Tharindu Kalhara

Work history

From an early start at OREL IT to lecturing, DevRel engineering, and leading one of Sri Lanka's largest student tech events.

  1. N-able
    Apr 2026 – Present

    Cloud & DevOps Platforms Engineer Intern

    N-able

    Colombo

  2. IDET – Institute of Digital Engineering Technology
    Apr 2026 – Present

    Lecturer

    IDET – Institute of Digital Engineering Technology

    Sri Lanka

    CloudOps, Cloud Computing and AWS Lecturer at IDET.

  3. CertDirectory.io
    Dec 2025 – April 2026

    DevRel Engineer

    CertDirectory.io

    United Kingdom (remote)

    Teaching as an Engineer while delivering as a DevRel to bridge the gap between skills & CertDirectory's platform, globally.

    • Conducted workshops, meetups, and sessions
    • Attended community events and spoke
    • Initiated client relationships and business partnerships
    • Helped with technical infrastructure documentation and training
    • Company outreach and marketing
  4. Sep 2025 – Nov 2025

    Lecturer

    Ideacade – Institute of Skills to Income

    Conducted a course program on IT & GenAI.

  5. OREL IT
    Apr 2022 – Jun 2023

    Associate

    OREL IT

    Galle

    Began this role right after A/Ls, before entering university (1.5 years full-time).

    • Contributed to key projects including RDLF, RDLF8H, and RDLFV2
    • Maintained project quality above 95% while exceeding monthly performance targets by over 200%

Tools & Technologies

The stack I reach for across cloud infrastructure, DevOps tooling, and application development.

Cloud Platforms & Services

AWSAzure

AWS: EC2, EKS, ECS, ECR, S3, Route 53, ALB, NLB, NAT Gateway, EBS, EFS, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, SNS, SQS, Lambda, CloudFormation. Azure: Virtual Machines, VNets, Storage Accounts, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Active Directory.

DevOps, IaC & Containers

DockerKubernetesHelmKustomizeTerraformAnsibleLinuxBashArgoCDGitOpsCluster API (CAPI)Mirantis k0sMirantis k0rdent

CI/CD & Version Control

GitGitHubGitLabGitHub ActionsJenkinsArgo CDFluxCDSonarQube

Backend & Database

JavaNode.jsSQLMongoDBDynamoDBREST APIs

Frontend & Web Technologies

JavaScriptHTMLCSSNginx

Monitoring & Logging

PrometheusGrafanaKialiCloudWatch

Methodologies

AgileKanban

Certifications

Projects Completed

Five proof-of-concept builds covering infrastructure as code, GitOps, Kubernetes, and observability, start to finish.