Frank Leymann is a full professor of computer science and founder and director of the Institute of Architecture of Application Systems (IAAS) at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. His research interests include architecture of large distributed systems, their quality of services and associated middleware, cloud computing, and patterns. Frank is the co-author of more than 350 peer-reviewed papers, more than 50 patents, and several industry standards. He is on the Palsberg list of computer scientists with highest h-index. Before joining the University of Stuttgart, Frank was an IBM Distinguished Engineer who was in charge of major pieces of IBM’s middleware stack.

Asanka spearheads the company’s customer facing technical tasks and oversees the solution architecture and technical sales functions. He also provides consulting to key WSO2 customer and conducts workshops specifically targeted at enterprise architects and technical managers. Asanka has over 15 years of industry experience, which include implementing projects ranging from desktop and web applications through to highly scalable distributed systems and SOAs in the financial domain, mobile platforms, and business integration solutions.

Praveen specializes in developing web services integration frameworks using Python, Java and related technologies. He has been working in the healthcare domain for more than six years. He passionate about open source technologies. He holds a Master of Computer Applications from Karnatak University, India.

Ibrahim is a qualified integration consultant expert with experience in several market sectors including telecommunication, media and public administration. While working at Capgemini, he gained valuable experience in leading development teams through the implementation and deployment of large integrated applications and in supporting and guiding customers during the architectural design phase. He has a strong understanding of business processes and customer service approaches, making him a valuable consultant being able to liaise effectively and professionally with managers, CTOs and CIOs.

Chamith has over five years of experience in systems and network administration and currently oversees WSO2′s overall system and network operations. He was an original author of the Texplorer Project and is interested in platform and infrastructure virtualization, distributed computing, IT security, load balancing, cloud monitoring and backup systems. He is an active member of the Lanka Linux User Group (LK-LUG) that advocates the use of free and open source software applications.

Darshana is a product lead of the WSO2 Identity Server team. He mainly focuses on the domain of identity management and computer security. He has worked with several customers providing solutions and technical consulting. Prior to joining WSO2, Darshana was an intern at Millennium IT (Software) Ltd.

Dulanja currently leads the WSO2 Platform Security team. He is a former member of the WSO2 Identity Server team. Before joining WSO2 he has worked on applications related to border control, telecommunication and project portfolio management domains. Apart from contributing to research and development and technical support efforts at WSO2, Dulanja has been involved in many customer engagements by providing solutions to their business requirements, especially in the identity and API management space.

Isuru began as an intern at WSO2 in 2010, where he contributed towards the initial development of WSO2 Developer Studio and now is a part of the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus team. He is a committer and a PMC member for the Apache Synapse open source ESB project. He is a founding member of the Siddhi Complex Event Processing Engine which is now shipped with the WSO2 CEP server. Isuru has successfully completed a Google Summer of Code Program where he worked on a project under the Eclipse Foundation.

Kishanthan is a member of the platform technologies team at WSO2. He mainly focuses on the WSO2 Carbon Kernel and WSO2 Application Server products. The main responsibility of the platform team is to provide solutions to the organizations’ overall platform related requirements such as clustering, caching, multi-tenancy, OSGi based components, artifact synchronization, etc. He is also a committer and a PMC member of Apache Axis2 Java project.

Nirmal is passionate about researching and striving for excellence. He leads the WSO2 Machine Learner Team which builds a scalable, distributed predictive analytics tool. His areas of interest include cloud computing, elastic scaling and data science. He has contributed to the evolutionary PaaS framework, Apache Stratos, where he was elected as a PMC Member and a Committer. Apache Tuscany, Apache JClouds and Apache Synapse are some of the other ASF projects that he is actively involved in. He has also participated in Google Summer of Code twice.

Nandika is the product lead of WSO2 Business Process Server (WSO2 BPS) which is a open source workflow engining supporting BPEL, BPMN and human tasks. He has provided technology consulting on customer integration projects using WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus and WSO2 BPS. He is an elected member of the Apache Software Foundation and a pioneer member and committer to the Apache Axis2/C project. He has also actively contributed to Apache Axis2 and Apache Sandesha2/C and scripting langauge extensions such as WSF/PHP.

Sanjaya is a part of the WSO2 Cloud team. Prior to joining the Cloud team Sanjaya worked in the Apache Axis2/C project. He is a committer and a project management committee member of Apache Axis2/C project. His experience spans from developing software for more accurate density functional theory calculations, to Sinhala text to speech translators. Sanjaya worked at department of computational mathematics and physics for four years at the Institute of Fundamental Studies.

Prabath currently leads and drives the vision and delivery of WSO2 Enterprise Mobility Manager and WSO2 IoT Server. He was previously leading WSO2 Storage Server and was also a part of WSO2 Data Services Server team. He has taken part in many customer engagements where he architected solutions in the fields of enterprise integration, data management, analytics, identity and API management. Prabath’s passion primarily lies in AI, software security, embedded systems and distributed computing. He continously focuses on researching and developing new concepts and tools as solutions for real world problems.

Suho leads the WSO2 Complex Event Processor team and works with realtime event processing and parallel computing solutions. In addition to his product development efforts he also provides technology consulting on customer engagements. He has also published several papers & articles on real time complex event processing systems.

Sinthuja is a member of WSO2 Data Analytics Server team and currently leads the WSO2 Dashboard Server team. Her areas of interest include designing and developing high performance Java enterprise applications and working with distributed systems, artificial intelligence and big data technologies such as Apache Cassandra, Apache Hive and Apache Hadoop among others. She has also been involved in many customer engagements where she has helped customers in developing their solutions based on the WSO2 platform.