Seshika Fernando
Vice President - Banking And Financial Services at WSO2
Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolSeshika Fernando is a banking and financial services technology leader with over 20 years of experience building secure, scalable solutions and a decade-plus in product leadership at WSO2, where she currently serves as Vice President for Banking and Financial Services. She blends deep technical roots—first-class Computer Science degree and hands-on contributions to open-source stream processing (Siddhi) implementing time-series analytics and forecasting—with an MSc in Finance from LSE, enabling her to translate complex financial requirements into production platforms. As an evangelist for Open Banking and frequent international speaker, she drives industry adoption of secure APIs, data-driven services and fraud detection capabilities. Her background spans treasury analytics, trading platform delivery, and cross-functional product leadership, giving her a rare mix of front-line engineering, financial markets insight, and go-to-market experience. She is known for pairing rigorous testing and performance-minded engineering with practical product strategy to accelerate digital transformation for global banks.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, First Class Honours, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, First Class Honours at University of ColomboMSc, Finance, MSc, Finance at London School of Economics and Political Science
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Github Skills (15)
linear-regression10
complex-event-processing10
testing10
javas10
forecasting10
stream-processing10
junit10
forecast10
time-series10
outlier-detection10
java10
data-analysis10
big-data6
hadoop6
r6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
siddhi-io/siddhi
May 2014 - May 2015
Stream Processing and Complex Event Processing Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:12 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Seshika primarily contributed to the development of time series analysis functionality within the Siddhi engine. They implemented and tested linear regression, outlier detection, and forecasting extensions. Their work involved modifying Java code, particularly in test classes, to validate the correct behavior and performance of these extensions, thus verifying their contributions with extensive tests.
stream-processingevent-processingcomplex-event-processingonline-learningcloud
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