Suranga Chandratillake, co-founder and CTO of blinkx, has lived and breathed technology since he was seven years old, when he was first introduced to the 6502-powered BBC Micro Model B. He went on to complete an MA in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge, England, where he specialized in distributed processing architectures.
Professionally, Suranga has worked on a diverse (the unkind might say confused) range of projects in a variety of roles: as an algorithms developer on portfolio risk balancing systems for the investment bank, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, a technology analyst on voice-recognition applications at netdecisions (a UK-based consulting and venture technology group) and, catching the start-up bug, founding Anondesign, a Cambridge-based technology company that built a 'live' content management system years before RSS was a glint in someone else's eye.
Finally, another Cambridge-based technology company -- Autonomy Corporation PLC -- caught his attention and he joined the company. After working through a number of roles, he moved to San Francisco to be the company's US CTO, the role he played directly before founding blinkx.