Pubudu Gunatilaka

CEO

14 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 10 years of expertise in API management.
Key contributor to WSO2's API management solutions.
Recognized thought leader in API management and cloud-native architectures.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on API management and cloud-native solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Api ManagementCloud-native Engineering

Other Skills

GraphQLWSO2 API ManagerDockerKubernetesIstioAPI OperatorFramework DesignTest EstimationTechnical ArchitectureTechnical SpecsJava DevelopmentCommunicationCloud-Native ApplicationsSoftware EngineeringJava

About

Associate Director at WSO2, leading the product architecture for WSO2 API Manager. With over 10 years of expertise in API management and cloud-native architectures, played a key role in driving the evolution of WSO2's API management solutions. A recognized industry thought leader, regularly sharing insights at global conferences like APIDays, Nordic APIs, and Conf42, as well as tech meetups. Passionate about advancing innovation in API management, Kubernetes-native API gateways, and API security to empower enterprises in building scalable, future-ready API strategies.

Experience

14 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

8 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Wso2

8 roles

Associate Director / Architect

Promoted

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos

Senior Technical Lead

Nov 2021 – Feb 2025 · 3 yrs 3 mos

I work on Choreo, a Next-Generation Integration Platform as a Service for Cloud-Native Engineering, as a Senior Technical Lead at WSO2. In addition, I contribute to WSO2's design decisions for the middleware stack.
WSO2 delivers the only complete open source middleware platform. With its revolutionary componentized design, WSO2 middleware adapts to the project for a lean, targeted solution to enterprise applications
I contribute in areas of:
WSO2 API Manager
WSO2 Docker
WSO2 Kubernetes/Openshift Artifacts
Istio integration with WSO2
API Operator for Kubernetes
WSO2 API Microgateway
Choreo Connect

GraphQLAPI ManagementCloud-Native Engineering

Technical Lead

Promoted

Oct 2019 – Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

As the Product Manager of Choreo Connect, I contribute to Choreo, A Next-Generation Integration Platform as a Service for Cloud Native Engineering.
As a Technical Lead at WSO2 API Manager team, I contribute to design decisions taken by WSO2 to drive the middleware stack.
WSO2 delivers the only complete open source middleware platform. With its revolutionary componentized design, WSO2 middleware adapts to the project for a lean, targeted solution to enterprise applications
I contribute in areas of:
WSO2 API Manager
WSO2 Docker
WSO2 Kubernetes/Openshift Artifacts
Istio integration with WSO2
API Operator for Kubernetes
WSO2 API Microgateway
Choreo Connect

GraphQLAPI ManagementCloud-Native Engineering

Associate Technical Lead

Oct 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr

As an Associate Technical Lead at WSO2 API Manager team, I contribute to design decisions taken by WSO2 to drive the middleware stack.
I contribute in areas of:
WSO2 API Manager
WSO2 Docker
WSO2 Kubernetes/Openshift Artifacts
Istio integration with WSO2

GraphQLAPI ManagementCloud-Native Engineering

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Aug 2017 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

As a Senior Software Engineer at WSO2 API Manager team, I contribute to design decisions taken by WSO2 to drive the middleware stack.
I contribute in areas of:
WSO2 API Manager
WSO2 Puppet Modules
WSO2 Docker
WSO2 Kubernetes/Openshift Artifacts

Software Engineer

May 2015 – Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos

As a Software Engineer at WSO2 PaaS team I contribute to Apache Stratos which is PaaS solution provided by WSO2. As a team member I contribute to design decisions taken by WSO2 to drive the middleware stack.
I contribute in areas of:
WSO2 Puppet Modules
WSO2 Docker
WSO2 Kubernetes Artifacts
WSO2 Mesos Artifacts

Google Summer of Code Intern

May 2014 – Aug 2014 · 3 mos

Under the mentorship of Thilini Ishaka, I created a BAM toolbox for WSO2 Business Process Server (BPS) to display statistics as a GSoC intern. BAM stands for Business Activity Monitor and is mostly used for large data analysis. In BPS, there are two types of processes that generate statistics: BPEL processes and human task processes. These data aid in the understanding of user behavior and the gathering of business insights.

Trainee Software Engineer

Nov 2013 – May 2014 · 6 mos

The apache software foundation

Committer and PMC Member - Apache Stratos

Sep 2015 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

Association for computing machinery

Student Member - ACM

Jul 2014 – Apr 2015 · 9 mos

University of moratuwa

Visiting Instructor

Jun 2014 – Oct 2014 · 4 mos

Visiting instructor for the 'Operating Systems' course module provided to Department of Computer Science and Engineering students in the '12 batch.

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Student Member - IEEE

Oct 2011 – Apr 2015 · 3 yrs 6 mos

IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is the world’s largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. IEEE and its members inspire a global community through IEEE's highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities.