Gayan J is a Site Reliability Engineering Manager at Cisco, where he is building the Cisco XDR SRE team from the ground up and leads cross-functional efforts to deliver highly reliable, scalable, and secure solutions on AWS. With 10+ years in software and 8+ years focused on containerization and cloud infrastructure, he excels at managing container ecosystems, capacity planning, and performance optimization. He champions security and compliance programs, establishing SOC 2 Type 3 and ISO 27001 with no exceptions, and leads incident response, root-cause analysis, and preventive improvements. Previously, as Senior SRE at Ping Identity, he led multi-region AWS data-center initiatives and guided projects using Kubernetes, Consul, Vault, Cassandra, Kafka, and related technologies. Based in Calgary, Canada, he combines hands-on engineering depth with strategic leadership to align engineering, product, and business priorities.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc (Eng,hons), Computer Engineering, Bsc (Eng,hons), Computer Engineering at University of Peradeniya
Contributions:14 PRs, 18 pushes, 15 branches in 20 days
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