Microimage opens new R&D centre in Jaffna

Microimage Founder/CEO Harsha Purasinghe lighting the traditional oil lamp, Microimage Head of Broadcast Technology Duxion Murugesu and University of Jaffna Faculty of Computer Science Dr. Thabotharan Kathiravelu opening the Jaffna office 

Microimage, one of the leading international enterprise software solutions companies 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 and 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 four engineers travelling from Colombo to work on R&D activities collaboratively with their Jaffna counterparts.

Microimage Founder/CEO Harsha Purasinghe stated, “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. We intend to offer more opportunities to highly passionate top talent from peninsula as we further grow our operations in the future. Also this move will pave the way for us to establish strong relationships with academic institutions in northern peninsula towards knowledge sharing on a range of modern technologies and to provide internship opportunities for top young talent.”

Microimage is a leader in providing software solutions in the areas of Human Capital Management, Broadcast/Media & Digital convergence. Microimage’s latest HCM Cloud is considered one of the top pure play cloud digital HR solutions available in the global market today. The product since public launch has gained tremendous growth both locally and internationally. The latest broadcast product release from Microimage Mobile Media subsidiary mStudio 3 enables broadcasters and media entertainment personalities to deliver a complete digital audio/video experience combining strong social sharing capabilities with mobile apps extending the reach of engagement. 

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. Today, our engineers from Jaffna peninsula can contribute towards building cutting edge products and solutions while working from home soil. Also this move will enable us to tap into other brightest minds from north who are keen to work for an international software company.”

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 in his speech stated, “When we were undergraduate students we always dreamt about having software companies operating in Jaffna, and today it has become a reality. We will work towards satisfying your needs and shall be producing good graduates. It is perfect timing as we intend to start six months internships for the first time for our students and Microimage will be a potential partner for us to place these undergraduate students.” 

The faculty members were absolutely thrilled to see this timely move of Microimage and stated it is the second leading software company to establish its own presence in the northern peninsula. 

Micro image’s purpose is to ‘Continuously innovate in its chosen domains to build products and services which positively impacts the world’. The company is poised to pursue this by empowering and fostering a unique team of minds to develop best in class Enterprise Software solutions, leveraging futuristic technology.