Kamal Mettananda
Head Of Engineering at NewtonRussell
Sri Lanka
Summary
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Top SchoolKamal Mettananda is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and modernizing telecom and enterprise platforms, now serving as Head of Engineering at NewtonRussell. He has repeatedly led large migrations—from monoliths to Spring Boot microservices on Kubernetes to legacy-stack upgrades—delivering high-availability systems, CI/CD automation, and measurable release velocity improvements. Kamal combines hands-on architecture and development skills (Java, Spring, OSGi, Helm, Docker) with people leadership, mentoring senior engineers and coordinating complex customer migrations to minimize downtime. Educated in computer science at the University of Moratuwa and holding an MSc, he began his career as one of the first hires who scaled early engineering teams and still retains a practical focus on deployability and operational excellence.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Engineering (Hons) Computer Sciences and Engineering, BSc Engineering (Hons) Computer Sciences and Engineering at University of MoratuwaAnanda CollegeMSc Master of Computer Science, MSc Master of Computer Science at University of Colombo
Sinhalese, English
Github Skills (79)
jenkins-api-plugin10
log4j10
api10
spring-cloud-sleuth10
tricks10
logger10
spring-cloud-config10
spring-cloud-netflix10
logback9
maven-mojo9
rest9
remoting9
correlation9
jenkins-plugin9
syslog9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lkamal/logging-log4j2
Apr 2016 - Jul 2023
Contributions:16 PRs, 15 pushes in 7 years 4 months
javalog4j2loggingapache
lkamal/library-ms-books
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
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