Charith Ruwinda

Charith Ruwinda has extensive work experience in the field of Site Reliability Engineering and Cloud Operations. Charith is currently serving as the Head of Site Reliability Engineering at BCS Technology International Pty Ltd since November 2022. Prior to this, they worked at Wiley as a Site Reliability Engineering Manager from August 2019 to November 2022.

Before joining Wiley, Charith worked at Pearson Lanka as a Manager of Cloud Operations from May 2017 to November 2022. In this role, they managed and led a team responsible for supporting and evolving a service mesh designed for containerized workloads. The PAAS offering designed for microservices deployed on top of AWS, involving the integration of various advanced technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, StackStorm, Travis, Ansible, Go, Terraform, and more.

Charith also worked at Pearson as an Application Engineer from July 2014 to November 2022. In this role, they provided support to development teams and TechOps teams, ensuring smooth service delivery. Charith was responsible for maintaining the consistency and integrity of production and per-production environments while managing rapid deployments and releases using automation tools. Additionally, Charith also held the position of Manager of Cloud Operations at Pearson during the same period.

Prior to Pearson, Charith worked at Lankacom Communication Services (PVT) Ltd. as a System Engineer from June 2008 to July 2014.

Charith Ruwinda attended Bandaranayake College Gampaha from 1996 to 2004, where they pursued an academic degree with a focus on Mathematics. In 2015, they obtained the RHCSA 7 certification from Red Hat. Additionally, in 2018, Charith obtained the AWS Solution Architect - Associate certification from AWS Elemental, an Amazon Web Services Company. It is worth noting that there is a mention of another RHCSA 7 certification, but no information is provided regarding the institution or the exact date of achievement.