Ashen Weerathunga
Senior Technical Lead at WSO2
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAshen Weerathunga is a Senior Technical Lead and IAM specialist based in Melbourne with over 10 years building and leading identity and access management products at WSO2. He combines deep backend engineering—particularly around SCIM, OAuth2 and role/group management—with hands-on leadership, progressing from intern to senior technical lead within the same core product team. Ashen’s open-source contributions to prominent WSO2 projects and the Siddhi stream-processing engine demonstrate a knack for improving core frameworks, adding robust functionality (like percentile computation) and strengthening test coverage. He’s comfortable navigating both bug-fix and feature-delivery workstreams, including tricky integration-test and database cluster issues, and he makes encryption and multi-tenant concerns configurable and reliable. Notably, his background in anomaly detection and fraud-detection prototypes early in his career gives him an applied data-analytic perspective that informs pragmatic, secure IAM solutions.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at Ananda College, Colombo.CIMA Certificate Level in Business Accounting, CIMA Certificate Level in Business Accounting at The Chartered Institute of Management AccountantsBachelor of Information Technology (BIT) Information Technology, Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT) Information Technology at University of ColomboBachelor of Science (Special) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (Special) Computer Science at University of Sri Jayewardenepura
Sinhala, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (45)
unit-testing10
debug10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
identity10
testing10
complex-event-processing10
java10
javas10
junit10
role-management10
api10
scim10
jtest10
stream-processing10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
wso2/carbon-identity-framework
Nov 2016 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:160 reviews, 189 commits, 198 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ashen primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the WSO2 Carbon Identity Framework. Their work included adding features, such as disabling listeners, appending tenant domains to recovery emails, and making encryption algorithms configurable. Additionally, the user implemented changes in the user management UI and improved role management service. The user's contributions span across multiple components and functionalities of the identity framework.
identity
wso2/product-is
Dec 2016 - Jan 2023
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Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 146 reviews, 173 commits in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ashen primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the integration tests related to the WSO2 Identity Server. Their contributions include fixing stream definitions, resolving issues in challenge question management, and addressing test failures in the MySQL NDB cluster database. The user also updated product and release notes, and performed merges related to feature development, demonstrating expertise in core product functionality and testing.
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