Sysco LABS Shines at the National ICT Awards 2024

Three Sysco LABS colleagues were recognized at the Annual National ICT Awards 2024 organized by the Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL). Ishanka Thilakaratne, Associate Director - Operations, was named ‘CSSL ICT Manager of the Year’, Gayan Ranaraja, Senior Project Manager, was named ‘CSSL ICT PM of the Year’ and Sivaruby Nirooparan, Senior Quality Engineering Lead, was named ‘CSSL Software Tester of the Year’ at the event. The awards, held recently at the Shangri-La Colombo, celebrated excellence across Sri Lanka’s ICT industry.

Image One: Ishanka Thilakaratne, Associate Director - Operations, Sysco LABS, accepting his award for ‘CSSL ICT Manager of the Year’

Image Two: Gayan Ranaraja, Senior Project Manager, Sysco LABS, accepting his award for ‘CSSL ICT PM of the Year’

Image Three: Sivaruby Nirooparan, Senior Quality Engineering Lead, Sysco LABS, accepting her award for ‘CSSL Software Tester of the Year’

About Sysco LABS

Sysco LABS is the captive innovation arm of Sysco Corporation (NYSE: SYY), the world’s largest foodservice company. Sysco is a Fortune 500 company and the global leader in selling, marketing, and distributing food products to restaurants, healthcare, and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other customers who prepare meals away from home. Its family of products also includes equipment and supplies for the foodservice and hospitality industries.

With more than 76,000 colleagues, the company operates 334 distribution facilities worldwide and serves approximately 730,000 customer locations. For fiscal year 2024 that ended July 1, 2024, the company generated sales of more than $78.8 billion. 

Operating with the agility and tenacity of a tech–startup, powered by the expertise of the industry leader, Sysco LABS is perfectly poised to transform one of the world’s largest industries. 

Sysco LABS’s engineering teams based out of Colombo, Sri Lanka and Austin and Houston, TX, innovate across the entire food service journey – from the enterprise grade technology that enables Sysco’s business, to the technology that revolutionizes the way that Sysco connects with restaurants and the technology that shapes the way those restaurants connect with customers. 

Sysco LABS technology is present in the sourcing of food products, merchandising, storage and warehouse operations, order placement and pricing algorithms, the delivery of food and supplies to Sysco’s global network, the in-restaurant dining experience of the end-customer and much more.