Sam Wellalage , BSC, MA

WIC Search

Your on-demand in-house recruitment team at 80% less cost.

Chief Economist and Recruiter

WorkInCrypto.Global

Scaling Blockchain, Crypto and Web3 Teams Since 2019: Csuit to $100K salaries

Recent appointments: 
Director of Operations: Sport and Blockchain Tech
Head of Business Development: Cloud Startup
Head of Web3 and Metaverse for PSG Football club: one of the most well-known sports brands in the world: £600 Million revenue last year
Web3 Advisor to the board: beIn Media Group: £1 Billion in revenue last year
COO to a payment application: 12 Billion Dollars under management
CEO to a brand new crypto exchange
Head of Product 
CTO
Chief Operating Officer: Crypto exchange: £400 Million in Revenue

Founder and executive search recruiter

ScalingCrypto teams since 2019. Our business has two functions: executive search and 2. Crypto recruitment for mid and junior level roles

Founder

Untapped Future

"untapped Future" is a charity I set up to address my lifelong dream to support underprivileged children. Coming from an underprivileged background, I know how life-changing it is to have equal opportunities for children growing up in underdeveloped countries in Asia. 10% of the business profit from WorkInCrypto.Global goes towards this charity to help identify children with sporting and education talent.

Chief Executive Officer

Scaling Unicorns

Hiring Ops Leaders and Sr Tech for Tech, AI and FinTech industry. Salary ranges from $120K to $400K.

Cloud Computing, Machine Learning and AI, Python Engineers, Data Engineer, Cloud Security, Director, CEO, Full Stack Engineers, Backend Engineer

Founder and Principal Recruiter

5iveTech Recruitment

What makes us different from the rest? It is in the questions we ask and the process we follow! We go beyond checklists and explore what it is actually driving people in their work.  

Track record to date:
Our last 100 placements have a 99% retention rate. 98% of the candidates we've placed in the last 2 years are still in their jobs today. Most of them got promoted

Examples of our placement in the past 12 months (contract and permanents):
Tech Leadership: CTO, Engineering Manager, Head of Development, Tech Architects and Lead Devs 
C-Suit: CEO, Chief Operations Officer, Director of Ops, Head of Client Services
Compliance: Head of Compliance, Director of compliance, AML/KYC/ Crypto specific compliance
Marketing: CMO, Marketing Manager, UX/UI Designer
Sofware Engineering: Blockchain, C#, Java, C++, Ruby on Rails, Elixir, Golang, Javascript, React, Gatsby, SOLIDITY, Smart Contracts,PHP

Industries: Fintech, Cryptocurrency, Asset Management, Banking, Capital Markets, Gaming, Gambling, 

We ask intuitive questions to determine your suitability and we make recommendations based on your skillset. Whether you are a CEO, recruitment head or a junior-level candidate, we provide expert advice which transforms your talent pipeline and careers.

Managing Director and Founder

rethink

I built the Ruby on Rails practice from scratch at Rethink.

Awards and recognitions: Rising Star at Rethink group (London, Birmingham, Manchester and Ireland).

Technology Recruiter

British Transport Police

Human Resource and Resource allocation for London Police

HR Resourcing Officer

Keele University

Recruitment Officer

Sri Lanka Badminton 

I first represented Sri Lanka when I was 12  years old. At the age of 19, I became the national number 1. I was able to travel the world and represent my country. I loved every minute of it. 

Starting out it was hard, financially as well as mentally.  But through hard work, sheer determination and self-belief I overcame every obstacle. I'm blessed to be able to play an individual sport at the highest level, and that experience still shapes me and reassures me that there is nothing you cannot achieve if you beleive!

Professional Athlete

Crypto Executive Search Recruiter | Ex -Pro Athlete | CEO

Separating the good from the great!

I have been scaling Crypto/Blockchain/ Web3 companies since 2019, hiring C-suit to Engineers.

Most roles ranges from $100,000 - $400,00K per year.

Here are some case studies of how I did exemplary work for exemplary people and companies: 

1. I am the exclusive and retained Blockchain recruiter for the PSG football club, one of the world's top 5 best football clubs owned by the government of Qatar. I successfully recruited their first Head of Blockchain to facilitate the club's transition into the Web3 space and help them earn millions of additional revenue streams.

2. I recruited the entire company (C suit, engineers, and ops) for the former chairman of Macquarie Bank Group, who now runs a 12 billion-dollar hedge fund. 

3. I helped another market leader, Chiliz and Socios, hire a Director of Operations for their newly set crypto team and several other roles.

How do I achieve these results?

I use a metric-driven, scientifically designed qualification process that hiring managers and candidates undergo. Thus, I have a 100% success rate over 500 positions filled and a 98% retention rate.  

