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  <metadata>
    <name>Ashen Gunaratne</name>
    <address>
      <street>63/1 St. Mary's Road</street>
      <city>Mount Lavinia</city>
      <country isocode="LKA">Sri Lanka</country>
      <zip>10370</zip>
    </address>
    <contact>
      <mobile href="tel:+94-77-429-9712">(+94) 77 429 9712</mobile>
      <email href="mailto:mail@ashenm.dev">mail@ashenm.dev</email>
    </contact>
    <sites>
      <site name="LinkedIn" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashenm/">linkedin.com/in/ashenm</site>
      <site name="Launchpad" href="https://launchpad.net/~ashenm">launchpad.net/~ashenm</site>
      <site name="GitHub" href="https://github.com/ashenm">github.com/ashenm</site>
    </sites>
  </metadata>

  <section>
    <title>experience</title>
    <record>
      <title>Secure Agility</title>
      <subtitle>Lead DevOps Engineer</subtitle>
      <summary>Lead cross-SaaS integration architect; Design, author, and oversea custom integrations and workflows interconnecting multiple SaaS services.</summary>
      <duration start="2023-08-01T00:00:00Z" end="" />
      <location>
        <city>Sydney</city>
        <country isocode="AUS">Australia</country>
      </location>
      <keywords>
        <keyword>Alembic</keyword>
        <keyword>Autotask</keyword>
        <keyword>Azure DevOps Services</keyword>
        <keyword>Azure</keyword>
        <keyword>Ekahuau</keyword>
        <keyword>Float</keyword>
        <keyword>GitHub</keyword>
        <keyword>ITGlue</keyword>
        <keyword>LogicMonitor</keyword>
        <keyword>PowerBI</keyword>
        <keyword>Python</keyword>
        <keyword>Terraform</keyword>
      </keywords>
    </record>
    <record>
      <title>Singlife</title>
      <subtitle>Technical Lead</subtitle>
      <summary>Mobile backend tech lead; Design, author, and review RESTful API specifications and moderate related infrastructure cohering to compliance and security statues.</summary>
      <duration start="2022-04-04T00:00:00Z" end="2023-07-31T00:00:00Z" />
      <location>
        <city>Singapore</city>
        <country isocode="SGP">Singapore</country>
      </location>
      <keywords>
        <keyword>Anti-Corruption Layer</keyword>
        <keyword>AWS</keyword>
        <keyword>AWS CDK</keyword>
        <keyword>Jest</keyword>
        <keyword>Node.js</keyword>
        <keyword>Quantum Databases</keyword>
        <keyword>RESTful APIs</keyword>
        <keyword>Slack Bots</keyword>
        <keyword>TeamCity</keyword>
        <keyword>TypeScript</keyword>
      </keywords>
    </record>
    <record>
      <title>Railsbank</title>
      <subtitle>Associate Technical Lead</subtitle>
      <summary>
        BaaS integrations tech lead; Plan, design, and oversea regulated provider infrastructure integrations conforming to compliance and security statutes.
      </summary>
      <duration start="2021-12-28T00:00:00Z" end="2022-03-28T00:00:00Z" />
      <location>
        <city>London</city>
        <country isocode="GBR">United Kingdom</country>
      </location>
      <keywords>
        <keyword>AWS</keyword>
        <keyword>CucumberJS</keyword>
        <keyword>Elastic Stack (ELK)</keyword>
        <keyword>GitLab CI/CD</keyword>
        <keyword>GraphQL</keyword>
        <keyword>Jest</keyword>
        <keyword>Kubernetes</keyword>
        <keyword>mTLS</keyword>
        <keyword>Node.js</keyword>
        <keyword>OpenPGP</keyword>
        <keyword>RESTful APIs</keyword>
        <keyword>Slack Bots</keyword>
        <keyword>Terraform</keyword>
        <keyword>TypeScript</keyword>
      </keywords>
    </record>
    <record>
      <title>Railsbank</title>
      <subtitle>Engineer</subtitle>
      <summary>
        BaaS integrations engineer; Design, author, and review regulated provider infrastructure integrations conforming to compliance and security statutes.
