Summary
Nirojan Selvanathan is an Engineering Lead with 11 years of experience designing and shipping secure, cloud-native products from prototype to production for EU projects and Fortune 500 companies. He combines hands-on systems engineering—building microservice gateways, payment orchestration, ML platforms and CRM solutions—with security expertise from an MSc in Cyber Security & Digital Forensics. An active open-source maintainer, he is an Apache APISIX PMC member and committer who implemented high-speed gateway features and security plugins, and a former OWASP ZAP core contributor who built GitHub ZAP Actions. He has a proven track record turning R&D projects into funded startups and winning internal innovation awards at enterprise engineering shops. Based in Sri Lanka, he blends researcher rigor with product-focused delivery and a knack for automating vulnerability discovery that most engineering leads don’t advertise.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc (IT) Hons, Information Technology, Second Upper (3.51), B.Sc (IT) Hons, Information Technology, Second Upper (3.51) at University of Moratuwa
Wesley College, Colombo
Master of Science - MS, Cyber Security & Digital Forensics, Master of Science - MS, Cyber Security & Digital Forensics at University of Westminster
English, Tamil, Sinhalese