Title: Software Architect

Country: Sri Lanka

I am a committer & Project Management Committee (PMC) member of the Apache Web Services & Apache Synapse projects & joined WSO2 in December 2005. I work as a software architect at WSO2 and am the Product Manager of WSO2 Web Services Application Server [1]. I'm also the lead of the WSO2 Carbon [2] project, which is the base platform on which all Java products are built

My areas of interest include distributed computing, SOA, Highly Available & Highly Scalable applications & J2EE technologies. I am the author of the clustering implementation for Apache Axis2. My current research area is cloud computing.

I've actively contributed to the following projects at Apache & WSO2

• Apache Axis2 [3]
• Apache Axiom [4]
• Apache Synapse [5]
• Apache Rampart [6]
• WSO2 WSAS [7]
• WSO2 ESB [8]
• WSO2 Data Service [9]
• WSO2 Carbon [10]
• WSO2 Registry [11]

I hold a B.Sc. first class honors degree in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, and am currently reading for a Masters Degree in Computer Science specializing in Software Architecture. My masters thesis is "Autoscaling Web services on Amazon EC2".

My blog about Open Source SOA Middleware, Distributed Computing & Automobiles can be found at http://afkham.org [12]. I also contribute to the WSO2 WSAS blog [13]

My GPG Public Key Fingerprint: 643F C2AF EB78 F886 40C9 B2A2 4AE2 C887 665E 0760

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