      </summary>
      <duration start="2020-12-28T00:00:00Z" end="2021-12-28T00:00:00Z" />
      <location>
        <city>London</city>
        <country isocode="GBR">United Kingdom</country>
      </location>
      <keywords>
        <keyword>AWS</keyword>
        <keyword>CucumberJS</keyword>
        <keyword>Elastic Stack (ELK)</keyword>
        <keyword>GitLab CI/CD</keyword>
        <keyword>GraphQL</keyword>
        <keyword>Jest</keyword>
        <keyword>Kubernetes</keyword>
        <keyword>mTLS</keyword>
        <keyword>Node.js</keyword>
        <keyword>OpenPGP</keyword>
        <keyword>RESTful APIs</keyword>
        <keyword>Slack Bots</keyword>
        <keyword>Terraform</keyword>
        <keyword>TypeScript</keyword>
      </keywords>
    </record>
    <record>
      <title>Al Iman Schools</title>
      <subtitle>Educator</subtitle>
      <summary>
        Educator for computer science; Responsible for designing, implementing, and delivering custom tailored curriculums for key stages three, four, and five with emphasis on art of programming and integrating computer science in the domain of other subjects.
      </summary>
      <duration start="2020-10-01T00:00:00Z" end="2020-12-31T00:00:00Z" />
      <location>
        <city>Colombo</city>
        <country isocode="LKA">Sri Lanka</country>
      </location>
      <keywords>
        <keyword>AsciiDoc</keyword>
        <keyword>CSS</keyword>
        <keyword>HTML</keyword>
        <keyword>JavaScript</keyword>
        <keyword>Python</keyword>
        <keyword>PyUnit</keyword>
      </keywords>
    </record>
    <record>
      <title>British College of Applied Studies</title>
      <subtitle>Lecturer</subtitle>
      <summary>
        Instructor for <![CDATA[<i>]]>Pearson BTEC HND<![CDATA[</i>]]> in Computing; Responsible for level 5 specialist units: <![CDATA[<i>]]>Computer Systems Architecture<![CDATA[</i>]]>, <![CDATA[<i>]]>Data Structures and Algorithms<![CDATA[</i>]]>, <![CDATA[<i>]]>Discrete Mathematics<![CDATA[</i>]]>, <![CDATA[<i>]]>Network Management<![CDATA[</i>]]>, and <![CDATA[<i>]]>Network Security<![CDATA[</i>]]>.
      </summary>
      <duration start="2018-07-01T00:00:00Z" end="2019-07-31T00:00:00Z" />
      <location>
        <city>Colombo</city>
        <country isocode="LKA">Sri Lanka</country>
      </location>
      <keywords>
        <keyword>C</keyword>
        <keyword>Firewalls</keyword>
        <keyword>IDS/IPS Systems</keyword>
        <keyword>JavaScript</keyword>
        <keyword>Python</keyword>
      </keywords>
    </record>
    <record>
      <title>Exetel PTY Limited</title>
      <subtitle>Network Engineer</subtitle>
      <summary>Govern, implement, and troubleshoot real-time traffic steering policies to ensure critical application delivery, value-added services, and user quality of experience driving profitability of key deliverables in the digital data &amp; device space in terms of revenue, users, traffic across 30 Gb/s data link.</summary>
      <duration start="2016-10-01T00:00:00Z" end="2017-02-01T00:00:00Z" />
      <location>
        <city>Sydney</city>
        <country isocode="AUS">Australia</country>
      </location>
      <keywords>
        <keyword>Firewalls</keyword>
        <keyword>IPv4</keyword>
        <keyword>RADIUS Servers</keyword>
        <keyword>SNMP</keyword>
        <keyword>TCP/UPD</keyword>
        <keyword>VoIP</keyword>
      </keywords>
    </record>
    <record>
      <title>IKON Systems (Private) Limited</title>
      <subtitle>Chief Information Officer</subtitle>
      <summary>Direct and manage computing and information technology strategic plans, policies, programs, schedules, and responsible for advertising network’s scalability, security, and capacity-planning.</summary>
      <duration start="2016-01-01T00:00:00Z" end="2016-10-01T00:00:00Z" />
      <location>
        <city>Colombo</city>
        <country isocode="LKA">Sri Lanka</country>
      </location>
      <keywords>
        <keyword>AWS</keyword>
        <keyword>Systemd</keyword>
        <keyword>HAProxy</keyword>
      </keywords>
    </record>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>research interests</title>
    <list>
      <item>cybersecurity</item>
      <item>digital forensics</item>
      <item>botnets</item>
      <item>computer science education</item>
      <item>distance learning</item>
