Nirmal Fernando

Nirmal is a Director - Head of Engineering, Solutions BU at WSO2 who helps organizations solve their business problems using the WSO2 middleware stack. He has presented in several workshops, meetups, and conferences organized by WSO2.

His areas of interest include data science, machine learning, cloud computing, microservices, and API management. He has contributed to the Ballerina programming language’s testing and documentation framework and has led, designed, and developed WSO2 Stream Processor 4.0, WSO2 Machine Learner, the evolutionary PaaS framework, and Apache Stratos - where he was a PMC member and a committer.

Over the years, Nirmal has actively been involved in open source projects like Apache Tuscany, Apache JClouds, Apache Synapse and Kubernetes (in its initial days). He has also participated in Google Summer of Code twice. He has a BSc (Hons) from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.

Nirmal loves singing and is also very interested in cricket.