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Srinath Perera

Vice President/ Head of Research
Srinath Perera

Srinath counts over 15 years of experience in software architecture and programming. His expertise encompasses a wide range of specialist areas in the technology space, ranging from data science, software architecture, research, and programming focused on distributed systems.

He is a co-founder of the Apache Axis2 project and a member of the Apache Software Foundation. He has co-architected a number of real-world distributed systems, including Apache Axis2, Apache Airvatha, and Siddhi Complex Event Processing Engine. He has also authored two books and 40+ technical articles.

He leads WSO2’s research team and growth hacking efforts and is a member of the senior leadership team. He also contributes toward both product and business strategy.

Srinath received a Ph.D. from University of Indiana, USA, in 2009 and is a research scientist at the Lanka Software Foundation, which is a non-profit organization that provides a platform for Sri Lankan software engineers to create open source software technology. He’s also a visiting faculty member at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.

When Srinath is not buried in deep technical research, you may find him engrossed in a game of chess. He’s also an avid reader and history buff and enjoys gardening.

Content published by Srinath Perera

BLOG 05 Dec, 2025
BLOG 28 Oct, 2025
Engineering
ARTICLE 08 May, 2024

Unlocking Value with AI

  • Srinath Perera
  • Chief Architect - WSO2 Inc.
Corporate AI
BLOG 13 Mar, 2024
BLOG 29 Aug, 2023
Corporate Integration Developer Platform
BLOG 08 Feb, 2023

Architecture in the Age of APIs

  • Srinath Perera
  • Chief Architect - WSO2 Inc.
Developer Platform Engineering
14 Oct, 2019

Applying AI to Enterprise Integration: How Ready Are We?

  • Srinath Perera
  • Chief Architect - WSO2 Inc.
23 Sep, 2019

How to Get Over the Serverless Integration Hump

  • Srinath Perera
  • Chief Architect - WSO2 Inc.
ARTICLE 21 Aug, 2019

How Serverless Can Shape Enterprise Integration

  • Srinath Perera
  • Chief Architect - WSO2 Inc.
22 May, 2019
09 Apr, 2019
ARTICLE 14 May, 2018

What is Stream Processing?

  • Srinath Perera
  • Chief Architect - WSO2 Inc.
ARTICLE 12 Feb, 2018

Stream Processing 101: From SQL to Streaming SQL in 10 Minutes

  • Srinath Perera
  • Chief Architect - WSO2 Inc.
WHITE PAPER 26 Jul, 2017

The Different Levels of Streaming Analytics: Use Cases

  • Srinath Perera
  • Chief Architect - WSO2 Inc.
WHITE PAPER 17 Nov, 2016

IoT Analytics: Using Big Data to Architect IoT Solutions

  • Srinath Perera
  • Chief Architect - WSO2 Inc.
BLOG 09 May, 2016
ARTICLE 05 Apr, 2016

[Blog Post] Value Proposition of Big Data after a Decade

  • Srinath Perera
  • Chief Architect - WSO2 Inc.
ARTICLE 04 Apr, 2016

[Blog Post] Thinking Deeply about IoT Analytics

  • Srinath Perera
  • Chief Architect - WSO2 Inc.
ARTICLE 22 Mar, 2016
ARTICLE 22 Mar, 2016

[Blog Post] WSO2 Machine Learner: Why Would You Care?

  • Srinath Perera
  • Chief Architect - WSO2 Inc.
ARTICLE 21 Mar, 2016
ARTICLE 21 Mar, 2016

[Blog Post] Patterns for Streaming Realtime Analytics

  • Srinath Perera
  • Chief Architect - WSO2 Inc.
ARTICLE 16 Oct, 2015
ARTICLE 01 Oct, 2015
ARTICLE 19 Mar, 2015
BLOG 10 Feb, 2014

We Head to Strata 2014 This Week

  • Srinath Perera
  • Chief Architect - WSO2 Inc.
ARTICLE 05 Nov, 2013
ARTICLE 03 Jul, 2012

Consider the Apache Cassandra database by Dr. Srinath Perera

  • Srinath Perera
  • Chief Architect - WSO2 Inc.
ARTICLE 15 Jun, 2012

[Blog Post] Scaling WSO2 Stratos

  • Srinath Perera
  • Chief Architect - WSO2 Inc.
ARTICLE 03 May, 2012

[Blog Post] How to Measure the Performance of a Server?

  • Srinath Perera
  • Chief Architect - WSO2 Inc.
ARTICLE 19 Apr, 2012
ARTICLE 22 Jan, 2012

Human Tasks: Bridging Bits to Real World

  • Srinath Perera
  • Chief Architect - WSO2 Inc.
ARTICLE 22 Aug, 2011

Comparison of WSO2 Stratos with Other PaaS Offerings

  • Srinath Perera
  • Chief Architect - WSO2 Inc.
ARTICLE 14 Jul, 2010

Multi-Tenant SOA Middleware for Cloud Computing

  • Srinath Perera
  • Chief Architect - WSO2 Inc.
ARTICLE 23 Jun, 2010

Clustering Landscape for WSO2 Stack

  • Srinath Perera
  • Chief Architect - WSO2 Inc.
ARTICLE 15 Dec, 2009
ARTICLE 16 Nov, 2009

Introducing WSO2 Cloud Services Gateway

  • Srinath Perera
  • Chief Architect - WSO2 Inc.