Ayoma Wijethunga is a security and compliance leader with 11 years of experience, currently serving as Director of Security and Compliance at WSO2 in Sri Lanka. He has progressed through technical and leadership roles at WSO2, driving product, cloud, and infrastructure security while owning vulnerability management, SOC operations, and threat intelligence. Ayoma has led compliance programs for Common Criteria, SOC2, FedRAMP, FIPS, ISO 27001 and PCI, and built automation around CI/CD security checks and IaC scanning using tools like Trivy, Checkov and GitHub Actions. He helped make Ballerina secure-by-default by adding compiler-level taint checking and contributed to open-source security tooling and community CTFs that raised security awareness locally. Known for blending hands-on technical depth with programmatic compliance leadership, he routinely advises on secure cloud architectures across AWS and Azure. Outside formal roles, he’s scaled security culture through training, tooling, and public community engagement.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Information Technology, Bachelor's Degree Information Technology at University of Moratuwa
DNIIT - Professional Diploma in Information Technology JavaEE, DNIIT - Professional Diploma in Information Technology JavaEE at National Institute of Information Technology
Contributions:109 reviews, 79 PRs, 72 pushes in 4 years 2 months
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Ayoma Wijethunga - Director - Security And Compliance at WSO2