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Nationality
  
Sri Lankan

Name
  
Dilan Jayawardane

Occupation
  
Engineer

Role
  
Engineer


Employer
  
Religion
  
Buddhist

Organizations founded
  
Scoopler

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Known for
  
Co-founder of Scoopler, renowned expert in search technology and user interface design

Similar People
  
Sergey Brin, David Drummond, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt

Residence
  
United States of America

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

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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. There he studied engineering and science, graduating with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer science in 2006.

Later life

After graduation Jayawardane joined Oracle Corporation in San Francisco Californica 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 stated up his own company called Scoopler Inc, and started developing a search engine. In 2008 he was chosen to participate in a seed-funding program by Y Combinator. 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. He was also a key developer for Google's Google+ social network and Space elevator project.

References

Dilan Jayawardane Wikipedia


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