Lakmal Warusawithana
Vice President and Distinguished Engineer
Lakmal is a Vice President & Distinguished Engineer at WSO2.
In 2005, Lakmal co-founded the thinkCube, the pioneers in developing the next generation of Collaborative Cloud Computing products that are tailored towards Telecom operators. He oversaw the overall engineering process, giving special attention to scalability and service delivery of thinkCube solutions.
Prior to co-founding thinkCube, Lakmal spent four years at ITABS, a company that specialized in Linux based server deployments that came with a custom easy-to-use server management interface.
Lakmal has also presented at numerous events, including ApacheCon, CloudOpen, QCon, JaxLondon, Cloud Expo, Cloudstack Collaboration Conference, WSO2Con and many tech meetups.
Lakmal holds a BSc (Hons) Special in Computer Science from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Content published by Lakmal Warusawithana
BLOG
23 Mar, 2026
Announcing the WSO2 Developer Platform for OpenChoreo 1.0 GA
- Lakmal Warusawithana
- Vice President & Distinguished Engineer - WSO2 LLC
Developer Platform
BLOG
09 Sep, 2025
Platform Engineering is DEAD! Long Live Platform Engineers!
- Lakmal Warusawithana
- Vice President & Distinguished Engineer - WSO2 LLC
Developer Platform
BLOG
04 Jun, 2025
Making Every CPU Count: The Engineering Journey Behind Choreo’s Scale-to-Zero
- Lakmal Warusawithana
- Vice President & Distinguished Engineer - WSO2 LLC
Developer Platform
Engineering
BLOG
25 Feb, 2025
Navigating the Complexity of Internal Developer Platforms: A Guide for Technical Decision Makers
- Lakmal Warusawithana
- Vice President & Distinguished Engineer - WSO2 LLC
Navigating the Complexity of Internal Developer Platforms: A Guide for Technical Decision Makers
ARTICLE
09 Apr, 2024
Cloud Native Middleware: Domain-Driven Design, Cell-Based Architecture, Service Mesh, and More
- Lakmal Warusawithana
- Vice President & Distinguished Engineer - WSO2 LLC
Corporate
BLOG
11 Mar, 2024
Scaling Smart: Introducing Choreo’s Scale-to-Zero for Optimal Resource Utilization
- Lakmal Warusawithana
- Vice President & Distinguished Engineer - WSO2 LLC
Developer Platform
BLOG
01 Nov, 2023
How We Implemented Zero Trust in Choreo
- Lakmal Warusawithana
- Vice President & Distinguished Engineer - WSO2 LLC
Developer Platform
Engineering
BLOG
18 Sep, 2023
Stay Compliant and Informed: Discover Choreo's Logging and Observability Advancements
- Lakmal Warusawithana
- Vice President & Distinguished Engineer - WSO2 LLC
Developer Platform
BLOG
09 Aug, 2023
Unlocking the Power of Programmable Data Planes in Kubernetes with eBPF
- Lakmal Warusawithana
- Vice President & Distinguished Engineer - WSO2 LLC
Developer Platform
Engineering
ARTICLE
22 Feb, 2018
[Blog Post] API Microgateway
- Lakmal Warusawithana
- Vice President & Distinguished Engineer - WSO2 LLC
ARTICLE
19 Oct, 2017
Benefits of a Multi-regional API Management Solution for a Global Enterprise
- Lakmal Warusawithana
- Vice President & Distinguished Engineer - WSO2 LLC
ARTICLE
18 Jun, 2015
[Presentation] Deploy in Scale with Docker, CoreOS, Kubernetes and Apache Stratos
- Lakmal Warusawithana
- Vice President & Distinguished Engineer - WSO2 LLC
ARTICLE
15 Jun, 2015
[Presentation] Containers in Production with Docker, CoreOs, Kubernetes and Apache Stratos
- Lakmal Warusawithana
- Vice President & Distinguished Engineer - WSO2 LLC
ARTICLE
25 Apr, 2015
[Video] Building a PaaS with CloudStack
- Lakmal Warusawithana
- Vice President & Distinguished Engineer - WSO2 LLC
ARTICLE
08 Nov, 2014
[Presentation] Deploying at Scale with PaaS
- Lakmal Warusawithana
- Vice President & Distinguished Engineer - WSO2 LLC
ARTICLE
19 Oct, 2014
[Presentation] Apache Stratos: the PaaS from Apache
- Lakmal Warusawithana
- Vice President & Distinguished Engineer - WSO2 LLC
ARTICLE
29 May, 2014
Why Apache Stratos is the Preferred Choice in the PaaS Space
- Lakmal Warusawithana
- Vice President & Distinguished Engineer - WSO2 LLC
ARTICLE
15 Apr, 2014
[Presentation] Essential Elements of an Enterprise PaaS
- Lakmal Warusawithana
- Vice President & Distinguished Engineer - WSO2 LLC
ARTICLE
17 Jul, 2013
Creating a HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) Cartridge for Stratos 2.0
- Lakmal Warusawithana
- Vice President & Distinguished Engineer - WSO2 LLC