Mario Fernando
SRE Chapter Lead at ASB Bank
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolMario Fernando is an SRE and platform engineering leader with over a decade of experience designing and operating large-scale, highly available cloud-native systems across AWS and Azure. As the 70th Certified Kubernetes Administrator globally and the first CKA & CKAD in Sri Lanka, he combines deep Kubernetes expertise with Linux Foundation instructor experience to upskill teams and embed best practices. He has led platform builds and migrations for major organisations (Air New Zealand, ASB Bank, TransferWise, Pearson), architecting GitOps-driven CI/CD, observability, and secure guardrails for production microservices and ML workloads. A hands-on engineer in Go, Python and TypeScript, he automates infrastructure and deployments with IaC, while championing DevOps/DevSecOps and SRE culture change. Mario uniquely pairs incident-driven reliability work—SLIs/SLOs, automated remediation and cost optimisation—with formal security and compliance approaches (PCI, ISO/ITIL). Based in Auckland, he’s known for mentoring cross-functional teams and architecting GPU-capable, cost-tuned MLOps platforms using Karpenter and modern observability stacks.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science - Information Security Engineering, Master’s Degree Computer Science - Information Security Engineering at University of MoratuwaA'Levels Maths Stream ( Sri Lankan Syllabus in English Medium ), A'Levels Maths Stream ( Sri Lankan Syllabus in English Medium ) at Lyceum International School (Wattala)B.Sc in Mathematics and Computer Science (2007 A'Level') Computer Science Pure Mathematics Applied Mathematics, B.Sc in Mathematics and Computer Science (2007 A'Level') Computer Science Pure Mathematics Applied Mathematics at University Of KelaniyaOrdinary Level - London Syllabus, Ordinary Level - London Syllabus at Adventist International School , Negombo
English, Sinhalese
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Github Skills (3)
test-project8
testing3
docker2
Github contributions (5)
ifernando/CI-CD-pipeline-spring-boot
Oct 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year
testingtest-projectdocker
ifernando/terraform-aws-db
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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