Template:Sarveswaran Kengatharaiyer
Sarveswaran Kengatharaiyer is responsible for Virtual Learning Environments to Noolaham Foundation.
Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran, known as Sarves, was born in Jaffna Sri Lanka in 1981. Sarves currently attached to the Department of Computer Science as a lecturer since 2011. He also serves as an eLearning consultant at this University since 2009. Prior to joining to the University of Jaffna, he worked as a Systems Engineer at University of Moratuwa and LK Domain Registry for 4 years. He has provided consultancies to Government and Private organizations while in Colombo. He holds B.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Peradeniya and Masters of Science in Computer Science from University of Moratuwa. Sarves has published research papers in conferences held in Sri Lanka and abroad. He has been in several conference organizing committees, including INET-Colombo. He received his secondary education from St’ Anthony’s College, Kandy and Jaffna Hindu College.
He is actively working on community empowerment. He is a co-founder/founder member of Yarl IT Hub, Nudpam, and ISoC-Sri Lanka organizations which work towards Community development and empowerment. Sarves serves in several executive committees, and holds positions including Director, President, Chairman, and Vice-President in different organizations.
His interests are Local Language Computing, e-Learning, and Natural Language Processing. He has led several Localization projects while at University of Moratuwa and he is a l10N committer of leading Open Source Projects including Mozilla, Joomla!, GeoGebra. He has conducted more than 50 seminars and workshops, mainly for Local Language Computing and Web development, for various levels of audience from school students, general Public to University professors. Sarves writes Technical Columns, essays, Technical Manuals in Tamil, and Short stories in his leisure time. He has authored/co-authored user manuals for Joomla!, Moodle and Mozilla.
He is located in Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
