Hasanthi Lakmali
I’m VP Operations at Knovik and Global HR Practitioner & Recruiter for Europe. I’ve placed 100+ tech professionals from South Asia into roles with European companies over the past two years, as both direct hires and through HR consulting engagements — talent sourcing, candidate evaluation, employer positioning, and the practical realities of cross-border hiring: visa pathways, remote-work structuring, cultural onboarding.
At Knovik, I use our own tools in that work: EdgeTal, the recruitment AI product I help build from the practitioner side. The engineering team handles the architecture; I handle what actually matters to a recruiter using it day to day — does it find the right candidates, does it respect their data, does it save real time.
CIPM Certified
Certified in People Management (CIPM), grounding the practice in recognized HR standards.
Enadoc, IFS, Knovik
HR roles spanning document management, enterprise software, and technology consulting.
EICON 2026 — Best Poster Presenter
Co-authored EdgeTal, Knovik's on-device recruitment AI, and presented it at EICON 2026 (the ESOFT International Conference), winning Best Poster Presenter in the Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems track.
Read the research→AIRC 2026 — Best Presenter Award
Presented and co-authored "From Surveys to Signals", interpretable machine learning for employee commitment and hybrid-work effectiveness in Sri Lankan IT firms, at the APIIT International Research Conference on 1 October 2026, winning the Best Presenter Award.
Read the research→Entrepreneurship Vision
I’m founder of AIHR, an AI-HR venture still at concept stage. It grows out of the same question I ask every day at Knovik: what does a recruiter actually need from AI, versus what gets built because it’s technically possible. AIHR is where that question becomes its own thing, separate from Knovik.
My vision is engineering-first hiring, built beyond traditional ATS systems and keyword-matched CVs — recruitment needs AI that reasons the way a person does. I work with AI for HR applications, and AIHR is where I apply that responsibly.
Where to go from here
If you’re a European company looking to access South Asian tech talent, or a candidate exploring opportunities in Europe, I’d like to hear from you.
Based in Colombo, working with clients across Europe.
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