Software development & product engineering

We build software for clients, and the teams to build it with you.

Zepla Labs builds, manages, and supports software for clients, and helps you hire and build your own engineering team from Sri Lanka's top talent. One team, held to the same bar on everything it ships.

Build, manage, support

Service delivery

Client products & teams

Sri Lanka

Engineering talent

Hire & build your team

Embedded

Engagement model

Direct & accountable

AI-assisted

Engineering practice

Built into delivery

The Model

We build your team, and support what you've already built.

Traditional outsourcing hands off work and disappears after launch. Zepla Labs embeds a dedicated engineering team inside your organisation to build new software, and stays on to manage and support what you already have in production. Your team is accountable, your institutional knowledge stays in-house, and the same engineering discipline carries over from our own products to yours.

Full team composition

Engineers, QA, and a tech lead sourced from Sri Lanka's top engineering talent and assembled around your stack, not a generic bench.

Embedded, not adjacent

Your team operates inside your tools, your standups, and your codebase, not as a parallel team handing work over a wall.

Product development, integrated

The same team building your software also ships our own consumer products, so decisions are shaped by direct product ownership, not theory.

Direct leadership oversight

Every engagement is led by the founders directly, not relayed through account managers.

Capabilities

What our teams do

Select a stage to see how we approach it.

We start by understanding your product, constraints, and goals, and turn that into a scoped plan before any code is written.

Production monitoringIssue triageContinuous iteration
What we do

Service delivery, not a staffing list.

Built around the best engineering talent in Sri Lanka, led by founders who still ship code.

01

Custom software development

New software and products built for clients end to end, from initial architecture through to production.

02

Product management & support

Ongoing management, maintenance, and support for products you already have in production.

03

Dedicated engineering teams

Hire and build your team in Sri Lanka. Embedded engineers who work inside your organisation, your codebase, and your standups.

04

Product engineering

The same end-to-end discipline we apply to client work, applied to our own line of consumer products.

05

AI transformation & integration

R&D and practical adoption of AI in your existing products and workflows.

How we work

A straightforward process, end to end.

1

Discover

We learn your product, constraints, and goals before writing a line of code.

2

Design

Architecture and UX decisions made up front, so nothing ships on guesswork.

3

Build

Iterative delivery in short cycles, with visibility into progress throughout.

4

Launch

Deployed, monitored, and handed over cleanly, or run by us long-term.

5

Support

Ongoing maintenance and iteration after launch, not a one-off handoff.

Why Zepla Labs

The difference is how we work.

Traditional outsourcing loses context. Staff augmentation loses accountability. Zepla Labs retains both: your team is embedded and accountable, and institutional knowledge stays inside your organisation.

No handoffs

The team stays. Knowledge compounds. You don't re-onboard every quarter.

No arms-length delivery

Your team is embedded in your org chart, your standups, and your culture, not reporting through a vendor portal.

Direct leadership accountability

Zepla Labs leadership is personally accountable for engineering quality, not an SLA in a contract addendum.

Built to stay

We design for maintainability from day one, so what we hand over is something your team can actually own.

Leadership

Led by practitioners, not contractors.

Combined decades of engineering and business-analysis experience, applied directly to every engagement.

Charitha Senarathne

Co-Founder

15+ years in software engineering, as a developer, architect, and product manager.

Education

BSc in Information TechnologyUniversity of Moratuwa
MSc in Artificial IntelligenceUniversity of Moratuwa
MSc in Data AnalyticsUniversity of Kelaniya

Uchitha Senarathne

Co-Founder

15+ years of Business Analytics experience.

Education

BSc in Information TechnologyUniversity of Colombo
MBA in Business Analytics

Asitha Senarathne

Co-Founder

8+ years in software development.

Education

BSc in Information TechnologyUniversity of Moratuwa
MSc in Computer ScienceUniversity of London

Let's talk about what you're building.

Whether it's a client project, a dedicated team, or something in between, we'd like to hear about it.