Upendra Sajith Kumarage Email & Phone Number

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

As the Senior Technical Lead in the Cloud Engineering team, I lead the FinOps practice and platform modernization effort across the organization, focusing on optimizing cost management and operational efficiency. Collaborating closely with architects, Aids in defining optimal deployment and cloud architectures to ensure scalability and performance. Additionally, work closely with the information security team to plan and implement cloud security measures, including PCIDSS compliance, ensuring the safeguarding of sensitive data and regulatory adherence. Also playing a key role in managing the cloud engineering/DevSecOps team, providing guidance and support for efficient cloud infrastructure management and deployment processes.Key Responsibilities:* Drive FinOps best practices, including cost optimization, resource utilization, and budget forecasting. Lead platform modernization initiatives, leveraging cloud-native technologies for improved scalability and agility.* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement secure, resilient, and compliant cloud architectures.* Assist in managing and mentoring a team of cloud engineers and DevSecOps specialists, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.* Monitor cloud infrastructure performance and security, implementing proactive measures to mitigate risks and ensure uptime.

Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Cake Technologies, a Madmobile company, is a leading technology company that offers an end-to-end solution for restaurants and retail outlets. The platform includes cutting-edge technology for payments and extensive integrations, ensuring complete business coverage for clients.As the Technical Lead of the Cloud Engineering Team, I am responsible for leading the team in building a new cloud platform and ensuring that it meets the highest platform standards. My responsibilities also include implementing and maintaining cloud security principles, managing cloud financial operations, and optimizing cloud operations to monitor performance and availability. Additionally, running the cloud engineering practices with agile methodologies and integrating cloud solutions with other teams.

Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Cake Technologies a Madmobile compay is a leading technology company offering a cutting-edge technology platform for restaurants and retail outlets. This platform encompasses various aspects of the business, including payments and extensive integrations, to create a complete end-to-end solution for clients.As a Lead Cloud Engineer at Cake Technologies, I expertly oversee the AWS infrastructure and platform components for both CakePayments and the Cake platform. My foremost objective is to automate the cloud platform and landing zone infrastructure, streamlining processes and improving efficiency. I played a crucial role in migrating legacy cloud components and establishing a new, secure AWS landing zone, implementing robust security and governance measures to meet and exceed PCI DSS standards, and managing financial operations and cloud operations with a focus on optimization. In this role, I also provide guidance and support to the Cloud Engineering team to ensure a deep understanding of core cloud and platform functionalities.

Sri Lanka

As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Brandix Apparel Group, I played a crucial role in building the cloud infrastructure for the cloud migration of the company's applications. My responsibilities included designing and planning the cloud architecture for containerized applications, implementing automation for infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and other DevOps tasks. I was instrumental in building automation suites for cloud migrations, developing architecture plans for integrations, deployments, security, and operations.

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

Cloud Container Platform Engineer at London Stock Exchange GroupAs a member of the Container Platform Team, I was responsible for the development and implementation of a cloud landing zone for container-related services with Kubernetes. I used a range of core technologies including GCP, Anthos, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Python, Terraform, Jenkins with Groovy, and Go to deliver engineering stories related to the creation of the container platform landing zone. My key responsibilities included:• Implementing CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure provisioning to the container platform using Groovy/Jenkins, Python, Terraform, and occasionally Go language.• Implementing security and financial controls for Kubernetes clusters in the container platform to meet compliance and data protection standards.• Supporting the Cloud Operations and SRE team to onboard services to the container platform.• Enhancing the architectural design in accordance with recommendations from major cloud service providers (AWS and GCP).• Building expertise in the container platform within the Cloud Engineering and LSEG Infrastructure teams.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Cloud SRE and Operations Specialist at London Stock Exchange GroupLondon Stock Exchange Group - Sri Lanka provides IT Infrastructure, Application and Service-desk Management Services to LSEG.As a member of the SRE and Cloud Operations team, I was responsible for:• Developing and delivering engineering stories to automate the London Stock Exchange Group's (LSEG) cloud platform, which supports multi-cloud environments on AWS, GCP, and Azure.• Utilizing Terraform, Python, Ansible, Jenkins, and GitLab as primary tools in the automation and development of the cloud platform.• Automating routine tasks to improve the self-service capability of the cloud platform through Servicenow integration.• Managing cloud platform operations tasks, including CSP account management, financial controls, network-related services, and governance.• Resolving incidents and managing problems to ensure the stability and reliability of the cloud platform.

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

Apigate Mint is a cutting-edge monetization platform that enables service providers to connect with customers at the right place and time.As a specialist in the Cloud Infrastructure and Automation Team working with the Apigate Mint Hub, I was responsible for:• Conducting research and development on new cloud deployment projects, including containerization of applications and automation of application release and deployment processes.• Upgrading Kubernetes clusters in the existing platform, collaborating with support teams to rollout upgrades to production, and updating deployment scripts.• Deploying and automating cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform for the Apigate Hub expansion project.• Designing and managing VPN solutions to ensure secure communication.• Conducting research and development activities to upgrade the security of current production setups.• Assisting in reviewing and upgrading deployment architectures of the current cloud-based production setups to meet industry standards.

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

As a member of the DevOps Support and Managed Services Team at WSO2.telco, I was responsible for the successful execution of the Apigate Mint Hub Upgrade project. I was stationed at Axiata HQ in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on rotation basis.Apigate Mint is a cutting-edge monetization platform that enables service providers to connect with customers at the right place and time.My key responsibilities included:• Automating routine operational activities to improve efficiency and reliability.• Engaging with and managing the operational and managed service aspects of the legacy hub infrastructure.• Implementing monitoring systems (Nagios, Stackdriver, X-Pack Watcher) in the new infrastructure to increase visibility and observability of the platform.• Configuring infrastructure using Ansible for efficient management.• Automating alerting and escalations for third-party applications within the hub ecosystem.• Assisting in the migration of data from the current AWS hub platform to the new GCP platform.• Working closely with the product and development teams to improve the platform infrastructure and create a manageable architecture.• Providing support for deployments and related activities.• Engaging with Axiata Mobile Network Operators (Celcom Malaysia, Dialog Sri Lanka, XL Indonesia, Smart Cambodia, Robi Bangladesh, Ncell Nepal) to understand their requirements and infrastructure changes, and helping them implement these changes in the production environment.

Sri Lanka

As an Intern - DevOps Engineer at LSEG Technology (formerly known as MilleniumIT), I was assigned to the Millennium Surveillance Project.My responsibilities included:• Automating and validating the non-functional requirements of the Surveillance system.• Implementing and conducting fault tolerance tests to ensure the robustness of the Surveillance system.• Utilizing Squish automation tool to automate C++ QT based front-end for both fault tolerance and non-functional testing.• Collaborating with the team to integrate test suites into Atlassian Bamboo.• Reporting and tracking bugs identified during testing via Atlassian Jira.• Assisting in the seamless integration of new features into the existing system for releases.• Supporting the resolution of Linux environment issues and working with Oracle DB as needed.

Bachelor’S Degree, Information Technology

Completed Bachelor of Information Technology Degree at the University of Colombo School of Computing.

Studied Up To G.C.E Advanced Level, Physical Sciences

Activities and Societies: Entered to St. Mary's College - Kegalle in the year 2003 and studied up to G.C.E. O/L (2008) in English Medium.