Thusitha Dayaratne
Research Fellow at Monash University
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolThusitha Dayaratne is a research-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience bridging academic security research and production-grade back-end development. Currently a Research Fellow at Monash University, he specializes in decentralized identity, cyber-physical system security, false data injection attacks in smart grids, and ML-driven cybersecurity—work grounded in a PhD that examined attacks on residential demand response systems. Before academia he was a core contributor and committer at WSO2, improving frameworks like MSF4J and Carbon with pragmatic fixes for form handling, deployment, and resource management. Comfortable moving between research, teaching, and industry, he combines deep threat modeling and usability security insight with hands-on Java/EE and database integration experience. Unusually, his profile blends open-source maintenance of widely used middleware with applied adversarial research on energy infrastructure resilience.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc (Hons), Information Technology, B.Sc (Hons), Information Technology at University of MoratuwaPannipitiya Dharmapala VidyalayaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Monash University
Sinhalese, English
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Github Skills (39)
api-rest10
back-end-development10
api-design10
restful-api10
web-deploy10
java10
tenancy10
javas10
manage10
h2-database10
web-deployment10
management10
database-management10
rest-api10
cdi10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
wso2/msf4j
Jun 2016 - Oct 2017
WSO2 Microservices Framework for Java (MSF4J)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 374 commits, 293 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Thusitha focused on implementing and improving the form parameter handling within the WSO2 Microservices Framework for Java (MSF4J) repository. They implemented support for form parameters and input streams, and added new test cases to validate the functionality of the implemented features. This included the creation of a `FormParamIterator` class and related support classes to parse and process multipart/form-data and x-form-url-encoded requests. Furthermore, the user also addressed potential issues related to memory leaks.
javawso2microservices
wso2/orbit
Jun 2015 - Oct 2017
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:77 commits, 62 PRs, 45 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Thusitha primarily focused on creating and modifying an orbit bundle, specifically for the H2 database. Their work included adding console services and database management functionality within the project, as well as downgrading the H2 database version. The user also removed debug methods and performed updates to the code base involving native library updates. These commits highlight a focus on database integration and management within the project's ecosystem.
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