Yajith Dayarathna
DevOps Engineer at Portainer.io
Auckland Metropolitan Area New Zealand
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Top SchoolYajith Dayarathna is a DevOps and Infrastructure Engineer with nine years of focused experience delivering virtualization, cloud (IaaS), storage and disaster-recovery solutions across enterprise environments. Based in Auckland, he has progressed from hands-on Linux systems and storage roles to platform and principal engineering positions at Datacom and now contributes to Portainer.io as a DevOps engineer. He brings deep expertise in VMware, EMC, Veeam and Red Hat ecosystems, coupled with a passion for GNU/Linux and open-source tooling. Beyond ops, he has practical Go and Kubernetes exposure through contributions to the popular Portainer project, demonstrating comfort with cloud-native stacks and CVE remediation. Colleagues rely on him for bridging legacy storage and modern cloud platforms while designing centralized backup and DR solutions. He’s driven to further specialize in virtualization/cloud, storage and resilient Linux infrastructure engineering.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Rahula CollegeBachelor's Degree, Computing & Information Systems, Upper Second Class Honours, Bachelor's Degree, Computing & Information Systems, Upper Second Class Honours at London Metropolitan University
Sinhala, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
go-modules10
kubernetes10
portainer10
docker10
go10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
cve9
docker-compose7
cartodb6
javascript6
jquery6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
portainer/portainer
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:30 releases, 9 reviews, 26 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Yajith primarily focused on maintaining and updating the project's Go-based codebase. Their contributions include updating the Go directive in the `go.mod` file, addressing CVE vulnerabilities, and bumping the Go version. Additionally, the user made some changes to the Kubernetes-related files, indicating familiarity with this technology.
containersdockerfilezammaddocker-imageremote-development
yajith/yajith.github.io
Jul 2016 - Jan 2024
Contributions:10 PRs, 52 pushes, 9 branches in 7 years 7 months
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