Sameera Punchihewa Email & Phone Number

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

• Architecting a solution for artifact management process from product development to release using Jfrog Artifactory
• Define the processes and standards to bring all RnD teams to a common process to work with their artifacts in different stages in the development to release process
• Handle the Jfrog Artifactory migration process by managing communications, design, and implementation process with RnD teams and Jfrog teams
• Lead the teams by providing DevOps thought leadership and mentoring to implement the DevOps way of working and adopt best practices in the infrastructure and environment management, Release Management, Continuous.
• Broad problem analysis and define solutions by convincing other stakeholders
• Ability to lead technical discussions with multiple stakeholders to achieve the best possible processes and solutions

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

• Design and implement the IFS Cloud release pipelines with GitLab to handle two major releases a year and monthly service update releases for multiple tracks
• Simplify the release process by defining the end-to-end process with automation in GitLab pipelines,bash scripts, Azure cli. Maintain clear documentation, improving the communications withing stakeholders, and.
• Define the way of working in the release team to handle multiple releases and communications
• Implement actions for Azure cost management which resulted in one-third of cost savings

• As quality owner of the team, facilitate and drive the team to continuously improve on test coverage
• Plan and develop automated tests in CI/CD pipelines to ensure quality in helm charts and terraform infrastructure code
• Use modern test frameworks to test Kubernetes deployments and cloud infrastructure automation
• Perform security vulnerability scanning in opensource docker images
• Plan and coordinate end-to-end application level security assessment testing with external testing providers
• Automating R&D test infrastructure provisioning and Kubernetes cluster provisioning in Azure with Terraform

• IFS Applications Central monitoring solution implementation to observe Cloud-hosted ERP application status using Kubernetes, Azure Cloud, Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager and metrics exporters
• ERP Application middle tier transformation to Kubernetes deployments using Kubernetes, Docker, Azure Kubernetes Services, Bash Scripting
• Design and develop automated test environment provisioning tool to enhance developer experience in application testing using Azure VMs, Docker, Terraform, Packer, Bash scripting and Jenkins pipelines
• Plan and Implement framework delivery CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Docker, Git and bash scripting

Sri Lanka

• Plan,design and maintenance of internal development and testing environments
• Perform troubleshooting and fixing issues in mission critical developer testing environments
• Provide on-site support and infrastructure setup management for major system test events from Sweden
• Oracle pluggable database management
• Source code management with Subversion

Sri Lanka

Colombo

Sri Lanka

Selected as the representative from the Rajarata University and participated in a two week academic program at the Gothenburg University in Sweden as part of the student exchange program in February, 2010.

Msc In It, Information Technology, Merit

Bsc, Information & Communication Technology, First Class

Activities and Societies: Member of the university chess team, represent the university in 2010 student exchange program between our.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Vice president of IT club, President of the quiz club