Summary
Nilan Kirige is a seasoned Network and System Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience designing, operating, and automating high-availability Linux/Unix infrastructures across banking and financial markets. He blends deep expertise in enterprise server and storage platforms (Hitachi, HP 3PAR, Oracle, VSP), SAN and network switching (Cisco Nexus, Mellanox), virtualization (VMware, OVM, RHV, Solaris LDOMs) and HA solutions with practical automation using Ansible and shell scripting. At the London Stock Exchange he led operational resiliency work—backup compliance, DR testing, vulnerability management and vendor SLAs—while earlier roles drove datacenter automation at Commercial Bank of Ceylon and Mobitel. Based in Darwin, Australia, he actively pursues open-source involvement (founder of @teamuplk) and brings a habit of turning repetitive operational tasks into automated, auditable processes.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc (Hons) in Information Technology Information Technology, Bsc (Hons) in Information Technology Information Technology at University of Moratuwa
Mathematics, Mathematics at Bandaranayake College - Gampaha