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Hi, I'm Rumesh Athukorala

DevOps consultant building reliable, secure AWS platforms for fast-moving product teams.

20+ years across fintech, media, and SaaS. Certified AWS expert focused on Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and real-time data systems that scale without surprises.

Featured Projects

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Multi-account AWS Landing Zone

Built a governed multi-account baseline with Control Tower and SSO, cutting provisioning time by 40% and standardizing guardrails for 20+ teams.

AWS Control Tower Organizations SSO Terraform
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GitLab CI for regulated fintech

Designed multi-tenant CI/CD with dynamic environments and shift-left security, improving lead time to production by 45% while meeting audit controls.

GitLab CI Docker ECS/EKS OPA
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Event streaming observability

Launched a Kafka-to-OpenSearch pipeline with Prometheus/Grafana, reducing alert noise by 60% and bringing MTTR under 15 minutes.

Kafka Prometheus Grafana OpenSearch

Serverless cost & reliability uplift

Re-architected a Lambda + API Gateway stack with async patterns and canary deploys, cutting costs by 32% and eliminating cold start incidents.

Lambda API Gateway DynamoDB Step Functions

Skills & Expertise

Cloud Platforms

  • AWS (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda)
  • S3, CloudFront, Route53
  • RDS, DynamoDB, SQS
  • IAM, Organizations, SSO
  • VPC, Transit Gateway

Infrastructure as Code

  • AWS CloudFormation
  • AWS CDK
  • Terraform
  • Ansible

CI/CD & Automation

  • GitLab CI/CD
  • Jenkins
  • ArgoCD

Container & Orchestration

  • Kubernetes (EKS)
  • Docker
  • Amazon ECS & Fargate
  • Helm Charts

Monitoring & Logging

  • CloudWatch & CloudWatch Logs
  • Grafana, Prometheus & Loki
  • ELK Stack
  • New Relic

Security & Compliance

  • AWS Security Hub
  • AWS Config & CloudTrail
  • Secrets Manager & KMS

Let's Connect

I'm always open to discussing cloud architecture, DevOps best practices, or opportunities to collaborate on innovative projects.

Advisory

Architecture reviews, reliability and cost audits, and platform roadmaps.

Hands-on builds

Landing zones, CI/CD, observability, and secure-by-default AWS foundations.

Enablement

Playbooks, runbooks, and training to help teams own their platform safely.