About
Working as a Senior Technical Lead at 99X working on the Microsoft stack and having 9+ years of industry experience, Kasun is an Azure Cloud and Azure DevOps enthusiasts and contributes to few Open-Source projects on GitHub.
Developer & Designer.
- Birthday: 8 August 1988
- Website: kasunkodagoda.com
- Phone: (+94)717 673 839
- City: Gampaha, Sri Lanka
- Age: 36
- Degree: Bachelor of Science
- Email: [email protected]
- Freelance: Available
Outside of work, He likes to contribute to open-source projects on GitHub, mainly focusing on Azure Pipelines Extensions. OWASP ZAP Scan, Slack Notification task are some of his popular Azure DevOps extension. Kasun is also a blogger where he writes about technical topics at K2V Academy, occasional gamer and creates YouTube videos on Azure, Azure DevOps and Gaming and loves creating Architectural and Interior Design visualizations when he finds time.
Skills
An individual with high caliber technical skills that is acquired and mastered as a part of a high-performance engineering team working on financial software domain with Scandinavian and US ISVs. Some of the code skills include
Resume
Kasun Kodagoda graduated with a first-class Degree in Information & Communication Technology. A Dynamic Individual Technical Depth, Collaboration, Team Work and Innovation. Working as a part of the R&D Team based on Sri Lanka working with ISVs in Norwegian Region. Experienced in Agile Methodologies with high caliber technical silks
Sumary
Kasun Kodagoda
Passionate and innovative developer with 9+ years of experience in the industry building highly scalable distributed business applications. With hands-on experience in cloud and web technologies with expertise in DevOps and Security practices.
- Gampaha, Sri Lanka
- (+94)717 673 839
- [email protected]
Education
Bachelor of Science in Information & Communication Technology
2010 - 2015
Rajarata University of Sri Lanka
Completed the Bachelor of Science degree with a 3.72/4.00 GPA while contributing to many academic and non-academic activities as well as the tech community.
GCE Advanced Level - Biology Stream
2000 - 2007
Bandaranayake College, Gampaha
Studied for my Advanced Level examination in Biology Stream. Team leader of the IT Quiz team and represented in the Finals of IT Quiz 2006 conducted by UCSC (University of Colombo School of Computing)
Honors & Awards
Excellence Award for Outstanding Initiative Contribution 2016
99X, Sri Lanka
Excellence Award for Outstanding Initiative Contribution 2017
99X, Sri Lanka
Technology Committee Award for Driving Technology Road-map to Practice 2018
99X, Sri Lanka
Excellence for Technology Leadership 2019 - Runner-up
99X, Sri Lanka
Professional Experience
Senior Technical Lead
2015 - Present
99x, Sri Lanka
- Leading the DevOps movement within the product teams, with special focus on Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Overall product quality.
- Subject matter expertise on Azure DevOps and Azure. Using industry best practices for creating build and release pipelines, Infrastructure as Code with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, Azure resource management etc.
- Working as part of a 35 member team and leading a 6 member sub-team working on the Platform services for Adra Financial Close software suite.
- Working with ASP.Net Core, C#, Azure Cloud Services, Azure DevOps, Identity Server, SAML 2.0, Aurelia, TypeScript, Dynamics 365, Power Platform and other technologies to implement the Identity and Access Management platform and supporting APIs.
- Direct engagement with Scandinavian and US customers (ISV) for technical and non-technical discussions and decision making.
Founder, Developer and Designer
2012 - Present
K2V Software Solutions
- K2V Software Solutions is an IT solutions provider specializes in creating provide functional & elegant Mobile App and Web Development for our clients.
- Designing and developing Web Applications, Web Designs, Mobile Applications.
- Specialized in Windows Phone Development, has experience developing over 15 applications available on Windows Phone Store and Windows Store.
Professional Certifications
AZ-400 - Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions
2018
Microsoft
- Design a DevOps Strategy
- Implement DevOps Development Processes
- Implement Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery
- Implement Dependency Management, Application Infrastructure and Continuous Feedback
Testimonials
Amila De Silva
Senior Software Architect, 99x
Kasun is widely regarded as a very dependable techy with a strong work ethic who is self-motivated, driven, and obsessed with doing things right. He is often recognized as a technology consultant within the team and brings a vast amount of .Net, Azure, and DevOps skills to the discussion table.
Ricardo Rodriguez
Tech Lead, Trintech
I have seen Kasun not only excel at the current practices of DevOps and Azure but also quickly adapt and adopt new trends and technology that emerge in this ever-changing industry. Kasun's enthusiasm over quality, as well as his knowledge sharing and communication skills, is something to be desired in any professional
Sajeetharan Sinnathurai
Senior Program Manager - Azure Cosmos DB, Microsoft
Kasun is undoubtedly one of the most talented individual and an excellent colleague who possess an analytical approach, technically sound and willing to take up challenges at any time. He has the ability take control of a situation and guide a team towards a solution.
Anushka Wickramaratne
Quality Assurance Architect, Cambio Healthcare Systems
I strongly believe in Kasun's hard-working attitude. He is not just a hard worker, but smart worker as well. His technical competency is unbelievable when compared with his industry experience.
Richard Halvorsen
Senior Manager - Software Engineering, Worldlike Global
Kasun is one of the most talented persons that I have ever come across. Whatever you throw at him, whether it is a technical challenge or a meeting with a potential customer, he always delivers.
Inoka Silva
Associate Software Architect, Mitra Innovation
Kasun is one of the best among all the team members I have ever worked with. Kasun is very passionate and has great vision for his work. His technical knowledge, capacity of understanding and learning any new technologies is excellent.
Oscar Elgquist
Solution Owner, Adra
Kasun's ability to handle complex problems and issues is unlike any I’ve seen before and his contributions made a dramatic increase in the productivity level for Adra.