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Heshan Perera

About

An experienced, adaptable, hands-on IT professional who contributes in both engineering and leadership roles.

Background

I started in 2004 on the IT desk of an export company, fixing machines, keeping servers, networks and backups healthy, and helping colleagues who were not technical get comfortable with their tools. That taught me that IT exists to serve the people using it.

From 2013 I spent seven years running hosting, domains, DNS and deployments for client websites, and rebuilding legacy PHP applications in Laravel. In 2021 I moved into DevOps, architecting and operating AWS infrastructure and automating its maintenance. Since 2023 I have managed IT for the same company, leading a team of five.

How I work

I have management experience, but I have never stopped doing the technical work. I am as comfortable resolving a user's problem or debugging a deployment as I am planning infrastructure or leading a team, and I am open to roles on either side.

I explain things plainly, document what I build, and prefer a boring, reliable system to a clever, fragile one.

AI-assisted work

I use AI tools daily: to compare design options before committing to one, to draft scripts and code that I then review and test, and to get productive in an unfamiliar stack more quickly. The multi-tenant logistics platform in my case studies was built this way.

AI makes me faster. It does not make the decisions, and I stay accountable for everything I ship.

Qualifications

Education

  • Bachelor of Information Technology

    Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT)

    2009 to 2013

  • Postgraduate Diploma in Information Technology

    Eastern Institute of Technology, New Zealand

    2020, partially completed

Certifications

  • Progress OpenEdge Database Administration

    Progress

  • Google Workspace: Deployment Services Specialist

    Google