Sameera Hewage
Chief Information Security Officer
Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
Summary
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Top SchoolSameera Hewage is a seasoned security and systems leader with 9 years’ experience designing and operating enterprise infrastructure, now serving as Chief Information Security Officer at Commercial Credit and Finance PLC. She brings deep hands-on expertise across firewalls, networking, virtualization, cloud (AWS, Huawei, local ISPs), and endpoint/security tools (CrowdStrike, Cortex XDR, Kaspersky) from roles managing 3,000+ users and datacenter services. Her background spans implementation of ISO 27001 controls, large Google Workspace migrations, and automation with Jenkins/Rundeck, reflecting a practical blend of SysOps, DevOps and security. Comfortable in both vendor-facing procurement and audit-facing governance, she pairs tactical L2/L3 troubleshooting with strategic risk management. Based in Colombo, Sameera is completing a BSc (Hons) in Cyber Security while evolving from a Systems/DevOps engineer into a CISO who still enjoys infrastructure automation.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
CCNA Training Course, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Passed, CCNA Training Course, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Passed at Turnkey IT CampusArts, Arts at Ananda CollegeBIT, Computer Engineering, Pending, BIT, Computer Engineering, Pending at University of ColomboBSc (Hons) Cyber Security, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, BSc (Hons) Cyber Security, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at University of Greenwich
English, Sinhala
Github Skills (35)
rss10
torrent10
proxy10
jackett10
transmission10
api10
indexer10
couchpotato10
medusa10
nodejs9
credit-card8
financial8
rundeck7
maintenance7
java7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Rhsameera/ESPWifiMonitor
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 release, 7 commits, 6 pushes in 5 months
Rhsameera/Active_Directory_Linux
Nov 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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