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Mahesh Mudannayaka

Infrastructure & Cyber Security Lead
10+ Years in IT & Infrastructure
Melbourne, Australia
Mahesh Mudannayaka — Infrastructure & Cyber Security Lead

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About Mahesh Mudannayaka

Mahesh Mudannayaka is our Infrastructure & Cyber Security Lead — an IT infrastructure and network engineering specialist whose career spans team leadership, cloud administration, and network implementation across Australia and Sri Lanka. He currently leads an infrastructure team at Bapcor, one of Australia's largest automotive parts groups, securing the systems a national retail network depends on.

He brings hands-on depth that most security consultants lost years ago: he has racked the servers, built the networks, administered the cloud tenancies, and carried the on-call phone — from network implementation at Lanka Logistics & Technologies and cloud administration at Creative Alley, through network engineering and IT operations roles at Truetel, All Purpose Pumps, and Crash Technology in Australia.

"Most breaches don't start with an exotic exploit — they start with an unpatched box, a flat network, or an account nobody deprovisioned. Get the fundamentals right and you're ahead of ninety percent of the threat landscape."

— Mahesh Mudannayaka, Infrastructure & Cyber Security Lead

Mahesh holds a Master of Information Technology from Charles Sturt University and a Bachelor of Applied Science from the University of Peradeniya, where he began his career as a demonstrator — a teaching instinct he still applies when handing systems and security practices over to client teams.

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Areas of Deep Expertise

Mahesh works from the wire up — his expertise runs across network engineering, infrastructure, and the operational security fundamentals that keep real businesses online, patched, and protected.

Network Engineering & Security IT Infrastructure Cloud Administration Firewall & Perimeter Hardening Identity & Access Management Endpoint Security Backup & Disaster Recovery Network Implementation IT Team Leadership Vendor & Asset Management IT Support Operations Security Awareness & Enablement

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Key Achievements

10+
Years across IT & infrastructure
2
Countries worked (AU & LK)
MIT
Charles Sturt University
Team Lead — Bapcor Leads IT infrastructure and team operations for one of Australia's largest automotive parts groups
Level 2 Network Engineer — Crash Technology Network engineering and escalation support, hardening business-critical networks across client environments
IT Officer — All Purpose Pumps Owned IT operations end to end: infrastructure, endpoints, and day-to-day security posture
Master of Information Technology Charles Sturt University, following a BSc from the University of Peradeniya
Networks & Cloud — Truetel, Creative Alley Network administration, IT support, and cloud tenancy administration across telecom and IT services
Network Implementation — Lanka Logistics Implemented and commissioned network infrastructure; earlier a Demonstrator at Peradeniya

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How Mahesh Works

Mahesh's engagements start with the fundamentals most breaches actually exploit — and fix those first, before anything exotic.

Map what you run: A clear inventory of endpoints, users, networks, and third-party connections — because you can't protect what you can't see.

Fix the fundamentals: Patch the unpatched, segment the flat network, and deprovision the accounts nobody owns. Unglamorous work that stops the majority of incidents.

Harden perimeter & identity: Firewall and perimeter hardening, identity and access management, and endpoint security across the systems your business depends on.

Plan for recovery: Backup and disaster-recovery planning so that when something does go wrong, you're back online fast — not improvising.

Hand it over: Security awareness and IT-operations uplift, so your team can hold the line long after the engagement ends.

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Cybersecurity Services We Deliver

Working with Mahesh, our security practice hardens the foundations your business actually runs on:

Security posture & infrastructure reviews Network & firewall hardening Cloud configuration & access reviews Endpoint & identity management Backup & disaster recovery planning Security awareness & IT operations uplift

Secure the foundations your business runs on.

Book a security session with Mahesh. You leave with a written read on your infrastructure's weakest points and what to fix first — whether you engage us or not.