Akalanka Jayalath
Lead Devops Engineer - Delivery Manager at University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka
Kottawa, Western Province, Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolAkalanka Jayalath is a Lead DevOps Engineer and Delivery Manager with 8 years of experience building resilient cloud infrastructure, securing environments, and driving delivery excellence across Azure, AWS and on-premise systems. He has led teams through migrations, audits and ISMS implementation—maintaining 99.99% uptime across 50+ servers while reducing manual toil through CI/CD automation with Jenkins, GitLab and Octopus. Comfortable across container orchestration, logging/monitoring, and security tooling (Kubernetes, ELK/Grafana, Burp/Nessus/Kali), he blends hands-on scripting (Bash, Groovy, PowerShell) with process and compliance rigor (GDPR, ISO 27001). As a mentor and former ISMS manager he routinely produces SOPs, runbooks and knowledge bases that scale team capability beyond individual contributions. He also teaches as a visiting lecturer at University of Kelaniya, reflecting a commitment to developing the next generation of engineers. Based in Kottawa, Sri Lanka, he pairs practical delivery experience with a continual curiosity for emerging cloud and security practices.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Physical Sciences, Physical Sciences at Bandarawela Central CollageManagement and information technology Information Technology, Management and information technology Information Technology at University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka
Sinhalese, English
Stackoverflow
65reputation
6kreached
3answers
9questions
Github Skills (15)
maven6
eclipse6
anytree6
jbehave6
bash6
curl6
selenium6
python6
java6
backend5
frontend3
react3
nextjs2
golang2
workflow-management2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
akalankajayalath/jenkins-ci
Jun 2020 - Aug 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
akalankajayalath/sep1demo
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 7 months
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