Sachini Samson
Senior Software Engineer at WSO2
Sri Lanka
Summary
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Top SchoolSachini Samson is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building reliable backend systems at WSO2, where she progressed from intern to senior engineer. She focuses on runtime observability and error-handling improvements, contributing notable enhancements to the Ballerina programming language’s tracing extension used by the Choreo platform. Based in Sri Lanka and educated in Software Engineering at the University of Westminster, she blends practical production experience with a strong open-source mindset. Sachini’s work includes adding checkpointing logic and span-dropping strategies to preserve trace integrity under load—detail-oriented contributions that improve platform resilience in real-world scenarios.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BEng (Hons) in Software Engineering, Software Engineering, BEng (Hons) in Software Engineering, Software Engineering at University of WestminsterGirls' High School,Kandy
Github Skills (11)
observability10
ballerina10
tracer10
trace10
java9
javas9
integrate8
integrations8
compiler7
compiler-compiler7
programming-language6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang
Mar 2019 - Jun 2022
The Ballerina Programming Language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 135 commits, 19 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Sachini's contributions primarily focused on improving the error handling and observability aspects of the Ballerina programming language's tracing extension for the Choreo platform. They enhanced the error paths for publishing traces and implemented logic to drop spans when the buffer is full. The user also added control flow checkpoint logic and instrumented the code to record checkpoints, indicating a focus on improving the runtime observability of the Ballerina platform. Furthermore, the user added events to Choreo Trace Span.
compilerprogramming-languageinterpreterballerinaballerina-lang
wso2-extensions/esb-connector-epic
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 4 PRs in 24 days
integration
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