Calcey Technologies, an innovative software product engineering firm based in San Francisco California and Sri Lanka, moved their Colombo based Innovation Centre into the modern office premises at Trace Expert City. The move in was graced by Secretary to the Ministry of Defence Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Chairman Urban Development Authority (UDA) Nimal Perera, dignitaries from the Sri Lankan Army, UDA, and the Management of Calcey Technologies and its employees.
Calcey Technologies became the second software company to enter the Expert City, which is developed under the guidance of the Ministry of Defence, The Urban Development Authority and the Sri Lankan Army, while being supervised by TRACE. The new Calcey office premises presents a chic work environment with industrial interior. Embracing both its origin—a 100 year old historical warehouse—and modern architecture, the new premises has been renovated and refurbished to create a chic workplace that includes ample space, with open brick architecture giving a totally new industrial ambience to the trade centre earlier used by the British.
Speaking about the launch of its new office premises, Founder and CEO of Calcey, Mangala Karunaratne who has returned to Sri Lanka from the US said, "Founded in 2002 with three employees we have grown to an 80 plus member enterprise innovating in software product engineering. It is in this milieu that I am happy to state that 5000 plus Fortune® 500 employees are using our apps daily and 6 active Fortune® 500 enterprise mobile apps have been developed by our team in Sri Lanka. As a boutique product engineering company, we are happy to venture into Trace Expert City, which will further sync with our growth strategy".
He further added, "We are targeting to expand our markets within the US, UK and Australian regions, and our focus is to complete deployment of an innovative location based marketing solution and a facial recognition solution within the next fiscal year, further strengthening our product portfolio".
The company specializes in a gamut of professional services including; Enterprise Mobile Solutions, Agile Product Engineering Services, Web and Cloud Services and Software Quality Assurance, and offers solutions in USA, Australia and UK geographies. Calcey provides service in key verticals, including; healthcare, software, consumer, advertising, investment, media telecommunications, energy, finance, retail, and fashion. Calcey's notable clientele include Stanford Business School, CISCO Australia, Westfield Retails, Wikimedia and over 21 more exclusive patrons.
The company is also involved with the country’s academia and has formed several working partnershipswith a number of Universities in the island including; University of Moratuwa, SLIIT and APIIT. Through its sustainability arm, Calcey hosted Sri Lanka’s first CoderDojo—a global collaboration of computer programmers to facilitate free and open learning to aspiring young people. CoderDojo training is usually focused on learning programming languages and the Calcey team volunteers to help the future techno talent.
