Rasanga Perera
Senior Cloud Engineering Lead at Pearson
Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
Summary
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Top SchoolRasanga Perera is a Senior Cloud Engineering Lead with 11 years of hands-on experience delivering cloud migrations, full-stack applications, and production-grade DevOps at Pearson and prior SaaS firms. He combines architecture, hands-on development, and team leadership—having led the StatCrunch engineering team through an AWS migration and 24/7 operational readiness—while driving engineering best practices, code review, and cross-continental collaboration. Comfortable across backend, frontend and infrastructure, he has a track record of modernizing legacy systems, introducing CI/CD and containerized environments, and improving observability and release stability. Known for pragmatic problem-solving under pressure, he mentors teams, aligns product and technical vision, and consistently meets tight deadlines with high quality. Based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Rasanga pairs a first-class Software Engineering degree with a blend of customer-facing and technical execution that makes him both a reliable operator and a strategic engineering partner.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BEng (Hons), Software Engineering, 1st Class Honours (with Sandwich), BEng (Hons), Software Engineering, 1st Class Honours (with Sandwich) at University of Westminster
Italian, Sinhalese, English
Github Skills (45)
flash-messages10
javascript10
identity10
css10
material-design10
php10
symfony10
elastica10
bundle9
material-design-lite9
elasticsearch-php9
symfony-bundle9
backend9
elasticsearch9
docker8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Rasanga/FlashAlertBundle
Aug 2014 - Jan 2021
Simplified way to handle (add/display) Symfony flash messages. Client side scripts are written in pure JavaScript. https://packagist.org/packages/ras/flash-alert-bundle
Contributions:4 releases, 78 commits, 17 PRs in 6 years 6 months
flash-messagesjavascriptsymfony
rasanga/symfony-demo
Sep 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:8 PRs, 21 pushes, 5 branches in 11 months
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