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Anuradha Udunuwara

Senior Engineer | Enterprise Business Solutions,
Sri Lanka Telecom PLC
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Sri Lanka Telecom PLC
Sri Lanka

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Anuradha is an expert in the field of Telecom & Technology. He has 15+ years industry experience in strategy, architecture, engineering, design, plan, implementation, maintenance of CSP Networks, along with legacy to NGN migration and solution designing. In his current role as a Senior Engineer at SLT, he is responsible for consulting, advising, architect, designing & planning technical solutions for SME customers.

He is also actively involved in strategy formation of SLTs Digital Transformation and Softwarization (SDN, NFV, Cloud).

Learning and sharing has been his passion. When not in office, you can find him conducting training for other global Telcos in Commonwealth countries, as an expert attached to CTO, UK or teaching the final year Electrical & Electronic undergraduates at University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka as a guest lecturer or conducting trainings for his own staff. He is also an invited speaker at many Telecom and tech conferences, including; Carrier Ethernet APAC, WDM & NG Optical Networking in APAC, EMEA, USA & Africa, LTE Asia, MEF GEN, VNF Management & Orchestration, SDN & OF Asia, BB World Forum, Network Virtualization Asia, Network Virtualization & SDN in Asia and MENA, PTC and TMF DTW. In addition, he works as a Visiting Industrial Fellow at University of Hertfordshire, UK. He has so far presented and published several papers and is also a regular contributor to many international blogs.

Anuradha holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He is also a MEF-SDN/NFV, MEF-NF, ITIL foundation, Senior Member of IEEE and Member of IET, BCS and ISOC. He lives in Kandy with his wife, son and daughter. He prefers reading over watching TV.