Chinthaka Weerakkody
Assistant Director - Tech Lead at Acuity Analytics
Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
Summary
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Top SchoolChinthaka Weerakkody is an experienced software leader and tech lead with 14 years designing and delivering enterprise J2EE and cloud-native solutions, now serving as Assistant Director - Tech Lead in Colombo. He has driven middleware, identity, and API platform projects at WSO2, Virtusa and Apigate, combining hands-on development with people and project leadership across distributed teams. Deep expertise in WSO2 Identity Server and Spring Cloud is matched by a pragmatic focus on observability, validation, and user-facing error handling—evident from contributions to the popular wso2/identity-apps repository improving OTP flows and duplicate-credential validation. He excels at translating product requirements into scalable architectures, estimating and managing resources to meet schedule and budget constraints. A University of Moratuwa MS graduate, he blends academic rigor with a history of customer-facing support and open-source collaboration. Colleagues value him for bridging detailed backend engineering with elevated user experience and operational readiness.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of MoratuwaSivali Central College
English, Sinhalese
Github Skills (9)
javas10
authentication10
user-authentication10
jspx10
java10
jsp10
identity9
string-utils9
front-end-development5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wso2/identity-apps
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR in 17 days
Contributions summary:Chinthaka primarily contributed to improving user-friendly error messages and validation logic within the email and SMS OTP authentication portals. They enhanced the error handling to provide more informative feedback to users and also addressed the scenarios involving duplicate email or mobile numbers. The user also fixed bugs and code formatting issues within the authentication portal's JSP files. The focus was on enhancing the user experience and ensuring accurate validation across the application.
identity
chinthakarukshan/jasminegraph
Dec 2018 - Jul 2022
Contributions:260 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years 8 months
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