Navanjane Kindelpitiya

DevOps Enthusiast

Building scalable infrastructure and automating deployment pipelines

About Me

Learn more about my background and experience

Results-driven DevOps Engineer with 3+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure automation and container orchestration across AWS and Azure platforms. Proven expertise in Kubernetes (EKS, AKS), Docker, Terraform, and ArgoCD for building scalable, resilient systems. Skilled in designing CI/CD pipelines using Tekton, Jenkins, and GitLab CI/CD, with strong Linux administration capabilities in RHEL environments. Successfully led platform modernization initiatives achieving 90% efficiency improvements and implemented chaos engineering frameworks to enhance system reliability. Experienced in production support, infrastructure monitoring (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana), and delivering cloud solutions for international clients. Focused on implementing secure, automated, and cost-effective infrastructure following DevOps best practices.

4+
Years Experience
50+
Projects Completed
99.9%
Uptime Achieved

Skills & Technologies

Tools and technologies I work with

Cloud & Container Orchestration

AWSAzureKubernetesDockerAmazon EKSAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Infrastructure as Code & Configuration Management

TerraformAnsibleHelmKyverno

CI/CD & DevOps Tools

TektonJenkinsGitLabGitHub ActionsArgoCD

Programming & Scripting

PythonBash

Version Control & Collaboration

GitGitLabGitHub

Operating Systems

LinuxRed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Monitoring & Observability

ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)PrometheusGrafana

Work Experience

My professional journey and career progression

DevOps Engineer

July 2023 - Present
IFS R&D
Sri Lanka
  • Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for comprehensive software testing workflows, including UI test automation, improving deployment efficiency and code quality across development teams
  • Managed and maintained GitLab runners on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), ensuring high availability and optimal performance of continuous integration infrastructure
  • Integrated Litmus Chaos testing tool into shared platform infrastructure to conduct controlled failure experiments and validate system resilience under various failure scenarios
  • Deployed and configured chaos testing framework using Azure Kubernetes Service, Helm charts, and Kyverno policies to enforce governance and security standards
  • Led platform modernization project to migrate legacy build systems to Tekton Pipelines, achieving 90% improvement in build efficiency and reducing deployment cycle times
  • Implemented cloud-native CI/CD solutions using Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, and Kustomize to automate application deployments and infrastructure management
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams across Quality Engineering and Platform Operations to establish DevOps best practices and improve software delivery lifecycle
  • Integrated SonarQube into CI/CD pipelines to automate code quality analysis and security scanning, maintaining quality gates to enforce coding standards and prevent technical debt
AzureKubernetesAKSTektonGitLab CI/CDArgoCDHelmKustomizeLitmus ChaosKyvernoSonarQube

DevOps Engineer

Feb 2023 - June 2023
MDO Global
Sri Lanka
  • Designed, deployed, and managed AWS cloud infrastructure including EKS, EC2, S3, VPC and networking components to support production workloads
  • Migrated existing manually managed AWS infrastructure to Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), improving consistency, scalability, and auditability
  • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Bitbucket Pipelines for automated testing and application deployments
  • Performed Amazon EKS cluster upgrades, node group maintenance, and routine operational tasks to ensure platform stability and security
  • Participated in on-call/roster support, troubleshooting and resolving production incidents to maintain high availability and performance
  • Collaborated with development and operations teams to improve deployment reliability and cloud best practices
AWSEKSEC2S3VPCTerraformBitbucket Pipelines

Independent Contractor - DevOps

Feb 2023 - June 2023
Mitra Innovation
Sri Lanka
  • Established and configured development, staging, and production environments on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.0 for a Senegal-based Internet Service Provider, ensuring consistent and secure infrastructure across all environments
  • Implemented Ansible playbooks for automated configuration management and infrastructure provisioning, reducing manual deployment efforts and minimizing configuration drift
  • Deployed and configured ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for centralized logging and monitoring of WSO2 API Manager, enabling real-time log analysis and troubleshooting capabilities
  • Set up infrastructure monitoring solution using Prometheus and Grafana to track system performance metrics, resource utilization, and alert on critical thresholds
  • Deployed MySQL InnoDB Cluster with high availability architecture using HAProxy for load balancing and Keepalived for failover management, configuring write and read replicas to ensure database redundancy and optimized read performance
RHELAnsibleELK StackPrometheusGrafanaMySQLHAProxyKeepalivedWSO2

Associate Engineer

May 2022 - Feb 2023
Mitra Innovation
Sri Lanka
  • Delivered DevOps and cloud infrastructure solutions for multiple international clients across UK, USA, and Australian markets, ensuring compliance with regional requirements and best practices
  • Managed and optimized AWS cloud infrastructure including Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), EC2 instances, S3 storage, SQS messaging queues, and Lambda functions for scalable application deployments
  • Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for PHP-based microservices architecture, automating build, test, and deployment processes to accelerate software delivery cycles
  • Provisioned and managed AWS development and staging environments using Terraform Infrastructure as Code, ensuring consistent and reproducible infrastructure across multiple environments
  • Provided on-call support for production systems, troubleshooting incidents, resolving critical issues, and maintaining system uptime and reliability
AWSEKSEC2S3SQSLambdaTerraformCI/CDPHP

Featured Projects

Showcasing my DevOps and infrastructure projects

Platform Infrastructure as Code

Production-ready EKS cluster infrastructure on AWS using Terraform with automated CI/CD pipeline for infrastructure deployment and management.

Key Achievements:

  • Deployed multi-AZ VPC with public/private subnets for high availability
  • Automated infrastructure deployment with DAG-based CI/CD pipeline
  • Implemented security best practices with encrypted S3 state, DynamoDB locking, and KMS encryption
  • Configured Kubernetes v1.34 with managed node groups and essential addons (CoreDNS, kube-proxy, VPC CNI)
TerraformAWS EKSGitHub ActionsKubernetesVPCIAM

Certifications

Professional certifications and achievements

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Cloud Native Computing Foundation

2024

GitLab Certified Git Associate

GitLab

2024

CCNA Routing and Switching

Cisco

2023

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Contact Information

Location

Sri Lanka

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