Isuru Nanayakkara
Senior Operations Engineer
Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolIsuru Nanayakkara is a Senior Operations Engineer with over 13 years of hands-on experience designing, automating, and operating Linux- and cloud-native infrastructure. Based in Colombo, he leads Terraform-driven AWS deployments, container orchestration with Docker/Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines while applying ITIL-aligned operational practices to minimize downtime. Skilled in Python and Bash automation, Ansible configuration management, and performance tuning, he combines deep sysadmin instincts with pragmatic cloud cost and security optimizations. His background spans enterprise-grade network and server projects in Bahrain and Sri Lanka, including disaster recovery and large-site migrations, which honed his incident response and documentation discipline. A committed mentor and interview panel contributor, he actively promotes knowledge sharing and continuous improvement within teams. Unusually for an infrastructure engineer, he paired recent academic study (MSc IT, Merit) with ongoing certs in Terraform and AWS, signaling both practical depth and continuous professional development.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
RHCSA, A, RHCSA, A at winITMCSA (Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator), MCSA (Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator) at MicrosoftMSc in Information Technology, Information Technology, Merit, MSc in Information Technology, Information Technology, Merit at Cardiff Metropolitan UniversityBiology, General, Biology, General at President’s College, MaharagamaCCNP-BCMSN(642-812), CCNP-BCMSN(642-812) at CISCOSpecial Diploma In Network Administration, Special Diploma In Network Administration at WINSYS INSTITUTEORACLE 10g (1ZO-047) database management, ORACLE 10g (1ZO-047) database management at NET ASSITINSTITUTE
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Github Skills (200)
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desktop10
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Isuru-Nanayakkara/Xcode-Empty-Application-Template
Dec 2014 - Jul 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 4 years 6 months
emptytemplatebringingtemplate-applicationxcode
Isuru-Nanayakkara/Reach
Oct 2016 - Jul 2019
A simple class to check for internet connection availability in Swift.
Contributions:4 commits, 5 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 years 9 months
availabilityconnectionswiftiosinternet
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