Malithi Edirisinghe
Senior Product Manager at IFS
Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolMalithi Edirisinghe is a Senior Product Manager and seasoned IAM architect with 11+ years of experience designing, building, and scaling identity platforms, having driven the evolution of WSO2 Identity Server and led the launch of Asgardeo SaaS IAM. He progressed from backend engineer to product leader and architect, implementing standards like OAuth2/OIDC, SAML, SCIM and WebAuthn while shipping features such as authentication orchestration, session management, federation and API access control. Under his leadership the IAM business grew from a few customers to 280+ global enterprises across B2C, B2B and developer use cases, and he has represented the product at Gartner, Identiverse and KubeCon. His hands-on open source contributions to WSO2 repos show deep familiarity with OAuth/OIDC session flows, SAML fixes and integration test automation, reflecting a blend of product strategy and code-level rigor. Passionate about extensible, event-driven SaaS architectures, he focuses on balancing security, usability and developer experience in large-scale identity systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of MoratuwaBsc Eng, Electrical and Information Engineering, Bsc Eng, Electrical and Information Engineering at University of Ruhuna
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Github Skills (30)
git10
apidoc10
saml10
identity10
testing10
oid10
identity-management10
java10
security10
merge10
javas10
user-management10
file-merge10
api10
version-control10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
wso2-attic/carbon-identity
Dec 2014 - Mar 2016
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:190 commits, 158 PRs, 76 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Malithi's commits focused on addressing specific issues related to OAuth server configuration and SAML SSO functionality. Their work included code modifications in Java files to improve OAuth grant type validators and to resolve problems related to signing SAML requests and assertions. Additionally, the user refactored and improved code related to OAuth configuration and token requests, enhancing the overall stability of the system.
wso2/carbon-identity-framework
Mar 2016 - May 2020
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:860 reviews, 340 commits, 442 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Malithi primarily worked on merging updates from the upstream master branch and resolving conflicts in the code. The user updated the user profile UI related code and did code refactoring. The user also addressed security issues.
identity
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