Venura Athukorala
Director, Engineering at PwC Australia
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolVenura Athukorala is a cloud-native technology leader and Director of Engineering with over 15 years of delivery experience and a decade focused on enterprise cloud transformation, primarily on Azure. He has repeatedly translated large, complex programs into high-performance, containerised and PaaS platforms—once accelerating delivery by 400% for a major mining client—and led multi‑million dollar platform builds for banks and global SaaS offerings. Venura combines hands-on cloud architecture and platform engineering with practice leadership, sales enablement and talent development, growing cloud revenue and building high-performance teams. He is active in the Melbourne tech community as co-founder of Azure Builders Melbourne, where he fosters practical learning and fresh session formats. Known for codifying reusable patterns and IP across organisations, he brings a pragmatic “everything as code” mindset to secure, scalable enterprise platforms. Based in Melbourne, he blends consultancy-grade delivery discipline with a product-thinking approach to platform and practice evolution.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Post Graduate Diploma Information Security, Post Graduate Diploma Information Security at University of ColomboB.Sc in MIT (Hons) Information Technology, B.Sc in MIT (Hons) Information Technology at University of Kelaniya Sri LankaHigh School, High School at Royal College Colombo
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Github Skills (75)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
venura9/azure-devops-yaml
Jul 2019 - Mar 2020
Sample Azure DevOps Pipeline Using YAML, Pushes the code all the way up to Production
Contributions:158 commits, 6 PRs, 158 pushes in 8 months
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venura9/venura9.github.io
Jun 2020 - Nov 2022
💎 🐳 A super customizable Jekyll theme for personal site, team site, blog, project, documentation, etc.
Contributions:3 PRs, 77 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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