Danu Abeysuriya

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Danu Abeysuriya is Founder & CTO of RUSH, Designing Technology to Better Service Humankind.

Danu Abeysuriya has nearly two decades of experience as a technical innovator, entrepreneur, and leader in technology. He founded RUSH fourteen years ago and it quickly went from a garage start-up to developing world-first solutions for companies such as Microsoft, Disney, Google, Samsung and Nokia to name a few.

Danu is a twice nominated Hi-Tech Young Achiever, winning in 2016, and RUSH was a finalist in this year's Hi-Tech Solution for Public Good for it's design and development of the NZ COVID Tracer app.

As RUSH's CTO and computer vision lead, Danu oversees the technological direction of a company with its sights on making a global impact, with the ultimate purpose of designing technology to better serve humankind.

Personally, Danu is passionate about social equity, poverty alleviation and education. "We have a responsibility to use our developer privilege to change the world for the better."