Vidura Gamini-Abhaya

Vidura is a Vice President/Head of Solutions Architecture at WSO2.

He is an experienced technologist and an executive with over 15 years of global experience in the software industry having worked in the US, Europe and Australia. Prior to joining WSO2, Vidura spearheaded multiple software projects for WINenergy a leading utility embedded networks provider in Australia. Prior to that he was the software development manager at Creative Technology Solutions. He has given leadership to several software teams building enterprise systems at Virtusa and he was a key member of the telco billing team at MillenniumIT.

Vidura holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia where he still serves as a research associate. His research work has been widely published in international journals and conferences. Vidura also holds a BSc in Information Systems with first class honors from Manchester Metropolitan University, UK in collaboration with Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT). He was awarded the Gold medal for the graduate with the best academic record in the degree program at IIT, in 2001.

Vidura is a certified advanced open water diver. He also enjoys photography, reading, cooking and listening to music.