Ashera Silva
Associate Technical Lead
Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
Summary
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Top SchoolAshera Silva is an Associate Technical Lead with eight years of hands-on experience building and hardening API management platforms at WSO2, where she progressed from intern to technical lead. She combines backend engineering, test automation, and configuration expertise—contributing notably to flagship open-source projects like WSO2 API Manager and Microgateway, including GraphQL and WebSocket gateway enhancements. Known for pragmatic refactors and improving integration test integrity, she bridges code quality with operational reliability and has automated performance testing for GraphQL workloads. A first-class CS graduate who attended a selective pre-doctoral research school, she pairs strong academic foundations with a proven track record of shipping maintainable, production-grade systems.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Honours Computer Science (First Class), BSc Honours Computer Science (First Class) at University of Colombo School of ComputingHoly Family Convent Bambalapitiya
Github Skills (21)
integration-testing10
api-management10
apidoc10
configuration-management10
microservices-application10
java10
javas10
go10
api10
api-gateway10
microservices10
test-automation10
api-testing10
wpgraphql9
wordpress-graphql9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
wso2/product-apim
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
Welcome to the WSO2 API Manager source code! For info on working with the WSO2 API Manager repository and contributing code, click the link below.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:29 reviews, 34 commits, 59 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Ashera primarily contributed to the integration tests, focusing on fixing endpoint URLs and updating test cases. They corrected malformed URLs in several test files related to API lifecycle and publisher functionalities, ensuring accurate testing of API behavior. Additionally, the user merged folders and updated configuration files related to identity and API management, and refined existing test code by refactoring the test classes. Their work demonstrates a focus on ensuring API testing integrity.
api-gatewayworking-onwso2api-managementlink
wso2/product-microgateway
May 2021 - Aug 2022
Choreo Connect is a cloud-native, open-source, and developer-centric API gateway.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 16 reviews, 25 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Ashera primarily contributed to refactoring and organizing the configuration files within the project. Their work involved moving default configurations into separate files, improving code maintainability. Further contributions included updating and cleaning config files, suggesting an active role in managing and improving the project's core configurations. The user also appears to have addressed issues related to malformed endpoints.
api-gatewayapimicrogatewayballerina-langchoreo
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