About Me

Hi, I’m Ravindu Nirmal Fernando, welcome to my personal website...

DevOps Engineer with over 5 years of industry experience with expertise in cloud computing and software engineering fields. Highly focused on improving the speed, reliability, productivity and quality of software engineering processes and teams. Has experience on setting up and leading the effort on adopting DevOps culture, practices and tools from ground up while managing and improving it within a SaaS startup.

Solid practical experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, CI/CD setups, NodeJS, Python, MongoDB and several other DevOps and software engineering tools/ technologies combined with academic experience in cloud computing. Interested in solving challenging problems, building impactful products & services with a sole focus on continuous self improvement. Big believer and follower of growth mindset.



Team Player
99%
Creativity
99%
Communication
99%
Quick Learner
99%
Work Experience

March 2022 - Present

Emojot Inc.

Tech Lead - DevOps

- Mainly focusing on driving and leading the DevOps, cloud security and compliance domains within the platform. Acting as the go-to person for deployment, configuration, maintenance, optimisation of the Emojot SaaS platform, infrastructure and other third-party tools and technologies

June 2019 - Present

Emojot Inc.

Associate Tech Lead

- Mainly focusing on driving and leading the DevOps, cloud security and compliance domains within the platform. Acting as the go-to person for deployment, configuration, maintenance, optimisation of the Emojot SaaS platform, infrastructure and other third-party tools and technologies

January 2018 - June 2019

Emojot Inc.

Software Engineer

- Mainly focused on driving DevOps domain within the platform. Acted as the go-to person for deployment, configuration, operating, maintenance and optimising of the Emojot SaaS platform application, infrastructure and other third-party tools and technologies.

January 2017 - December 2017

Emojot Inc.

Associate Software Engineer

- Developed front end and back end features and introduced DevOps practices and tools within Emojot SaaS platform.

June 2016 - December 2016

Emojot Inc.

Software Engineering Intern

- Developed backend and frontend features, fixing bugs of Emojot SaaS platform.

January 2015 - January 2016

SL2College (Guarantee) Limited

Project Manager (My Degree) - Web Development Team

- Created Sri Lanka's first online degree program search engine (MyDegree.lk) website. [This was a voluntary project]

Educational & Proffesional Qualifications
CKA
Certified Kubernetes Administrator

CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]

Successfully Completed.

2019 - 2022

Master's Degree
MSc in Computer Science specialized in Cloud Computing

University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

- Grade: Cumulative GPA: 3.745/4.0

2013 - 2016

Bachelor's Degree
BSc (Hons) in Software Engineering

University of Plymouth, United Kingdom

- 2nd Class Honours - Upper Division.

Let's get in touch
Email


hello@ravindunfernando.com