Nilanga Virajith
DevOps Engineering Specialist at University of Newcastle
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNilanga Virajith is a DevOps Engineering Specialist and seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience designing and operating scalable backend systems across finance, logistics, and travel. He combines deep Java/Kotlin and Spring Boot expertise with practical AWS and Redis-based architectures, having modernized messaging pipelines from IBM MQ to SQS and built event-driven engines with Redis Streams. Nilanga has led teams as a technical lead and Scrum Master, driving CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and cost-optimised cloud solutions such as self-terminating Fargate jobs and containerised test environments via Testcontainers. His work spans API design, federated auth, workflow orchestration with Airflow, and observability (Datadog), and he brings hands-on production support experience resolving high-stakes incidents. Based in Newcastle with full Australian work rights, he blends engineering leadership with a knack for pragmatic automation that reduces manual effort and operational cost.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Engineering Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Engineering Computer Science & Engineering at University of MoratuwaG.C.E Advanced Level Physical Sciences, G.C.E Advanced Level Physical Sciences at Badulla Central College
Github Skills (12)
phonegap-plugin6
phonegap4
javascript3
cordova3
receipt-validation3
sdk3
analytics2
cordova-plugin2
optical-character-recognition1
ocr1
tesseract1
mobile1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nilangav/nilangav
Nov 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
StackScout/handy-mandy-api
May 2022 - May 2023
Handy Mandy Backend API
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
apimandyexpressbackendnodejs
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