Kasun Talwatta
Field Engineer (APAC) at solo.io
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolKasun Talwatta is a seasoned full-stack engineer and Field Engineer for APAC at solo.io with 13 years of experience spanning DevOps, SRE, architecture, and software development across healthcare, telecoms, and fintech. He combines deep systems-level skills in C/C++ and Java with modern cloud-native practices—microservices, AWS, and DevOps toolchains—while also shipping frontend work in Angular and React. A pragmatic problem-solver, he has led DevOps practices at SteadyPay and delivered integration projects in Health IT, bringing both consulting discipline and hands-on execution. Kasun is an open-source advocate who transitioned from developer and SRE roles into customer-facing solution architecture, translating complex technical needs into deployable systems. Based in Auckland, he pairs a Master of Engineering in Software Engineering with a hobbyist passion for electronics and robotics that often informs his systems-thinking approach. Notably, his background bridges low-level engineering and cloud-native orchestration, making him effective at both performance-sensitive and large-scale distributed systems.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Software Engineering, Honours, Master of Engineering (MEng), Software Engineering, Honours at Victoria University of WellingtonBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Engineering at University of Auckland
English, Sinhalese
Github Skills (200)
proxy10
serverless10
portable10
fault-injection10
api10
aes10
oracle10
observe10
controller10
istio10
ingress-nginx10
docker-compose10
proxies10
high-performance10
grpc10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
day0ops/colima
Aug 2022 - Mar 2024
Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
containersruntimeslinuxdockerkubernetes
day0ops/istio
Jul 2023 - Dec 2024
Connect, secure, control, and observe services.
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
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