensive, easy to manage Collaboration platform. THINKCube Collaboration is designed primarily for the non technical user who wants to go about setting up his or her company.

THINKCube launched its Collaboration product and has it was successfully deployed in few locations. THINKCube provides IT consultancy services in related Open Source Technologies.

Our Vision

Make state-of-the-art technology affordable and accessible by making it

  • Usable
  • Secure
  • Scalable
  • Simple

Founders

Sanjiva Weerawarana, Director Founder/Chairman/CEO of WSO2; OSI Board Member / ASF Member; Founder/Director Lanka Software Foundation

Sanjiva Co-founded THINKCube after realizing the potential for an easy to use collaboration server for Small Medium Businesses. He has provided the vision for the organization and is the architect of our unique business offering. Sanjiva is also the Founder & CEO of WSO2, an organization developing the next generation Web Services Platform. Prior to his involvement with THINKCube and WSO2, Sanjiva worked for IBM research for 7 years where he was one of the founders of the web services platform. He has co-authored many web services specifications including WSDL, BPEL4WS, WS-Addressing,

WS-RF and WS- Eventing.

As a key driver of Web services technical strategies and coordinator of overall web services architecture at IBM, Sanjiva was elected to the IBM academy of Technology in 2003. Sanjiva’s other affiliations include the W3C Web Services Description Working Group where he is the co-editor of the specification, Open source initiative (OSI) for his role in promoting open source participation in developing countries and the Apache Software foundation in recognition for his work on Apache Jakarta BSF and Apache Xalan.

Working out of Sri Lanka in the last 4 years, Sanjiva founded the Lanka Software Foundation, a non-profit foundation formed to promote open source development by Sri Lankan developers.

In the meantime Sanjiva teaches and guides student projects part-time in the Computer Science & Engineering department of the University of Moratuwa. He is also a member of the academic advisory board of the University Of Colombo School Of Computing and of the Faculty of the IT of the University of Moratuwa.

Sanjiva spent 3 years at Purdue University as visiting faculty, where he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1994.

Buddhika (Bud) Siddhisena, Director & CTO

Buddhika provides technical guidance and direction to leverage in existing proven technologies such as Open Source Software, Linux and Virtualizaion.

Buddhika has over 13 years of experience in IT, mainly in the areas of Free & Open Source, E-Commerce and other Networking Technologies.

Prior to joining THINKcube, Buddhika was working as a Technical Consultant at the R&D Lab of Virtusa, a leading global software development organization. During that time he was an influential figure in advocating the use of FOSS by engaging in several POC studies and Business Pursuits.

Prior to joining Virtusa, Buddhika was a co-founder of ITABS, a company that specialized in Linux based server deployments that came with a custom easy to use server management web interface.

Buddhika has also been involved through the inception of several leading Open Source projects, such as Sahana and Tarprobane GNU/Linux. He has a B.Sc from University of Colombo and is also a member of the British Computer Society (BCS), and a council member of BCS, Sri Lanka Section.

Lakmal Warusawithana, Chief Architect

Lakmal has designed the software framework and works closely with the developers and other Open Source project developers to achieve a smooth integration between the various components.

Lakmal has over 8 years of experience in IT, mainly in the areas of Free & Open Source, Telecommunication and Networking Technologies.

Prior to THINKcube, Lakmal was a Senior Software Enginner of ITABS, a company that specialized in Linux based server deployments that came with a custom easy to use server management interface. He was the Project Leader and Chief Architect of a VOIP and FAX Server product that was deployed at a major local telecom provider. He also played a key role of driving the ITABS R&D Team.

Lakmal has a B.Sc. degree in computer science from the University of Colombo.

The Team

THINKCube has personal with several years of experience working with local and international clients in the areas of Open Source Technologies, Open Source Integration, Open Standards, Telecommunication Solutions and Web Technologies. Some of these experiences include developing rich applications on the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL/PostgreSQL, PHP) platform, Web Services integration, building AJAX powered E-commerce applications, setting up and deploying Linux distributions such as Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or Ubuntu Server, setting up clusters, database replication, high availability (Linux HA) and setting up firewalls to name a few.