Summary
Thilina Gamage is a Technical Lead and cloud-native engineering leader based in Melbourne with 10 years of experience and 7+ years focused on designing secure, scalable AWS systems for fintech and wealth management platforms. He has led multi-disciplinary engineering teams, owned DevOps/SRE and security practices, and helped a UK-focused SaaS product secure $4M+ in funding through production-grade architecture and feature delivery. Hands-on with Node.js/TypeScript, serverless microservices, Terraform/Ansible, and observability tooling, he combines deep backend performance tuning (Golang, gRPC) with pragmatic infrastructure automation. A prolific technical communicator and DevRel blogger, his tutorials attract tens of thousands of monthly readers, reflecting a talent for translating complex platform decisions into developer-facing guidance. Notably, he has driven multiple production go-lives and 100+ deployments while building internal training programs and knowledge hubs that raised engineering maturity across organisations.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Honours Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Honours Computer Science and Engineering at University of Moratuwa
Online Certification Program Capital Markets Investment Banking Corporate Finance Retail & Business Banking Products , Online Certification Program Capital Markets Investment Banking Corporate Finance Retail & Business Banking Products at Corporate Finance Institute® (CFI)
CIMA Diploma in Management Accounting, CIMA Diploma in Management Accounting at CIMA
Secondary Education Physical Sciences, Secondary Education Physical Sciences at Royal College Colombo
English