Mevan Karunanayake
Associate Technical Lead
Western Province, Sri Lanka
Summary
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Top SchoolMevan Karunanayake is an Associate Technical Lead with nine years of experience building and hardening identity and security software at WSO2. He combines backend Java expertise, integration test automation and occasional full‑stack fixes to improve user experience across the WSO2 Identity Server ecosystem. Mevan has a track record of shipping pragmatic fixes—ranging from OAuth token handling and claim management to self‑registration and password recovery flows—and has contributed tooling for bulk user export and deployment automation. Comfortable working beyond his core domain, he pairs methodical problem solving with strong interpersonal skills and a habit of improving both developer and end‑user workflows. Based in Sri Lanka, he brings deep institutional knowledge of WSO2 products from intern to technical lead.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc. Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bsc. Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Moratuwa2014 G.C.E. Advanced Level, PHYSICAL SCIENCES, 2014 G.C.E. Advanced Level, PHYSICAL SCIENCES at Bandaranayake College, Gampaha
English, Sinhalese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (56)
integration-testing10
application-management10
identity-framework10
api-rest10
apidoc10
back-end-development10
validations10
testng10
jsp10
identity10
oid10
authentication10
user-authentication10
identityserver10
validation10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wso2/carbon-identity-framework
Dec 2018 - Jun 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:138 reviews, 79 commits, 72 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mevan's commits primarily focus on fixing issues related to claim management within the identity framework, specifically addressing existing external and local claim URIs. The user also made changes to the application management service and UI components to incorporate custom inbound authenticator configurations. Furthermore, the user implemented methods for username preprocessing and validation, and added new methods to resolve users within the identity management service.
identity
wso2/samples-is
Jul 2018 - Jul 2021
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 12 commits, 9 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Mevan contributed to sample applications focused on identity and security. They updated a batch script (`.bat`) file, which appears to be part of a quick start guide, likely for automated setup and configuration. The user also added a new tool (bulk-user-export-tool) for exporting user data, demonstrating the development of back-end utilities. Further contributions include improvements to build and deployment processes by modifying the start script of the tool, thus showing an understanding of automation and configuration within this domain.
identity
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