Madeesha Fernando

Senior Platform Engineer

Greater Melbourne Area

About

Experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of expertise in designing and automating cloud infrastructure solutions. Skilled in AWS, CloudFormation, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes(EKS, GKE). Proven track record in improving scalability, reducing deployment times, cutting cloud costs, and maintaining high operational standards. Experienced in building and supporting managed services platforms, driving continuous improvement, and working with cross-functional and remote teams to deliver reliable solutions. Strong in providing on-call support, mentoring engineers, and aligning projects with business goals and compliance requirements. Expertise in infrastructure as code, automation, and cloud technologies.

Experience

  • Senior DevOps Engineer at Tally Group
    Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

    Transferred from Alinta Energy after acquisition of the billing platform. Leading the migration of core billing systems to AWS, managing both production and non-production environments. Optimized cloud cost, implemented monitoring with Grafana, and drove DevOps culture through mentorship and cross-functional collaboration.

  • DevOps Engineer at Alinta Energy
    Jan 2020 - Oct 2024 · 4 yrs 10 mos

    Designed and built AWS infrastructure from the ground up for Alinta’s billing platform. Led automation with Terraform, CloudFormation, and GitLab CI. Implemented Kubernetes security and scaling strategies, including network policies, RBAC, HPA, and Cluster Autoscaling. Automated operational tasks and enabled observability with Datadog.

  • WSO2 (2 yrs 8 mos)
    • Senior Cloud Engineer
      Jan 2019 - Nov 2019 · 11 mos

      Delivered and managed SaaS solutions using Kubernetes and GKE. Built an internal app hosting platform for Docker-based apps. Automated deployments with Jenkins, wrote Terraform and Puppet modules, and supported hybrid/on-prem deployments. Contributed to monitoring with Prometheus and supported global clients.

    • Cloud Engineer
      Apr 2017 - Dec 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Software Intern at hSenid Mobile Solutions (Pvt) Ltd
    Oct 2015 - Apr 2016 · 7 mos

    Developed a full-stack task platform using React.js, Java (Spring Boot), and MySQL. Delivered secure, user-centric features within a 6-month internship.