Afkham Azeez
Head Of Operations
Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolAfkham Azeez is a seasoned technology leader with 13+ years building cloud-native, distributed systems and currently heads Operations at WSO2 after leading its cloud and platform architecture teams. An Apache Software Foundation member, PMC committeer and author of the clustering implementation for Apache Axis2, he blends deep hands‑on engineering (Kubernetes, microservices, J2EE) with strategic product and platform leadership. His open-source contributions span notable projects like Ballerina examples and the WSO2 MSF4J framework, reflecting a focus on reliable transaction and routing behavior in backend systems. He holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science and a first-class B.Sc. from University of Moratuwa, and has taught as a visiting lecturer there for over a decade. Outside work he’s a DIY maker and petrolhead—an amateur radio operator and CKA/CKAD—bringing practical tinkering and systems thinking to large-scale architecture challenges.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Level: 2As 2Bs Physical science stream - Pure Maths Applied Maths Physics Chemistry, Advanced Level: 2As 2Bs Physical science stream - Pure Maths Applied Maths Physics Chemistry at Royal CollegeSt Mary’s University, TwickenhamGCE Ordinary Level Ordinary Level: 7 Distinctions 1 Credit, GCE Ordinary Level Ordinary Level: 7 Distinctions 1 Credit at St. Peter's College
English, Sinhalese, Tamil
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Github Skills (19)
api-rest10
netty10
api-design10
restful-api10
http10
java10
javas10
distributed-transactions10
rest-api10
ballerina10
annotations9
bash9
annotate9
testing8
wso2-identity-server6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
wso2/msf4j
Sep 2015 - Dec 2017
WSO2 Microservices Framework for Java (MSF4J)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:608 commits, 150 PRs, 517 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Afkham appears to be involved in the development of the WSO2 Microservices Framework for Java (MSF4J) project, specifically focusing on the core routing and request handling aspects. The commits show the implementation of REST endpoints within a test service and the handling of various HTTP methods. The user's work includes creating classes and methods related to URL routing, request processing, and exception handling.
javawso2microservices
ballerina-platform/ballerina-distribution
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:94 commits, 1 issue in 1 month
Contributions summary:Afkham's contributions primarily involve working on Ballerina language examples, specifically demonstrating the usage of distributed transactions and related configurations. They refactored code, merged branches, and resolved conflicts to integrate features related to transactions. Their work also includes changes related to testing and demonstrating the functionality of the Ballerina framework.
ballerina
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