Profile Summary
Kugamoorthy Gajananan, also known as Gajan, is a highly experienced Senior Consultant at Servian in Melbourne, Australia. His expertise lies in addressing cloud security and compliance issues in regulated industries. Throughout his career, Gajan has shown a steadfast dedication to acquiring knowledge, implementing, and constructing innovative technology solutions that have the potential to bring significant commercial, social, and educational benefits.
Gajan's research background is extensive, having spent time as a researcher at IBM Research in Tokyo, Japan. He was instrumental in the development of several open-source projects, including Integrity Shield, Kubernetes Operators, Policies for Open Cluster Management, and ArgoCD Interlace. His hard work and dedication have earned him multiple awards, including the Open Source Significant Contributor Award (2021), the Corporate Technical Award (2020), and the Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (2018 and 2019).
In September 2013, Gajan earned his PhD in Informatics from the National Institute of Informatics, under the supervision of Professor Helmut Prendinger. His PhD research was focused on developing tools and techniques to collect driver behavioral data and study the human factors that influence driving behavior in various transport scenarios. He collaborated with traffic engineers and was awarded multiple research accolades, including the Hojjat Adeli Award for Innovation in Computing (2015), the SOKENDAI Research Award (Japan), and several publications in international venues.
Gajan holds a B.Sc in Computer Science (First Class) from the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka. Then he worked as a software engineer from 2005 to 2007 at IFS Sri Lanka. In 2007, he received the Thailand King Scholarship and earned his M.Sc in Information Management at the Asian Institute of Technology. His graduate studies included an international internship program at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo and a project researcher role from 2010 to 2010.
Gajan is an esteemed member of both the ACM and IEEE organizations and is committed to advancing his knowledge and expertise in the field of cloud security and compliance.
