Gapstars, Sri Lanka's leading software development and IT talent partner to more than 75 leading European enterprises and scale ups, has been ranked fourth in the technology industry in the Great Place To Work Sri Lanka 2026 awards. It is one of three Great Place To Work recognitions the Group has won this year, alongside a Great Place For Young Talent award, and a ninth consecutive Great Place To Work certification overall.

"Being ranked fourth in the technology industry, against every certified tech company in the country, says something specific: that the teams we build for our partners are being developed inside a genuinely world-class environment," says Hugo Hemmen, Founder and CEO of Gapstars. "We work with leading European companies who trust us for top engineering and finance talent, and this ranking is proof that trust is well placed."

The Great Place For Young Talent award recognises how deliberately Gapstars invests in people early in their careers, giving them the structure and support to grow into roles with real client ownership and international exposure from day one.

"Growth here isn't left to chance," says Phillipa Bowerbank, Head of People & Culture. "Every performance review comes with a skills-gap-based learning goal, not a generic template, and that structure is a big part of why young professionals choose to build their careers here."

That same care extends to how Gapstars keeps its next generation of tech and finance talent engaged. Gapstars Academy pairs every performance review with a skills-gap-based learning goal, the biweekly Data and AI Guild keeps engineers close to what's changing in the field, FinCircle keeps finance talent ahead of shifting compliance and reporting standards, the annual Hackathon gives cross-functional teams a day to build outside their usual scope, among many other initiatives.

"We're competing for the same people global tech firms want. The difference is we're offering them a place to grow up in their careers, not just a job, and that's exactly what this recognition is measuring," says Stasz Zernicke, Country Director Sri Lanka & Portugal.

Gapstars Group operates across two verticals, Tech and Finance, helping ambitious European companies scale through dedicated, long-term talent.