Summary
Chinthaka Deshapriya is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Officer with deep expertise in Enterprise Linux and open source, backed by over two decades as a Red Hat evangelist and the first Red Hat Certified Instructor in Sri Lanka. He has pioneered open source skills development in South Asia, founding OpenED and producing hundreds of RHCEs and the country’s first RHCA holders, while also delivering enterprise-grade Linux and DevOps solutions to major Sri Lankan corporations. As CTO of Cybergate since 2016 and an external DevOps architect for the LK Domain Registry, he blends hands-on certification-backed technical depth (RHCSA, RHCE, RHCVA, RHCDS, RHCA) with strategic leadership in training and productization. Equally entrepreneurial, he has consulted across the Philippines and Vietnam and helped seed several open source solution startups, leaving a lasting ecosystem impact that’s visible in the next generation of certified engineers.
8 years of coding experience