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Executive Search Recruiter

Executive Search / C-suit Recruitment in  Crypto. Blockchain and Metaverse Sector

Recent appointments: 
Head of Business Development: Web3 startup
Head of Web3 and Metaverse for PSG Football club: one of the most well-known sports brands in the world: £600 Million revenue last year
Web3 Advisor to the board: beIn Media Group: £1 Billion in revenue last year
COO to a crypto payment application: 12 Billion Dollars under management
CEO to a brand new crypto exchange
Head of Product - crypto
CTO - crypto
Chief Operating Officer: Crypto exchange: £400 Million in Revenue last year

Endava

- Build of K8S architecture using Helm / Helm Charts
- Managing Kafka clusters and AWS MSK
- Applying GitOps best practices
- Integrating StrongDM solution
- Managing Auth0 Configurations as Code
- Implementing custom AWS SES solutions
- DevSecOps best practices
- Maintaining updates /upgrades of Kafka & Strimzi
- Usage of Bash and Python scripting
- Experienced with GitLab and Jenkins CI/CD

Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

- Implementing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Terraform Cloud)
- Administering Container orchestration (Kubernetes, Helm, FluxCD)
- Integrating best security practices (Mutual TLS authentication mTLS, ModSecurity WAF solution, Whitelisting and SOPS across CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code level)
- Scripting (Bash)
- OS Administration (Linux, Windows, macOS)
- Virtualization experience (Docker, VirtualBox, Vagrant)
- Version control (Git, Bitbucket, Gitlab Suite)
- Application Servers (Nginx, IIS)
- RDBMS (SQLServer, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
- NoSQL (MongoDB, MondogDB Cloud, Redis)
- Orchestration (GitlabCI)
- Artifact Repositories (Docker Registry)
- Cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Issue tracking (Jira, Service Now)
- Monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog)
- Agile SCRUM

Cloud DevOps Engineer

AllCloud

- Deploying DataDog monitoring using Terraform
- AutoScale / Beanstalk configurations for scalable and disaster recovery strategies
- Monitor cloud network traffic (CDN/ ELB/ ALB/ NLB/ API-Gateway/ VPN)
- Monitoring databases load (RDS/ DynamoDb/ Aurora)
- Administrating container orchestration systems in AWS (EKS/ ECS) and GCP (GKE)
- Serverless Lambda applications knowledge
- Monitoring Message Queuing Services (SQS/ RabbitMQ)
- Set up of Global Monitors (UTM) - Unified Threat Management 
- Implementing security benchmarks (CIS Benchmark/ AWS WAF)
- Configuration of Security 3rd party monitors (Reblaze/ TrendMicro/ AlienVault)
- Monitoring tool experienced in ELK Stack, DataDog, New Relic, Logz.io

AWS CloudOps Engineer

HARMAN International

- Managing BlackDuck server open source infrastructure 
- Optimising Linux server machines 
- Developing automation of system application tasks 
- Maintaining custom scripts for system efficiency 
- Test application performance for potential security risk assessment 
- Experiences in Stash, SVN, BitBucket 
- Support for Atlassian products & plugins (JIRA/ Confluence/ FishEye)
- Implementing JAVA custom scripts

Software Engineer at HARMAN

Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

- Providing 2nd lvl Adobe AEM, Campaign and Analytics support
- Performing maintenance tasks and logs analysis using Splunk
- Investigating the faulty management system on alerts/notification
- Incident management investigation with level 3 and developers
- Testing code fixes on Dev/Stage environment before releases
- Performing code fixing in HTML, CSS and JavaScript

Adobe Support Engineer L2

IMC - more than learning

- System configuration support on Microsoft Azure cloud
- Monitoring server Azure SQL systems
- ​Investigating issues reported by customer
- Developing e-learning configuration module for courses
- ​Documenting fixed in test case scenarios using Agile methodologies 
- Performing manual regression testing
- Performing unit code testing and quality acceptance testing
- Deploying new versions on Microsoft Azure cloud server system
- Configuration of Test and Dev systems for bug fixes
- Using SVN repositories for documenting bug fixes and new features

E-Learning Support Engineer

CGS Romania

- Salesforce ticketing support
- SAP refund financial operations
- Investigating fraud claims received from customer and authorities
- Investigation on financial fraud claim for compensation
- Billing and Operations Worldwide 24/7 Support

Fraud Analysis Support

Vodafone

- Processing corporate orders using Oracle E-Business suite
- Developing and planning  Oracle inventory reports
- Weekly / Monthly performance reports

Corporate Support Specialist

Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer | Blockchain Speaker

I am a senior Cloud DevOps Engineer with a passion for building, securing, and scaling blockchain solutions. With over four years of experience, I specialize in cloud infrastructure, observability, and security audits.

I lead training sessions on DLT technologies, and blockchain use cases, develop DevOps strategies, and advocate for GitOps principles. I work with tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, FluxCD, and GitlabCI. I manage solutions like StrongDM, Auth0, AWS SES, Kafka, Strimzi, and DataDog. I’m certified in AWS and Oracle Cloud, and skilled across AWS, GCP, and Azure platforms.

I enjoy collaborating and sharing knowledge with the DevOps community. When I'm not immersed in tech, you'll find me exploring blockchain trends, reading a good book, or tinkering with new gadgets.

Let’s connect and explore the future of cloud and blockchain together!

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