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Sri Lanka

• Initiated and led the effort to build Choreo Analytics, the SaaS Analytics platform for API Manager. Owned product architecture, delivery, and deployment.
• Onboarded 40% of on-premises Analytics customers to the SaaS solution, assisting them in eliminating infrastructure and maintenance costs.
• Designed and spearheaded the development of strategic features for WSO2 API Manager, such as revisioning support, cross-environment API artifact deployment, memory-backed artifact replication, and an endpoint registry.
• Improved customer satisfaction and retention by addressing stability and performance issues in the WSO2 Analytics Product.
• Conducted training programs and product demonstrations for prospects and partners to increase product awareness and adoption.
• Provided oversight for the API management aspect of Choreo, WSO2's SAAS development platform.

• Provided technical oversight for three products, leading a team of 30 engineers and establishing practices to continuously deliver high-quality products.
• Led an effort to revamp Iris Adaptors - a suite of software adaptors that encapsulates payment and SMS infrastructure, resulting in a 30% performance improvement.
• Successfully led three war rooms, assisting support engineers in resolving production incidents.
• Contributed to defining product roadmaps by aligning technical strategy with business goals.
• Conducted training sessions for strategic customers, contributing to their adoption of our products.
• Designed a large-scale deployment comprising eight Gateway nodes to handle 30,000 transactions per second for a major telecom provider.

• Conducted root cause analysis for incidents in the Internal Gateway Product, addressing issues related to handling concurrent workloads.
• Engaged stakeholders, gathered requirements for software subsystems such as billing and analytics, and led a development team of 4-6 engineers to implement them.
• Enhanced the data publishing flows of the AXP Hub, resulting in a more robust data publication process and a 30% increase in throughput.
• Assisted a strategic customer in upgrading to the latest version of the product, ensuring zero downtime and conducted on-site visits to collaborate with the development team in troubleshooting migration-related issues.

Sri Lanka

Worked on a GPU compatible Bitmap based framework which can speed up Data Mining algorithms.

• Engaged in long-term consultancy projects with a foreign customer, providing expertise in building an integration framework.
• Implemented an adaptor conforming to the Token Exchange Specification, enhancing the flexibility to integrate any third-party Secure Token Service.
• Identified and addressed user experience issues related to using WSO2 Identity Server with API Manager, streamlining the setup process through the development of an extension.
• Managed a team of 2 3 engineers, coaching them on engineering best practices and secure software development.

Sri Lanka

• Enhanced the throttling implementation of WSO2 API Manager, reducing overhead by 20% when replicating throttling counters to large clusters.
• Implemented product profiles for API Manager, resulting in a maximum 25% reduction in memory consumption.
• Conducted comprehensive performance tests, identified and resolved issues, leading to improved throughput and latency of the product.
• Provided consultancy services to a local customer, collaborating closely with their development team to successfully launch a product utilizing WSO2 Products

Sri Lanka

• Conducted on-site consultations with customers, offering expertise in deploying, configuring, and customizing WSO2 products, resulting in securing strategic deals.
• Developed extensions to enable the attachment of various document types to APIs, enhancing the usability of the product.
• Researched, documented, and scripted approaches for setting up WSO2 Products in a distributed fashion, reducing manual workload by 20%.
• Conducted webinars on WSO2 API Manager, contributing to brand recognition and awareness-building efforts.

Sri Lanka

• Fixed issues in the company-wide test execution framework, resulting in a 15% improvement in test accuracy.
• Developed complementary tools to streamline the deployment of Sharepoint Server farms, reducing manual effort by 30%.
• Conducted research on company-wide test frameworks and facilitated knowledge-sharing sessions.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (Hons), Computer Science & Engineering