31 Jul, 2025

Managing APIs Across Federated Gateways

Modern enterprises increasingly adopt federated architectures for API management, distributing APIs across multiple gateways for scalability, resilience, and localized autonomy. Operating across diverse cloud regions, data centers, or business units each with its own gateway often leads to fragmented API ecosystems, operational silos, and governance challenges. This distributed approach, while beneficial, presents significant hurdles in maintaining consistent API governance, streamlining lifecycle management, and ensuring unified operational visibility.

Explore the challenges, strategies, and best practices for effectively managing APIs within federated gateway ecosystems using a unified control plane to enable centralized governance, seamless policy distribution, and cohesive developer experience. Join us to learn how to bring order to distribute API environments while balancing control, agility, and autonomy.

Speakers

Thilini Shanika

Thilini Shanika

Associate Director and Head of Engineering, APIM BU

WSO2

Thilini is an Associate Director at WSO2, leading the engineering team for the API Manager Business Unit. She drives the technical strategy and execution of WSO2’s API management product line.<br/><br/>With over a decade of experience at WSO2, Thilini has extensive expertise in API management, particularly in security, API design and governance. Her leadership drives product development, fosters innovation, and ensures solutions align with evolving customer requirements. She empowers her team to consistently deliver high-quality API solutions that meet the needs of diverse industries while advancing the future of API management.