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Hi, I'm Kasun de Silva
I'm an experienced DevOps/Cloud Engineer (SRE), and a total Linux geek. I'm a highly motivated individual interested in Cloud and Serverless computing, Distributed Systems, and Microservice architecture. I have more than 10 years of experience in the DevOps and the Cloud space and I love to explore more and go deeper.
Years of Experience
What I Do?
I'm currently working as a Senior DevOps Engineer in the SRE team at Xero. I maintain internal production systems that are mission critical for the everyday engineering operations. Mainly I look after multiple CI/CD instances including 1000s of their build agents and I take care of multiple artifact repositories.
Cricket
I love to play hard ball cricket and I'm a top order batsman for one of the Wellington NZ Cricket clubs.
Bass Guitarist
I picked up playing bass guitar back in 2010 I still keep playing. It helps me relax my mind.
Gym
I love to workout in the Gym to keep me fit and healthy. It really helps to improve my strength and shape.
Resume
A summary of My Resume
My Education
B.Sc (Hons) Special in Computer Science
University of Sri Jayewardenepura / 2010 - 2014
I completed a bachelor's degree in 2013 with Second Class Honors (Upper Division) with a Grade Point Average of 3.2.
My Achievements
AWS Community Builder
Amazon Web Services (AWS) / 2023 - present
Certified AWS Solutions Architect - Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS) / 2020
Sun Certified Programmer Java 2 Platform, SE 5.0
Sun Microsystems / 2009
My Experience
Senior Engineer
Xero / 2022 - current
I maintain internal production systems that are mission critical for the everyday engineering operations. Mainly I look after multiple CI/CD instances including 1000s of their build agents and I take care of multiple artifact repositories.
Senior Engineer
Westpac NZ / 2021 - 2022
I worked as a DevOps specialist for the Forensic Analysis team, I was helping them to migrate their analysis tools from monolith on-prem to Kubernetes.
Senior Engineer
Spark NZ / 2019 - 2021
I developed and maintained the cloud infrastructure for multiple Big Data projects for many New Zealand customers .
Engineer
Datacom / 2018 - 2019
I developed and maintained cloud infrastructure for various integration projects. Mainly helped to get NZ the government departments to start with their cloud journey.
Senior Engineer
WSO2 / 2016 - 2018
I was one of the founding members of the WSO2 Cloud effort. Helped build WSO2 Cloud from scratch and keeping it alive for many years.
Engineer
WSO2 / 2014 - 2016
I was part of the engineering team that developed WSO2 Middleware stack. Helped developing and supporting many WSO2 Middleware products even in the customer use cases.
My Skills
AWS 95%
GCP 80%
Azure 70%
Kubernetes 80%
Docker 90%
Python 90%
Bash 85%
terraform 90%
Ansible 75%
JavaScript 80%