Nipun Thathsara
Engineer - API Gateway Team
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolNipun Thathsara is an API and IAM-focused engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building secure, scalable enterprise middleware and gateway services. Currently on ING’s API Gateway team, he designs and implements token services, resilient Spring Boot backends, and automated Nginx configuration pipelines while driving secure coding practices. He has deep domain expertise from WSO2 in Identity and Access Management, contributing features to WSO2 Identity Server and API Manager and delivering CIAM and banking-grade IAM solutions. A strong Java engineer comfortable with relational databases, he’s led teams of 5–10 engineers, mentored hires, and acted as a technical recruiter across multiple regions. His academic background includes a Master’s in Information Security, and his open-source work spans contributions to WSO2 projects and OpenMRS—signal of practical experience in both security and healthcare software. Colleagues know him for blending rigorous architecture and testing discipline with a penchant for maintainable, production-ready code.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Degree of Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Information Technology, Graduate, Honours Degree of Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Information Technology, Graduate at University of MoratuwaPhysical Sciences, Physical Sciences at Rahula College - MataraMaster's degree, Information Security, Master's degree, Information Security at University of Colombo
English, Sinhala
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (47)
identity10
authentication10
authorization10
hierarchical9
wso29
rest9
gateway9
api9
access-management9
ocelot8
wso2-api-manager8
wso2-identity-server8
api-manager8
api-gateway8
identity-management8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nipunthathsara/wso2-organization-userstore-manager
Aug 2020 - Jul 2021
User store manager to cater organization management operations
Contributions:2 reviews, 7 PRs, 75 pushes in 10 months
organization-managementuser-store
nipunthathsara/wso2-organization-mgt
Jul 2020 - Sep 2021
Hierarchical organization management REST API
Contributions:5 reviews, 27 PRs, 208 pushes in 1 year 2 months
apiorganization-managementhierarchicalrestrest-api
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