Danesh Kuruppu
Technical Lead at WSO2
Sri Lanka
Summary
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Top SchoolDanesh Kuruppu is a Technical Lead with over a decade of experience designing, architecting, and supporting enterprise-scale cloud and on-premise systems, currently leading the Ballerina Standard Library team at WSO2. He combines deep backend expertise in distributed systems, gRPC, messaging (NATS), and database tuning with hands-on implementation—authoring libraries, connectors, and migration work across Ballerina and WSO2 platforms. A co-author of O'Reilly’s "gRPC Up and Running" and an active open-source contributor, he has shipped hot-deployment features for MSF4J and helped modernize the Ballerina language for JDK11. Known for balancing product-quality leadership with coding craftsmanship, he also speaks publicly on gRPC and microservices patterns and maintains technical writing and examples that bridge theory to practical samples. Based in Sri Lanka, he brings a telecom engineering background and a habit of solving tricky merge/conflict and integration challenges that keep large polyglot projects healthy.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering at University of MoratuwaHigh School Mathematics, High School Mathematics at Rahula College
Sinhalese, English
Github Skills (35)
unit-testing10
api-management10
maintenance10
deploying10
apidoc10
api-design10
scripting10
protocol-buffers10
microservices-application10
authentication10
user-authentication10
solr10
indexing10
multitenancy10
java10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
grpc-up-and-running/samples
Mar 2019 - Jul 2021
Samples of the book gRPC Up and Running. Each sample is based on a real-world use case and details of the use case can be found in the respective chapter of the book.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1 review, 128 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Danesh's contributions primarily revolve around adding gRPC samples to the repository. They added Go samples, focusing on defining protobuf messages, and setting up gRPC services and clients. The user implemented endpoints for basic product management operations like adding and retrieving products, and also refactored to include a token-based authentication approach. These changes suggest a focus on building out core gRPC functionalities and API interactions.
protobufgrpcchapteruse-casedetails
ballerina-platform/ballerina-distribution
Mar 2018 - Dec 2022
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:302 reviews, 333 commits, 120 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Danesh's commits primarily focus on fixing merge conflicts within the Ballerina distribution repository. The changes involve updates to various shell scripts related to HTTP, gRPC, and other Ballerina features. The commits indicate the user is involved in maintaining and integrating different Ballerina examples and applications. A significant portion of the user's work centers around ensuring the smooth functioning of Ballerina's features through shell scripts.
ballerina
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