Don Athalage

ANZ Banking Group, Melbourne, VIC

• Design and implement CI/CD patterns to improve developer efficiency across the organization
• Set release engineering standards for seamless application deployment to production and non-production environments
• Develop and deploy scalable serverless infrastructure using Terraform on GCP
• Implement comprehensive MLOps Platform using MLFlow, Dataproc Metastore, GCS, Trino and JupyterHub with Kubernetes, Flux and Terraform for reliable data infrastructure

ANZ Banking Group, Melbourne, VIC

• Delivered multiple successful cloud migration designs following security and architecture best practices
• Conducted in-depth application assessments to identify cloud migration candidates while ensuring functional and non-functional requirements compliance
• Served as trusted advisor for cloud-native applications built on container platforms
• Trained and operationalized machine learning models using YoloV8 for infrastructure component detection from architecture diagrams, automating cloud migration assessments

ANZ Banking Group, Melbourne, VIC

• Created reusable pre-approved designs to accelerate cloud adoption for ANZ teams
• Performed as trusted technical advisor, establishing 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
• Researched deep learning Transformer models for information extraction
• Developed comprehensive 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 CI/CD pipelines
• Develop AWS infrastructure using Terraform, CloudFormation and AWS CDK
• Implement compliance logic within AWS environment to ensure security and architecture best practices
• Automate operations with AWS Serverless Application stacks

Amazon Web Services

• Experienced in designing and implementing monitoring, metrics, and logging solutions in DevOps context for secure and compliant systems
• Skilled in Infrastructure as Code (IAC) using AWS CloudFormation and Terraform for programmatic infrastructure management
• 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
• Experienced in implementing security best practices including encryption, RBAC and policies, and secure application development on AWS

Amazon Web Services

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

Network Resource Optimisation using KNative

Technologies: KNative, Kubernetes, Golang,

• Setup virtual 5G network using Kubernetes and Knative, UERANSIM and free5GC
• Conducted 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
• Effectively communicated complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, enhancing understanding and collaboration

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