Shazni Nazeer
Director Solutions Architecture at WSO2
Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
Summary
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Top SchoolShazni Nazeer is a seasoned solutions architecture leader with 12 years of experience, now directing Integration Solutions Architecture at WSO2 where he shapes integration strategy and platform adoption across regions. He blends hands-on engineering roots—from low-latency trading systems at MillenniumIT and DirectFN to product engineering at WSO2—with customer-facing advisory skills, guiding engagements from pre-sales through post-sales. A polyglot programmer and active open-source contributor, he has made targeted back-end improvements to prominent WSO2 projects such as API Manager and Carbon Registry that improved API handling, search, and resource management. His dual perspective of product engineering and field-driven insights informs product roadmaps and pragmatic architectures that accelerate customers’ digital transformations. Based in Colombo, he pairs technical depth with an MBA-backed business sense, enabling him to translate complex technical trade-offs into tangible business outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Eng (Hons), Electronics and Telecommunication, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Eng (Hons), Electronics and Telecommunication at University of MoratuwaMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General at University of ColomboCarey College, Colombo
English, Sinhalese, Tamil
Github Skills (22)
api-rest10
api-management10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
java10
javas10
api10
rest-api10
wsdl9
rest9
elasticsearch8
elasticsearch-api8
sql-database8
elasticsearchquery8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wso2/carbon-registry
Jun 2014 - Oct 2015
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 32 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Shazni primarily contributed to the core functionality of the carbon-registry project. They implemented features for sorting registry resources by creation and modification dates, fixed issues related to adding WSDLs using zip files, and enhanced the handling of service and swagger artifacts. Additionally, the user made changes to improve search functionality and updated utility classes. These contributions involved modifications to core registry extension handlers and indexing services, with a focus on improving resource management and data retrieval.
api-management
wso2/carbon-apimgt
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Shazni's contributions primarily involve modifying and improving back-end components of the WSO2 API Manager. These changes include bug fixes related to API management functionalities (APIMANAGER-4877, APIMANAGER-4897, APIMANAGER-4936) and correcting code formatting. The user also addressed merging issues and added an additional condition to improve code efficiency. The commits focus on API implementation and related configurations.
api-management
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