Heshitha Hettihewa
Associate Technical Lead
Sri Lanka
Summary
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Top SchoolHeshitha Hettihewa is an Associate Technical Lead with 11 years’ experience specializing in middleware, integration and web technologies at WSO2. He combines backend engineering and security focus—having strengthened management API security in the cloud-native Micro Integrator via JWT authentication and token lifecycle work—with practical contributions across Synapse, Carbon Mediation and the Ballerina language. At WSO2 he progressed from intern to technical lead, shipping features for business process and developer tools while also addressing deep performance and stability issues in core mediation components. Based in Sri Lanka, he remains an active open-source contributor and collaborator (including work with 52°North), blending product-minded engineering with hands-on fixes that improve reliability and secure integrations.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Information Technology at University of MoratuwaRichmond College,Galle
English, Sinhalese
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Github Skills (33)
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integrate10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
jsonb10
it-security10
jsonp10
wso210
integrations10
java10
jwt-authentication10
security10
javas10
syn10
language-server10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wso2/carbon-mediation
Dec 2016 - Dec 2019
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 45 PRs, 25 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Heshitha primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the WSO2 Carbon Mediation framework. Their work involved resolving issues related to secure vault lookup errors during cache expiry, adding null checks, and incorporating review suggestions. They also addressed issues related to artifact deployment and configuration, demonstrating an understanding of the framework's internal workings and the integration of various components. Furthermore, the user worked on deprecating JMS properties and adding support for dynamic configurations for the entitlement mediator.
wso2/wso2-synapse
Jan 2017 - Dec 2018
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 19 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Heshitha primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the WSO2 Synapse project, focusing on the backend logic. Their work involved resolving issues related to proxy tunneling, JDBC message store connections, and payload factory mediator functionality. The user demonstrated proficiency in Java, modifying core modules to address specific problems and enhance performance. Additionally, the user worked on the aggregate mediator, addressing potential performance issues and implementing JSON aggregation functionality.
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