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Cloud & DevOps Engineer // Melbourne, AU
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AWS Certified Developer โ€“ Associate (2025)
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โœ“ Reduced deployment time by 70% in production
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โ— Open to Cloud, DevOps & Platform Engineer roles
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Yas
Herath.
Cloud & DevOps Engineer โ€” Building infrastructure that ships.
Cut deployment time by 70% ยท AWS Certified ยท 3+ years experience

The Story

As a PC gamer growing up, I wasn't just playing games โ€” I was pulling machines apart and figuring out how everything worked. That obsession with how computers tick never left me. It just evolved.

Today I'm a Cloud & DevOps Engineer based in Melbourne, with 3+ years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and automating cloud infrastructure on AWS. I specialise in building resilient, scalable systems using Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native AWS services โ€” with a strong security-first mindset.

I don't just keep the lights on. I eliminate manual deployments, build infrastructure engineering teams' trust at scale, and I've cut deployment time by 70% in production environments.

// Published researcher ยท MDPI Cryptography Journal (2022)

3+ years experience
70% deploy time cut
AWS certified developer
100% IaC โ€” no console

Skills & Tools

Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS Terraform EC2 VPC S3 RDS IAM ALB Route53 Lambda
CI/CD & Automation
GitHub Actions AWS CodePipeline CodeDeploy CloudWatch SNS
Containers & DevOps
Docker ECS Linux Bash
Languages & Frameworks
Python TypeScript React Django Angular Node.js
Security & Compliance
IAM Least Privilege NACLs Security Groups S3 Encryption VPC Isolation
Practices & Methods
GitOps IaC Agile/Scrum Code Review TDD REST APIs

Experience

Software Engineer - DevOps & Full Stack
Jul 2025 โ€“ Dec 2025
Unify-Tech Solutions Contract ยท Melbourne ยท Remote
  • Managed and maintained automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, reducing manual release steps and improving deployment reliability across cloud environments.
  • Built and maintained production React/TypeScript applications in an Agile team, participating in sprint planning, architecture discussions, and peer code reviews.
  • Integrated AWS-hosted backend REST APIs, collaborating on API contracts, authentication, and service reliability to deliver seamless full-stack experiences.
GitHub Actions AWS CodePipeline React TypeScript AWS
QA & Validation Technician
Sep 2024 โ€“ Jul 2025
Ingenico Full-time ยท Melbourne ยท On-site
  • Executed functional, system, and regression testing on large-scale POS payment hardware and software, maintaining a defect escape rate below 0.1%.
  • Collaborated with engineering teams on hardware/software integration testing in a regulated payment systems environment, minimising system downtime through rapid fault diagnosis.
Hardware Testing Network Diagnostics Payment Systems
Cloud Software Engineer
Apr 2022 โ€“ May 2024
Future Labs Full-time ยท Sri Lanka
  • Designed end-to-end CI/CD pipelines on AWS (CodePipeline, CodeDeploy, GitHub Actions) โ€” reduced release cycle by ~50%, eliminating all manual deployment steps.
  • Provisioned production-grade AWS infrastructure with Terraform (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC) โ€” modular IaC, remote state (S3 + DynamoDB locking), strict dev/staging/prod separation.
  • Optimised AWS CodePipeline workflows with parallel execution stages โ€” cutting deployment time by 70% in production environments.
  • Built cross-platform web apps with Angular, RxJS, and TypeScript โ€” reducing customer manual workload by 25%.
  • Designed and maintained RESTful APIs using Django REST Framework and PHP Laravel for internal and third-party integrations.
Terraform AWS CodePipeline GitHub Actions EC2 S3 RDS IAM VPC Docker Angular Django
Software Engineering Trainee
Aug 2021 โ€“ Jan 2022
99x Internship ยท Remote
  • Implemented and optimised TypeORM queries โ€” reduced application latency by 40% and improved overall system performance.
  • Designed and deployed serverless automation with AWS Lambda and CloudWatch Events, using Cron expressions to trigger scheduled backend tasks.
  • Designed efficient database schemas to support high-performance, responsive web applications.
AWS Lambda CloudWatch TypeORM Angular TypeScript

What I've Built

PROJECT_001
Production AWS Infrastructure โ€” Zero Console Challenge
Built a complete production-grade AWS environment using 100% Terraform โ€” never touching the AWS console once. Designed for high availability across two availability zones with security-first architecture.
VPC with public + private subnets across 2 AZs
ALB routing to EC2 in private subnets โ€” zero direct internet access
S3 buckets with encryption, no public access
IAM roles with strict least-privilege policies
Remote state management: S3 + DynamoDB locking
100% Infrastructure as Code โ€” fully reproducible
Terraform AWS VPC EC2 ALB S3 IAM DynamoDB
PROJECT_002
CI/CD Pipeline โ€” Auto Deploy to AWS
GitHub Actions pipeline that automatically deploys to the Terraform infrastructure on every git push. Proving end-to-end ownership: build the infra, then automate the delivery.
GitHub Actions triggered on every push to main
Automated testing โ†’ build โ†’ deploy to EC2
Slack notifications on deployment status
Rollback on failure
GitHub Actions AWS CodeDeploy EC2 Terraform Docker

Education & Certifications

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BSc (Hons) Computer Engineering
University of Peradeniya
GPA 3.6 / 4.0 ยท Washington Accord Accredited
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Published Researcher
"On Advances of Lattice-Based Cryptographic Schemes and Their Implementations"
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Associate ยท 2025
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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
In Progress

Let's Build Something.

I'm open to Cloud Engineer, DevOps Engineer, and Platform Engineer roles in Melbourne or remote. If you're scaling a cloud platform and need an engineer who takes full ownership โ€” let's talk.

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