I'm Chathuranga Lakmal.
Founder & CEO, Athena Xtreme Solutions (Pvt) Ltd
Gampaha District, Western Province, Sri Lanka
I'm the Founder & CEO of Athena Xtreme Solutions (Pvt) Ltd, a Sri Lanka-based software company building practical, scalable digital systems for businesses — SaaS platforms, ERP and POS systems, web and mobile apps, and business automation.
Before software, I spent 12+ years in manufacturing and industrial engineering at Hirdaramani, MAS Holdings and Classic Fashion (Jordan) — line balancing, SMV analysis, productivity and process optimisation. That's why I look at software from the operations floor, not just the code.
My flagship, AthenaX Elite Serve, runs restaurants, bars and hotels on one database: POS with kitchen and bar displays, bar control by the peg, inventory and recipe costing, hotel PMS, HR and payroll — built for LKR, LankaQR, Sinhala receipts and WhatsApp.
5
SaaS live in production
19
Products built & building
2,340+
Commits in 2026
12+
Years in industrial engineering
One person, every layer
No agency layers and no hand-offs — the person who talks to your team is the person who writes the schema and ships the fix.
Product & design
Discovery with operators, flows, UI systems.
Architecture
Schemas, tenancy, real-time and sync design.
Engineering
Full-stack TypeScript, web, mobile and AI.
Operations
Deploys, monitoring, backups and customer support.
From the factory floor to SaaS
12+ years optimising production lines in apparel manufacturing — now applied to software that runs real operations.
Founder & CEO
May 2025 – Present
Athena Xtreme Solutions (Pvt) Ltd · Sri Lanka
Building AthenaX Elite Serve and a portfolio of multi-tenant SaaS, ERP and POS products for Sri Lankan and international businesses.
Software Engineer
Aug 2022 – Present
Self-employed · Sri Lanka
Full-stack web, SaaS, ERP and POS development for clients locally and through Fiverr.
Senior Executive Industrial Engineer
Jan 2018 – Oct 2022
Classic Fashion Apparel Industry Ltd. Co. · Jordan
Industrial engineering, production efficiency and process optimisation in large-scale apparel manufacturing.
Executive Industrial Engineering (HOD)
Jan 2017 – Dec 2017
MAS Holdings · Sri Lanka
Led industrial engineering: line balancing, SMV analysis, manpower planning and manufacturing process optimisation.
Work Study & Industrial Engineer
Aug 2012 – Dec 2016
Hirdaramani Group · Sri Lanka
Work study, production efficiency improvement, line balancing and productivity improvement in apparel production.
Education
Bachelor's Engineering Degree — Full-Stack Software Engineering
IIC University of Technology, Cambodia · 2021 – 2026
BSc (Hons) in Software Engineering — Full-Stack Software Engineering
Java Institute for Advanced Technology · 2022
English
King's College London · 2021
Certifications & awards
- AWS AI & ML Scholars 2026 — Challenge Completion
- AWS Scholars Program — Build Your First AI Productivity App
- AWS Scholars Program — Analyze Data using AI with PartyRock
- Project Completion Badge — AI Support Agent
- Code & Conquer Hackathon by SLASSCOM
Top skills
How I build products
Start on the shop floor
Every product begins with operators — cashiers, bartenders, mechanics, teachers — not a feature list.
Multi-tenant from day one
Tenancy boundaries, RBAC and audit trails are designed before the first screen, never bolted on later.
Money flows are sacred
Shifts, cash-ups, installments and invoices are reconciled, audited and tested before anything else ships.
Local price, global standard
Priced for Sri Lankan businesses, with Sinhala-first UI and local payments — engineered like global SaaS.
2026, month by month
Taken straight from each product's repository history.
July 2026
June 2026
May 2026
Follow the build in public
I share launches, lessons and product updates on LinkedIn. Connect there, or reach out directly.