Omindu Rathnaweera
Director at WSO2
Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolOmindu Rathnaweera is a seasoned identity and access management leader with 11 years of experience driving architecture and product for WSO2, now serving as Director for WSO2 Identity and Access Management. He blends hands-on Java backend engineering—demonstrated by security-focused contributions to the widely used WSO2 Identity Server repository—with strategic leadership across product, architecture, and delivery. Known for improving OAuth, consent management, and token generation flows, he combines rigorous security testing (including integration tests for open-redirects) with code quality and dependency hygiene. Based in Colombo, he rose through technical and leadership ranks at WSO2 after an early CTO role, bringing both startup pragmatism and enterprise-grade engineering discipline.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSC eng Hons, Electrical Engineering, BSC eng Hons, Electrical Engineering at University of MoratuwaStudent, Student at Ananda College
Sinhalese, English
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Github Skills (29)
authorizations10
back-end-development10
api-design10
identity10
user-authentication10
authentication10
identity-management10
java10
javas10
security-testing10
consent-management10
authorization10
test-integration10
backend10
oauth10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
wso2/carbon-identity-framework
Jul 2016 - Jun 2021
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 reviews, 174 commits, 161 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Omindu primarily focused on fixing and improving the WSO2 Identity Server framework. Their commits addressed specific issues like fixing exceptions in workflow processes, resolving footer location issues in authentication endpoints, and correcting the functionality of the getAllPolicyIds API. The user also made changes related to the consent management feature, including integrating consent management for SSO, handling user consents, and improving the UI for requesting consents. Furthermore, they also fixed Oracle SQL script related issues.
identity
wso2/product-is
Dec 2015 - Jul 2022
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Role in this project:Security Engineer & Backend Developer
Security Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 36 reviews, 175 commits in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Omindu focused on identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities within the WSO2 Identity Server. They added integration tests specifically to check for open redirect vulnerabilities, demonstrating a proactive approach to security testing. The user's contributions directly involved Java code changes within the backend, specifically modifying test cases to assess security risks. They also performed code merging and conflict resolution tasks.
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