Sanjiva Weerawarana
Founder, Director, CEO & Chief Product Officer at Avinya Foundation
Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolSanjiva Weerawarana is a veteran software entrepreneur and technologist who founded WSO2 and has spent over three decades shaping the Web, web services, cloud and data analytics ecosystems. He created Ballerina, a programming language optimized for network-distributed applications, and has balanced hands-on technical leadership with executive roles as CEO, Chief Architect and Chief Product Officer. Based in Colombo, he now directs his energy toward civic tech and national digital transformation through initiatives like Code for Sri Lanka, Lanka Data Foundation and the Lanka Software Foundation. He also chairs social-impact projects such as the Avinya Foundation to expand vocational education at scale and advises national and international tech bodies including MOSIP and NASSL. Less obvious: alongside his corporate and nonprofit work he drives for Uber and serves as a volunteer IT officer for the Sri Lanka Army, reflecting a pragmatic, ground-level engagement with technology and society. Trained in computer science (PhD, Purdue), he blends deep research pedigree with repeated success turning open standards and open source into production-grade platforms.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Purdue UniversityMS Applied Mathematics / Computer Science, MS Applied Mathematics / Computer Science at Kent State University
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Github Skills (65)
programming-language10
interpreter10
cloud-native10
architecture10
agility10
compiler10
ballerina10
architectural-patterns9
specification9
microservices9
candidate8
wso28
kubernetes7
tomcat6
backend6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
WSO2Telco/mcx-india
Apr 2016 - Nov 2022
MCX India Collaboration Space
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 comments, 2 issues in 6 years 7 months
reactjsjavascriptreactcollaboration
sanjiva/ballerina-spec
Mar 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:27 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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