Aruna Fernando
Vice President Of Software Engineering at New Relic
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Top SchoolAruna Fernando is a seasoned product and engineering leader with 25+ years of experience driving business transformation through technology and currently serves as Senior Director of Software Engineering at New Relic. She has a proven track record of building high-performing, inclusive teams and leading large commercial engineering portfolios at Salesforce and Microsoft, spanning Sales Planning, Order-to-Cash and enterprise-scale systems. Known for blending strategic product thinking with executional rigor, she repeatedly scales organizations through hiring, mentorship and process improvements. Based in Hyderabad, Aruna brings deep experience across both product and platform domains, having progressed from systems analyst to senior leadership across global technology firms. Her leadership ethos—captured by her GitHub motto “What goes around comes around!”—reflects a focus on long-term team culture and reciprocal mentorship. A PSG College of Technology alumnus in Electronics and Communications, she pairs engineering fundamentals with decades of operational experience delivering measurable business outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electronics and Communications Engineering at PSG College of Technology
Github Skills (103)
argoproj9
docker-container9
terraform-module9
nginx9
administration9
postgresql-database9
pgadmin9
helm8
terraform8
aws8
dockerhub8
kubernetes8
postgresql7
php-fpm7
security7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
arunalakmal/pgadmin-helm-chart
Aug 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:10 PRs, 14 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 8 months
ArunaLakmal/Dockerfile-Terraform-Ansible-AWS
Dec 2019 - Aug 2021
Dockerfile for the runners, I used in GitLab CI and GitHub Actions
Contributions:54 PRs, 79 pushes, 17 branches in 1 year 8 months
dockerfilegitlab-cigithubactionsdevopsrunners
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