About
Hello.
I am Akil. I look after security and identity for a distributed team. I came to it the long way, through engineering.
These days I lead IT systems and cybersecurity at Teams Squared, a Microsoft-stack MSP in Colombo. In practice I own the things that decide who can touch what. Identity on Entra ID, conditional access, endpoint security, and an organization-wide ISO 27001 ISMS for a team spread across several countries. I like this work more than I expected to. It rewards being careful, and asking the unglamorous question. Who still has access here, and why.
I did not start in security. I started by building things. I have a computer science degree from Dalhousie, and I still write most of the software my team runs on, from an internal training platform to a device tracker to the client portal I inherited and now look after. Coming up through engineering is the reason the security side makes sense to me. I have built the systems I am now trying to protect, so I know where they leak.
Before any of this I spent a co-op term at Ubisoft Halifax writing gameplay code in Unity and C#. Games are still where most of my after-hours curiosity goes. I make small game and graphics projects for the pleasure of it, including a shooter built around one stubborn idea and renderers written straight against Vulkan and OpenGL, because I wanted to know how a triangle actually becomes a pixel.
The thread through all of it is the same. I like understanding a system far enough down that it stops feeling like magic, and I like building things that still work when nobody is watching them. When I am not doing that, I am usually deep in a single-player world or tinkering in Godot.
What I'm looking for
Open to roles in security and identity, or software engineering close to it, and happy to keep wearing more than one hat. I hold a Canadian post-graduation work permit valid through June 2029 and am open to relocating anywhere in Canada, including through the Atlantic Immigration Program. If that sounds like a fit, I would like to hear from you.
What keeps me curious
- Identity and access
- ISO 27001 and GRC
- Single-player worlds
- Graphics from scratch
- Godot game dev
- Understanding systems all the way down
Elsewhere
- Email mail@akilfernando.dev
- LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/akilf
- GitHub github.com/akilfernando
- Itch.io akilf.itch.io