Pathum Fernando

Pathum Fernando is a Cloud Operations Engineer at Theta Lake since February 2024, specializing in compliance and security solutions for modern communication tools. Prior to this role, Pathum served as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Smart Pension, where responsibilities included system performance monitoring and proactive issue resolution. From September 2017 to January 2023, Pathum worked at Disney Streaming Services as a Site Reliability Engineer, leading platform observability and operational efficiency initiatives, along with spearheading automation solutions. Pathum's experience also includes a tenure as a Senior DevOps Engineer and Application Engineer at Pearson, focusing on continuous integration, deployment pipelines, and infrastructure management using AWS services. Pathum began a career at Lanka Communications as an Associate Engineer, contributing to data communication and internet services in Sri Lanka. Pathum holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Systems Networking from Curtin University and a Higher National Diploma in the same field from the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology.