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Prageesha Galagedara_

DevOps-Engineer, Cloud-Engineer

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Auckland, New Zealand

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Google and AWS certified cloud engineer with 11+ years of experience in cloud computing and software development. I’ve had hands-on experience in deploying and maintaining production-grade Kubernetes platforms (Openshift, Google Kubernetes Engine, ARO) in the cloud, have provided technical solutions for clients to migrate their workload to cloud technologies, implemented and maintained GCP, AWS, Azure infrastructure and services, and have developed applications using PHP and web-based technologies.

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A Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect with 11+ years of experience in cloud computing and software development. During my job experience, I had hands-on experience in deploying and maintaining production-grade Kubernetes platforms (Openshift, Google Kubernetes Engine) in cloud for 7+ years, provide technical solutions for clients to migrate their workload to cloud technologies, implement and maintain AWS infrastructure and services, developing applications using PHP and web-based technologies.

education

Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Sri Lanka

2008 - 2012

Bachelor of Science (Honors) in Information Technology

University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka

2008 - 2012

Bachelor of Science (Computer/Mathematics/Statistics)

D.S.Senanayake College Colombo 07, Sri Lanka

1998 - 2006

GCE Advanced Level

  • Physics B
  • Combined Mathematics C
  • Chemistry C

employment

One NZ,New Zealand

April 2022 - Present

DevOps Tools & Automation Engineer

  • Setup and configure Redhat Openshift environments (Infra, Nonprod and PROD) of the company .
  • Developed infrastructure as code (IAC) using Terraform to create reproducible and scalable cloud environments in Azure.
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
  • Monitored ARO clusters with Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace and Splunk for proactive issue identification.
  • Use Gitops principles to maintain ARO cluster configurations using ArgoCD and ADO pipelines.
  • Promoted DevOps culture through training and mentorship.
  • Implemented security best practices and performed regular security audits.


Tools & Technologies:

  • DevOps
  • Azure
  • Azure Redhat Openshift
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Docker
  • Splunk
  • Dynatrace
  • ArgoCD
  • ADO
  • GitOps

2degrees Mobile,New Zealand

May 2020- April 2022

Seniore Cloud Engineer

  • Deploy drupal apps to Acquia Cloud environment
  • Design, implement and maintain AWS infrastructure and services
  • Configure Splunk for monitoring
  • Deploying apps to AWS using jenkins and cloudformation


Tools & Technologies:

  • DevOps
  • AWS
  • Acquia Cloud
  • Drupal
  • Cloudformation
  • Docker
  • Splunk

Techolution Pvt Ltd,Singapore

Jan 2019 - Dec 2019

DevOps Engineer

  • Consult clients to migrate to Google Cloud Platform
  • Design and deploy Google Kubernetes Engine clusters on GCP
  • Design, implement and maintain AWS infrastructure and services
  • Write Terraform code to deploy GKE resources
  • Deploy Prometheus and Grafana to monitor GKE clusters
  • Configure Stackdriver for monitoring
  • Deploying apps to kubernetes using jenkins and helm


Tools & Technologies:

  • DevOps
  • GCP
  • AWS
  • PAAS
  • GKE
  • Terraform
  • Prometheus
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Grafana
  • Stackdriver

DBS Bank Ltd, Singapore

March 2016 - Dec 2018

Cloud Engineer

  • Design and Architect four clusters of the PAAS (Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform) platform of the Bank.
  • Installing, configuring and maintaining PAAS (Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform) platform of the bank, Guide app team to deploy on the paas platform.
  • Detailed technical knowledge and hands-on experience of DevOps, Automation, Build Engineering and Configuration Management.
  • Developing scripts for builds, deployments, maintenance related tasks using Bash, Docker
  • Develop a monitoring solution for infra services using Prometheus,Alert manager, Grafana and ELK stack.
  • Develop a web application using Laravel framework to track platform users


Tools & Technologies:

  • DevOps
  • OpenShift
  • PAAS
  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • VMWare
  • RHEL
  • Bash
  • Git

Falconcity of Wonders LLC, Dubai

Sep 2015 - Dec 2015

IT Pragrammer

  • Plan, design, develop and maintain web applications
  • Develop the customer service portal of the company which manages 500+ villas and its contents.


Tools & Technologies:

  • PHP
  • Laravel Framework 4
  • MySQL
  • Apache
  • GIT
  • JQuery
  • Angular JS
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

Thinkcube Systems(Pvt) Ltd, Sri Lanka

Mar 2013 - Aug 2015

Software Engineer

  • Plan, coordinate and conduct multiple complex software engineering activities
  • Create and participate in software planning and estimating, status monitoring and reporting
  • Introduce new approaches, apply existing criteria in new ways and draw conclusions from comparative situations
  • Software design, prototyping and investigating
  • Software coding and unit testing, Systems integration and testing, Software documentation
  • Troubleshoot for program errors in existing systems
  • Make recommendations on the assessment of tools and software products
  • Manage and support other software engineering staff
  • Participate in mandated engineering reviews
  • Participate in the pursuit of new business by identifying opportunities and contributing to tender preparation
  • Participate in continuous improvement initiatives
  • Played major role in designing, developing and testing of learning management system for the largest telecommunication provider of Sri Lanka, Dialog Axiata (Pvt) Ltd
  • Design and develop corporate learning management system and lead the development team
  • Design and develop internal HR system


Tools & Technologies:

  • PHP
  • HTML
  • Zend Framework 2
  • Laravel
  • Framework 4
  • MongoDb
  • MySQL
  • Apache
  • Nginx
  • GIT
  • JQuery
  • Angular JS
  • Node JS
  • JavaScript
  • CSS
  • Docker
  • Doctrine ODM

SP Solutions (Pvt) Ltd,Sri Lanka

Jul 2012 - Mar 2013

Software Engineer

  • Design, develop and maintain web applications
  • Design and develop internal invoice generating system
  • Maintain and troubleshooting for program errors in existing applications


Tools & Technologies:

  • PHP
  • HTML
  • MySQL
  • Apache
  • JQuery
  • JavaScript
  • CSS
  • XML
  • JSON
  • PostgreSQL
  • Apache

Zihina Creations (Pvt) Ltd

May 2012 - Jul 2012

PHP Developer

  • Design and developed E-Marketing web application.
  • Bug fixing in existing web applications


Tools & Technologies:

  • PHP
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JQuery
  • JavaScript

general skills

GCP 80%

Kubernetes 85%

Terraform 75%

RedHat Openshift 80%

Docker 80%

git 85%

helm 80%

jenkins 70%

Prometheus/Grafana 80%

Linux/Unix 85%

Stackdriver 70%

Laravel Framework 75%

PHP 75%

JavaScript 65%

Angular JS 60%

CSS 60%

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