Rumesh Sirithunga is a Senior Software Engineer focused on cloud-native infrastructure with seven years of experience building and operating distributed systems, currently at H2O.ai. He blends DevOps and backend engineering, contributing production-grade service discovery and service-mesh integrations (notably adding Consul support) to the open-source Choreo Connect API gateway. CKA/CKS certified, Rumesh has a track record of shipping cloud platform features and automation across H2O.ai’s hybrid cloud and earlier at WSO2. Based in Sri Lanka and trained at the University of Moratuwa, he also brings hands-on experience in operational visualization and civic tech from volunteer election projects, showing a practical curiosity for end-to-end system observability.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc(Hons) Computer Science and Engineering, B.Sc(Hons) Computer Science and Engineering at University of Moratuwa
Choreo Connect is a cloud-native, open-source, and developer-centric API gateway.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:11 reviews, 29 commits, 6 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Rumesh's contributions primarily involve the implementation of Consul service discovery within the microgateway. This includes modifications to the `xds_server.go` file to integrate Consul for service discovery, the addition and modification of files to implement and configure the consul client, and changes to facilitate service mesh functionality. The changes also included refactoring code, renaming variables, and removing commented and unwanted newlines. The user also worked on integrating service mesh capabilities, suggesting a focus on backend service discovery and infrastructure configuration for the API gateway.
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Rumesh Sirithunga - Senior Software Engineer - Cloud at H2O.ai