      <item>collaborative learning</item>
      <item>computer-assisted instruction</item>
    </list>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>education</title>
    <record>
      <title>Harvard College</title>
      <subtitle>Bachelor of Liberal Arts (A.L.B.)</subtitle>
      <transcript>https://cdn.glitch.com/bddbe95a-e8d0-4ea0-8afc-88c93c2ebd46%2Falb-admission.png</transcript>
      <summary>Computer Science; GPA 3.9 (as of May 2018)<![CDATA[<br />]]>Related studies in linear algebra, statistics and probability, and finance.</summary>
      <duration start="2017-06-01T00:00:00Z" end="2021-09-01T00:00:00Z" />
      <location>
        <city>Massachusetts</city>
        <country isocode="USA">United States</country>
      </location>
    </record>
    <record>
      <title>Stanford University</title>
      <subtitle>MOOC</subtitle>
      <transcript>https://verify.lagunita.stanford.edu/SOA/c5ef398d5e164b00afa880709db10af5</transcript>
      <summary>Studies in enterprise-level web application deployment with focus on security, reliability, scalability, and cross-browser support.</summary>
      <duration start="2017-10-01T00:00:00Z" end="2017-11-01T00:00:00Z" />
      <location>
        <city>California</city>
        <country isocode="USA">United States</country>
      </location>
    </record>
    <record>
      <title>Harvard University</title>
      <subtitle>MOOC</subtitle>
      <transcript>https://cs50.harvard.edu/certificates/dd2b57d7-ac97-4c02-bc8d-0a98af1ab68f</transcript>
      <summary>Studies in computer science for real-world domains of biology, cryptography, finance, forensics, and gaming.</summary>
      <duration start="2015-01-01T00:00:00Z" end="2015-12-01T00:00:00Z" />
      <location>
        <city>Massachusetts</city>
        <country isocode="USA">United States</country>
      </location>
    </record>
    <record>
      <title>Université Catholique de Louvain</title>
      <subtitle>MOOC</subtitle>
      <transcript>https://courses.edx.org/certificates/7b4124b616c0475eb451bc7348252c92</transcript>
      <summary>Studies in major programming concepts, techniques, and paradigms in a unified framework.</summary>
      <duration start="2015-01-01T00:00:00Z" end="2015-11-01T00:00:00Z" />
      <location>
        <city>Charleroi</city>
        <country isocode="BEL">Belgium</country>
      </location>
    </record>
    <record>
      <title>The University of British Columbia</title>
      <subtitle>MOOC</subtitle>
      <transcript>https://courses.edx.org/certificates/e23bace355ab497f9388ac6d0562525e</transcript>
      <summary>Studies in computation as a tool for systematic problem solving in non-computer-science disciplines.</summary>
      <duration start="2015-01-01T00:00:00Z" end="2015-10-01T00:00:00Z" />
      <location>
        <city>Vancouver</city>
        <country isocode="CAN">Canada</country>
      </location>
    </record>
    <record>
      <title>Lakeland Inter-American School</title>
      <subtitle>Pearson Edexcel AS Level</subtitle>
      <transcript>https://courses.edx.org/certificates/e23bace355ab497f9388ac6d0562525e</transcript>
      <duration start="2014-06-01T00:00:00Z" end="2015-07-01T00:00:00Z" />
      <location>
        <city>Colombo</city>
        <country isocode="LKA">Sri Lanka</country>
      </location>
    </record>
    <record>
      <title>Lakeland Inter-American School</title>
      <subtitle>Pearson Edexcel Ordinary Level</subtitle>
      <transcript>https://cdn.glitch.com/bddbe95a-e8d0-4ea0-8afc-88c93c2ebd46%2Folevel.jpg</transcript>
      <duration start="2011-03-01T00:00:00Z" end="2014-06-01T00:00:00Z" />
      <location>
        <city>Colombo</city>
        <country isocode="LKA">Sri Lanka</country>
      </location>
    </record>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>projects</title>
    <record>
      <title>Singlife's BaaS provider reverse-engeering</title>
      <list>
        <item>Associate technical lead for Railsbank replacement with in-house BaaS service</item>
        <item>Coarchitectured in-house replacement service to extactly replicate Railsbank functionalities</item>
        <item>Designed and authored the state machines for transaction execution - interledger, manual credit, and manual debit transactions</item>
        <item>Designed and authored DBS outbound and inbound integration connectors to facilitate Fast and PayNow payments and ICN notifications</item>
