Asanka Abeysinghe

Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer

Asanka has over 20 years of industry experience - this includes designing and implementing highly scalable distributed systems, service-oriented and microservice architectures in the financial domain, mobile platforms, and various business integration solutions.

Asanka’s expertise and experience is in helping organizations implement digital transformation programs that result in consumer-driven digital applications.

In his current role, Asanka evangelizes WSO2’s technology vision and drives efforts to create, refine, and enhance WSO2’s corporate reference architecture. He is also responsible for spearheading a thought leadership outlook that defines WSO2’s corporate reference methodology for development, customer success, and implementation. He is a regular speaker at numerous global events and many tech meetups in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a committer of the Apache Software Foundation and a member of the Forbes technology council.

Asanka has a BSc in MIS from the National University of Ireland.

When he’s not working towards his goals of successfully connecting humans and technology in meaningful ways, he enjoys watching and participating in various sports and motor racing. He’s an avid fan of basketball and dedicates time regularly to play a game or two.

Read Asanka's blog http://blog.architect2architect.com or follow Asanka on Twitter @asankama

Senior Leadership

Content published by Asanka Abeysinghe

BLOG 22 Oct, 2025

Just Say No to AI: Why Our Content Will Remain Human-Authored

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ARTICLE 08 May, 2024

Platformless Horizons for Digital Adaptability

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BLOG 02 Jan, 2024

The Illusion of Control: Why In-House Platforms Can Undermine Your Business Strategy

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BLOG 16 Oct, 2023

Why Building a Platform May Not Be Your Best Bet—Exploring Five Critical Reasons

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BLOG 17 Apr, 2023

Securing and Governing the Digital Double – Path to a Trusted Digital Ecosystem

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BLOG 21 Feb, 2023

Creating a Seamless Access Experience with the Digital Double

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Identity and Access Management

BLOG 12 Dec, 2022

Driving Digital Experiences via Cloud Native Applications

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BLOG 03 Nov, 2022

What's Happening To Middleware In The Cloud-Native Era?

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BLOG 31 Aug, 2022

How APIs are Aiding the Healthcare Industry in the 21st Century

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ARTICLE 08 Sep, 2020

A Decentralized Reference Architecture for Cloud-native Applications

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BLOG 13 Jul, 2020

WSO2 Summits 2020: Building an Integrated API Supply Chain

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BLOG 19 Feb, 2019

The API-driven World: WSO2 Integration Summit is Coming to a City Near You!

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WHITE PAPER 20 Feb, 2017

An Iterative Approach to Digital Transformation

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WHITE PAPER 14 Sep, 2016

Scope Versus Size: a Pragmatic Approach to Microservice Architecture

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WHITE PAPER 10 Sep, 2016

Connected Finance Reference Architecture

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WHITE PAPER 06 Sep, 2016

Event-Driven Architecture - The Path to Increased Agility and High Expandability

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ARTICLE 24 Mar, 2016

[Blog Post] Microdata Architecture

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ARTICLE 13 Dec, 2015

[Blog Post] Building a Platform for your Digital Transformation

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ARTICLE 10 Dec, 2015

[Presentation] Pragmatic Approach to Microservices Architecture: The Role of Middleware

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Chief Technology Officer - WSO2

ARTICLE 29 Oct, 2015

[Architecture Blog] API Registry and Service Registry

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ARTICLE 14 Oct, 2015

[Architecture Blog] Implementing an API Façade with the WSO2 API Management Platform

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ARTICLE 08 Oct, 2015

[Architecture Blog] A Pragmatic Approach to the API Façade Pattern

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ARTICLE 08 Apr, 2015

[Presentation] Pattern-Driven Enterprise Architecture

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Chief Technology Officer - WSO2

ARTICLE 07 Apr, 2015

[Presentation] Tracking a Soccer Game with Big Data

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ARTICLE 03 Nov, 2014

[Presentation] PaaS for the New Cloud Era

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ARTICLE 14 Aug, 2014

[Presentation] From shadow IT to empowered IT: Unshackling your developers’ creativity!

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BLOG 24 Jul, 2014

API Registry and Service Registry

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ARTICLE 27 Mar, 2014

[Interview] Establishing an SOA-Focused Enterprise Architecture

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ARTICLE 22 Jan, 2014

Implementing API Facade using WSO2 API Management Platform - Wednesday, January 22, 2014

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ARTICLE 22 Jan, 2014

[Blog Post] OAuth for Application Developer and Application User

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BLOG 28 May, 2013

Implementing an API Façade with the WSO2 API Management Platform

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Chief Technology Officer - WSO2

BLOG 24 May, 2013

A Pragmatic Approach to the API Façade Pattern

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Chief Technology Officer - WSO2

ARTICLE 04 Mar, 2013

[ApacheCon Talk] Innovative Foundation For an Open Source API Management Platform

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Chief Technology Officer - WSO2

BLOG 19 Jul, 2012

Pull/Push Data From Central Datacenter to Reduce Deployment Complexity

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ARTICLE 04 Mar, 2012

Lean approach to MDM using WSO2 Middleware Platform

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Chief Technology Officer - WSO2

BLOG 24 Jan, 2012

Bus Architecture to Handle Inbound and Outbound Calls with BPEL

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Chief Technology Officer - WSO2

ARTICLE 31 Aug, 2011

An Introduction to Pattern-based SOA Solutions

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Chief Technology Officer - WSO2

BLOG 30 Aug, 2011

Smart Endpoint Registry Finds the Best Service for a Particular Client

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ARTICLE 04 Aug, 2011

Join the Lean Wave

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BLOG 01 Jul, 2011

WSO2 Platform for API Management

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ARTICLE 30 May, 2011

Dual Channeling for Efficient File Processing

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Chief Technology Officer - WSO2

BLOG 23 May, 2011

Dual Channeling for Efficient Large File Processing

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BLOG 17 Apr, 2011

Defining a Generic API

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Chief Technology Officer - WSO2

BLOG 27 Mar, 2011

Public Services Gateway and Internal Services Gateway Patterns

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Chief Technology Officer - WSO2

BLOG 07 Mar, 2011

Adding the Dynamism of Events to a Master Data Management Solution

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Chief Technology Officer - WSO2

ARTICLE 28 Sep, 2009

SOA Solution Patterns - Presentation at SOA Workshop, Colombo, Sri Lanka

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Chief Technology Officer - WSO2

ARTICLE 14 Jul, 2009

Fusion: Eventing with SOA Part 3 - Implementation and Development of EDA

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Chief Technology Officer - WSO2

ARTICLE 06 Jul, 2009

Implementing MDM Patterns on the WSO2 SOA Platform

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Chief Technology Officer - WSO2

ARTICLE 16 Jun, 2009

SOA Summer School - SOA Enterprise Architecture Patterns

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Chief Technology Officer - WSO2

ARTICLE 02 Jan, 2009

Fusion: Eventing with SOA Part 2 - Eventing Using Synapse and WSO2 ESB

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ARTICLE 16 Dec, 2008

Fusion: Eventing with SOA - Introduction

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Chief Technology Officer - WSO2

ARTICLE 25 Jul, 2008

Developing Financial Applications with the WSO2 ESB

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Chief Technology Officer - WSO2