Danishka Navin
Cybersecurity Consultant at DocumentVault
Australia
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Top SchoolDanishka Navin is a cybersecurity consultant with 16 years of hands-on experience designing secure, resilient, and compliant systems across industries, currently advising on software-based medical devices and edge computing. He blends deep infrastructure and DevSecOps expertise—Kubernetes, OpenStack, StarlingX, Terraform—with regulatory know-how from FDA, HIPAA, PCI-DSS and frameworks like NIST CSF and ISO 27001. Danishka has run global vulnerability and risk programs, embedded security-by-design practices (SBOMs, threat modeling, security testing) into SDLCs, and translated technical risk into executive decision-making. He also brings proven large-scale operations experience from AWS and telecom environments, performance tuning for GPU virtualization, and incident-ready security monitoring. An active open-source and community leader since the mid-2000s, he founded Hanthana Linux and leads language localization efforts—showing a rare mix of practitioner security work and grassroots FOSS stewardship. Based in Australia with academic roles mentoring cybersecurity students, he uniquely bridges applied engineering, compliance, and education.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Information Security, Master's degree Information Security at University of ColomboBSc Information Technology, BSc Information Technology at SLIITBSc Joint Major Industrial Management and Information Technology, BSc Joint Major Industrial Management and Information Technology at Wayamba University of Sri Lanka
English, Sinhala
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Github Skills (71)
localization9
firefox-webextension9
firefox8
internationalization8
webextension8
inpainting8
firefox-addon8
gettext8
mozilla8
translation8
generative-art7
windows7
directories7
javascript7
linux7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
danishka/reliefsupports.org
Jun 2017 - Nov 2024
Relief Supports is an open source project to support volunteers who working in relief activities.
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 6 months
activitiesopen-source-projectreliefvolunteers
OWASP/www-chapter-colombo
Mar 2021 - Mar 2023
OWASP Foundation Web Respository
Contributions:1 PR, 43 pushes in 2 years
web-foundationsecurityowaspfoundationrespository
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