Sahan Gunathilaka
Senior DevOps Engineer at Next
Leicester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSahan Gunathilaka is a Senior DevOps Engineer based in Leicester with nine years of experience building cloud-native, resilient platforms that prioritize automation, scalability, and cost-efficient operations. He specializes in Azure and Kubernetes (AKS), Terraform-driven Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD orchestration with Azure DevOps pipelines, while also maintaining strong AWS and EKS proficiency. Sahan excels in SRE practices—chaos engineering, on-call reliability, and disaster recovery designs that sustain 99.5%+ uptime for mission-critical services. He has a track record of leading cloud migrations, microservices consolidation, and security-conscious platform work (Entra ID, Key Vault, SOC 2), consistently removing delivery bottlenecks to accelerate the “velocity of progression.” Beyond tooling, he blends a developer mindset and HR-aware communication skills from formal HR study to bridge engineering and people processes effectively.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of the Science of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of the Science of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering at University of MoratuwaGCE Advanced Level Examination 2014, Physical Science (Maths), GCE Advanced Level Examination 2014, Physical Science (Maths) at Sri Sumangala College, Panadura, Sri LankaHuman Resource Management - Certificate Level, Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General, Human Resource Management - Certificate Level, Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General at TiHRM, Sri Lanka
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Github Skills (45)
python10
identity10
wso210
authentication10
machine-learning10
identity-management10
terraform10
deep-learning10
authorization10
wso2-identity-server10
access-management10
data-science9
terraform-provider9
tensorflow9
neural-network9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
sahanruwanga/asdgenus
Nov 2019 - Dec 2022
ASDGenus - A web application for classifying ASD from raw EEG data given as input
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
wso2-incubator/identity-incommon-manager
Dec 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 comment in 1 year 4 months
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