      </list>
    </record>
    <record>
      <title>Habitto Money GraphQL and REST backend</title>
      <list>
        <item>Lead consultant for setting up initial backend monorepo and related pipelines</item>
        <item>Setup initial Nx monorepo, BitBucket OpenID runner authentication, and inital Terraform setup</item>
        <item>Later, consultant and lead developer for authoring fully automated self provisioning review environments using BitBucket CI/CD with multiple deployables</item>
        <item>Lead developer for authoring a seamless custom in-house replacement solution for Fivetran</item>
      </list>
    </record>
    <record>
      <title>Dealt Australia</title>
      <list>
        <item>Lead architect for migrating existing customer-hosted Hyperledger Fabric to ImmuDB</item>
        <item>Automated all application deployments and configuration management using AWS CodeDeploy and BitBucket CI/CD</item>
        <item>Migrated all existing infrastructure to use IaC for management and provisioning and added enforcement checks to prevent manual infastructure manipulations</item>
        <item>Revamped virtual cloud networking to incorporate public, private, and NAT subnets and redesigned the microservice entrypoints and inter-service communication</item>
        <item>Standardized logging, monitoring, and alerting</item>
      </list>
    </record>
    <record>
      <title>CaterCare Australia</title>
      <list>
        <item>Lead consultant and developer for standardizing GitHub developer workflows</item>
        <item>Wrote a custom extensible GitHub Action to facilitate auto-labelling and auto-approving for a specific set of pull-requests obeying a predefined ruleset that require no reviews</item>
        <item>Set up branch/tag protection rules, code owners, secret scanning, and repo properties to standardize merging and pull-request approvals</item>
      </list>
    </record>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>honors and awards</title>
    <record>
      <title>HackerRank</title>
      <subtitle>Gold Honours - Problem Solving</subtitle>
      <transcript>https://www.hackerrank.com/ashenm</transcript>
      <summary>Gold honours, five-star proficiency rating, in the domains of algorithms and data structures.</summary>
    </record>
    <record>
      <title>HackerRank</title>
      <subtitle>Gold Honours - Python</subtitle>
      <transcript>https://www.hackerrank.com/ashenm</transcript>
      <summary>Gold honours, five-star proficiency rating, in the domain of Python subsuming all language-supported paradigms.</summary>
    </record>
    <record>
      <title>HackerRank</title>
      <subtitle>Gold Honours - SQL</subtitle>
      <transcript>https://www.hackerrank.com/ashenm</transcript>
      <summary>Gold honours, five-star proficiency rating, in the domains of SQL subsuming all language-supported paradigms.</summary>
    </record>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>licenses &amp; certifications</title>
    <record>
      <title>HashiCorp</title>
      <subtitle>IaC Automation</subtitle>
      <transcript>https://www.credly.com/badges/e03e81aa-dc81-42db-8076-324f350d59e7</transcript>
    </record>
    <record>
      <title>HackerRank</title>
      <subtitle>Python</subtitle>
      <transcript>https://www.hackerrank.com/certificates/81302342494c</transcript>
    </record>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>academic service</title>
    <record>
      <title>freeCodeCamp</title>
      <subtitle>Curriculum Contributor</subtitle>
      <summary>Authore guides and specimen solutions for freeCodeCamp certification program challenges on algorithm design.</summary>
      <duration start="2017-02-01T00:00:00Z" end="" />
    </record>
    <record>
      <title>edX</title>
      <subtitle>Content Support Associate</subtitle>
      <summary>Validate and alter qualitative attributes of uploaded course materials to meet edX guidelines.</summary>
      <duration start="2016-12-01T00:00:00Z" end="" />
    </record>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>community service</title>
    <record>
      <title>United Nations</title>
      <subtitle>Volunteer Task Force</subtitle>
      <duration start="2015-01-01T00:00:00Z" end="" />
    </record>
  </section>

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