Dilan Jayawardane

Dilan Jayawardane is a Sri Lankan engineer who co-founded Scoopler based in the United States.

Dilan Jayawardane
Born
Sri Lanka
NationalitySri Lankan
EducationNalanda College Colombo, University of Moratuwa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
OccupationEngineer
EmployerGoogle
Known forCo-founder of Scoopler

Early life

Jayawardane having received his education from Nalanda College, Colombo, gained admission to enter Moratuwa University and later won a MIT scholarship entering the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002.[1] There he studied engineering and science, graduating with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer science in 2006.[2]

Later life

After graduation Jayawardane joined Oracle Corporation in San Francisco Californica[3] as an engineer in Relational database management system (RDMBS) research team. He later quit Oracle and moved to United Kingdom and with one of his University of Oxford graduate colleagues started up their own company called Scoopler Inc,[4][5] and started developing a search engine. In 2008 he was chosen to participate in a seed-funding program by Y Combinator.[6][7] In 2009 they invented Scoopler, a search engine that redefined internet searches worldwide. In 2011 Scoopler was acquired by Google and Jayawardane joined Google, working on its Google X project, as a project manager.[8] He was also a key developer for Google's Google+ social network and Space elevator project.

References
  1. "Lankan scientist to build quantified self device". Daily News. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  2. "Dilan Jayawardane Member of Sri Lanka Team". Archived from the original on 2014-06-06. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
  3. "Dilan Jayawardane". Archived from the original on 2014-06-06. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
  4. "Dilan Jayawardane". Archived from the original on 2014-06-06. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
  5. Dilan Jayawardane Co-Founder Scoopler Inc
  6. "Young Lankan entrepreneur sells his US-based IT company to Google 'Scoopler' was a threat and that's why they bought me out". The Island. 29 June 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  7. Search Goes Real-Time With Scoopler. Twitter Dominates Results
  8. "Thoughts of a quantified self, Google and more…". Sunday Times. 7 July 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
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