Dakshitha Ratnayake
Director Developer Relations
Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolDakshitha Ratnayake is a Director of Developer Relations with 11 years in software engineering, solutions architecture, and technology evangelism, primarily at WSO2. He blends hands-on technical sales and middleware expertise with developer advocacy, having led programs like the Ballerina language and built close technical partnerships to translate business needs into production solutions. As a Developer Advocate at ZITADEL he contributed clear, Google-styled documentation and quickstarts to a notable open-source identity project, showing a knack for improving developer onboarding and discoverability. Based in Sri Lanka with a first-class BSc in Software Engineering, he combines product-focused storytelling with deep implementation experience across enterprise middleware and identity infrastructure. Not obvious at first glance: he moves fluidly between writing docs, shaping developer programs, and architecting solutions—bridging marketing, engineering, and customer success.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Elementary and High School, Elementary and High School at Holy Family Convent, BambalapitiyaBSc (Hons) Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, First Class, BSc (Hons) Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, First Class at University of Westminster
Sinhalese, English
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Github Skills (9)
documentation10
authorization9
openid-connect9
user-authentication9
authentication9
authorizations9
ui-design7
graphical-user-interface7
user-interface7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
zitadel/zitadel
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
ZITADEL - Identity infrastructure, simplified for you.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:68 reviews, 1 commit, 47 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Dakshitha primarily contributed to the project by creating and modifying documentation. Their commits include adding quickstart guides, Python quickstart guides, and guides on integrating and retrieving user roles. The user updated existing documentation to comply with Google style guidelines and added documentation for token introspection and device authorization. They were also responsible for modifying sidebars and titles to improve navigation and indexing.
serverlesskeycloakzitadelbest-ofera
api-federation/design
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
Contains requirements and design documents.
Contributions:28 commits, 4 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 month
design-documents
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