Don Athalage

ANZ Banking Group, Melbourne, VIC

• Design CI patterns to be used across wider organisation improving developer efficiency
• Set release engineering standards for new teams to start deploying applications to production and non-production environments seamlessly.
• Develop and deploy infrastructure using terraform to GCP

ANZ Banking Group, Melbourne, VIC

• Multiple successful cloud migration designs following cloud security and architecture best practices.
• In depth application assessment to identify cloud migration candidates while meeting functional and non-functional requirements.
• Performed as a trusted advisor for cloud-native applications build on top of container platforms.

ANZ Banking Group, Melbourne, VIC

• Work to create reusable pre-approved designs ANZ teams can use get on the cloud faster
• Perform as a trusted technical advisor, setting best practices for Cloud-native solution designs

Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC

• Conducted research on probabilistic and machine learning models for Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction.
• Conducting research on deep learning (Transformer) models on information extraction.
• Developed NLP Pipeline for data cleaning, preprocessing, entity extraction and relation extraction.

Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC

• WAM 85.5%
• Associate Dean Research Summer Project (Scholarship) - 2021
• Deakin Higher Degrees by Research funded project (Scholarship) - 2021

Amazon Web Services

• Demonstrated expertise in designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS.
• Deploy cloud architectures using AWS native CICD pipelines
• Develop AWS infrastructure using Terraform, Cloudformation and AWS CDK
• Implement compliance logic within AWS environment to ensure security and achitecture best practices.
• Automate boring tasks with AWS Serverless Application stacks.

Amazon Web Services

• Experienced in designing and implementing monitoring, metrics, and logging solutions in a DevOps context to
• ensure secure and compliant systems.
• Skilled in Infrastructure as Code (IAC) using AWS CloudFormation and Terraform, to programmatically manage infrastructure resources.
• Proficient in implementing continuous delivery and deployment techniques, automation and orchestration of releases.

Amazon Web Services

• Proficient in developing, deploying, and debugging cloud-based applications on AWS utilizing cloud native services services.
• Experienced in implementing security best practices such as encryption, RBAC and policies, and secure application development on AWS.

• Proficient in developing, deploying, and debugging cloud-based applications on AWS utilizing cloud native services services.
• Experienced in implementing security best practices such as encryption, RBAC and policies, and secure application development on AWS.

Network Resource Optimisation using KNative

Technologies: KNative, Kubernets, Golang,

• Setup virtual 5G network using Kubernetes and Knative, UERANSIM and free5GC
• Run performance testing on resource efficiency using Knative for network function resource management

Reinforcement Learning for 5G

Technologies: Python, Simulation, Reinforcement Learning,

• Studied 5G New Radio Specification on Network Function Virtualization.
• Developed reinforcement learning algorithms for network slicing optimization.

Exact Cover Algorithms

Technologies: C++, Python, Combinatorial Algorithms,

• Conducted research on Zero-Suppressed Binary Decision Diagrams (ZDD).
• Studied DLX algorithms for solving exact cover problems.