Summary
Kasun De Silva is a Senior Engineer with 11 years' experience building cloud-native, distributed systems and DevOps platforms, currently contributing to Xero’s infrastructure in Wellington, New Zealand. He has progressed through roles in SRE and platform engineering at organizations including Westpac NZ, Qrious and Datacom, combining hands-on software engineering with reliability and automation practices. Kasun’s background spans both product and enterprise environments, giving him a knack for translating operational pain points into scalable platform solutions. Outside work he’s a musician—bass, guitar and saxophone player and singer—which hints at a collaborative, creative approach to engineering and systems design.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Richmond College
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at University of Sri Jayewardenepura
English, Sinhalese