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.
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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.
Bijira: API PaaS for the Cloud and AI-Native Era
The rapid evolution of cloud-native architectures and AI-driven applications demands a new era of API management. This session introduces Bijira, a cutting-edge, AI-native, and scalable SaaS platform built to revolutionize API operations. Bijira streamlines governance, significantly boosts developer productivity through integrated AI, and offers robust Model Context Protocol (MCP) management.
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Pubudu Gunatilaka is an Associate Director at WSO2, leading the product architecture for WSO2 API Manager. With over 9 years of experience in API management and cloud-native architectures, he has played a key role in advancing WSO2's API management solutions. A recognized thought leader in the industry, Pubudu has shared his expertise at global conferences such as APIDays, Nordic APIs, and Conf42, along with various tech meetups. He is dedicated to driving innovation in API management, Kubernetes-native API gateways, and API security to help enterprises build scalable and future-ready API strategies.
WSO2 API Manager Roadmap and Vision
We’re no longer just adapting to change, we're being propelled by it. The convergence of AI, quantum and global digital modernisation is redefining how businesses operate, compete, and scale. But with this disruption comes friction: growing complexity, increased cyber risks, fragmented infrastructure, evolving regulation, and a challenging economic environment.
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Prior to joining WSO2, Chris worked for one of the largest UK government departments delivering digital platforms and services for its citizens and building critical software and systems. Chris has over 25 years of experience in software design, development, solution and enterprise architecture and operations for large-scale enterprises. He works with enterprises across the globe to help them design and implement platforms and API/integration architectures that help these enterprises to produce world-class digital experiences.
Compliance Without Slowing Down Innovation
Innovation is the bedrock of software development. It's all about the balance! So how does compliance factor in with the perception of being conflicting when it truly can be complimentary.
Fundamental principles of security compliance at WSO2:
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The Role of an IDP in Application Modernization
In this panel, we'll explore how an internal developer platform (IDP) can significantly ease the complexities of application modernization. We'll delve into real-world examples, demonstrating how an IDP helps organizations overcome common challenges such as managing diverse technology stacks, streamlining deployment pipelines, and ensuring consistent governance across modernized applications.
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Before joining WSO2, Kanchana served as the CEO of Platformer Cloud Pty Ltd. He played a key role in launching Platformer, developing its products, and leading a talented team of engineers. Kanchana was also instrumental in initiating the Kubernetes Community (CNCF-backed) in Sri Lanka and establishing Platformer as the first certified Kubernetes Certified Service and Training Provider in Sri Lanka. Prior to starting Platformer, he worked with several multinational companies in New Zealand and Australia, where he delivered various new technologies and services. He was recognized as a Distinguished Architect at EDS (New Zealand) for his leadership in the global open source community.
OpenChoreo: An Open Source Blueprint for Internal Developer Platforms
Platform engineering teams often find themselves reinventing the wheel—layering abstractions over Kubernetes, stitching together CI/CD pipelines, securing workloads, and wiring observability, all while trying to offer a consistent developer experience. This challenge is precisely what led us to build Choreo, WSO2’s internal developer platform (IDP) as a service.
But what if you could bring that same production-tested model to your own infrastructure?
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Sameera Jayasoma is a Distinguished Engineer and Vice President at WSO2, where he leads the technical direction of the Ballerina compiler and platform for cloud-native integration. With over 15 years of experience, he specializes in Java, Ballerina, Go, programming language design, compilers, and distributed systems. He is also the lead architect of Open Source Choreo, an internal developer platform. Sameera is a dedicated mentor and frequent conference speaker. He is passionate about advancing developer productivity through technical innovation.
Engineering the Backbone: How We Built Our Internal Developer Platform
In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, building and maintaining a robust internal developer platform (IDP) presents significant challenges. In this talk, Lakmal will share:
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Lakmal Warusawithana is the VP and Distinguished Engineer at WSO2, with extensive experience as a Cloud Architect and Platform Engineer specializing in cloud-native technologies. With a proven track record in designing and implementing scalable platforms, he has been instrumental in simplifying enterprise development through modern infrastructure solutions. Previously, he served as Vice President of the Apache Stratos PaaS Project and co-founded thinkCube in 2005, where he led engineering, scalability, and service delivery for Collaborative Cloud Computing products tailored to telecom operators. A seasoned speaker, Lakmal has shared his expertise at major industry events, including ApacheCon, CloudOpen, QCon, JaxLondon, Cloud Expo, CloudStack Collaboration Conference, and WSO2Con.
How Internal Developer Platforms Enable Developer Self-Service
In today’s digital-first world, enterprises are defined by the digital experiences they deliver. At the core of this transformation are enterprise software developers—the architects of these digital experiences. However, they often face challenges such as fragmented tooling, complex dependencies, and inefficient information that hinder productivity.
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Tishan is an associate director at WSO2, currently leading API-first team in Choreo product. In his current role, Tishan heads the effort to help enterprises leverage API-first development methodology in their enterprise architecture through Choreo which involves features like Marketplace and Connection story. He has experience over a decade in enterprise integration with WSO2. He has helped multiple clients to design and implement their enterprise integration journey using WSO2 on-prem products in the form of on-site consultations, design reviews, and support issues before moving on to the SaaS offering, Choreo. Experience gathered during that tenure is gearing his current contributions in API-first domain. Tishan also has experience in the Complex Event Processing domain prior to his integration journey specializing in distributed event processing. He is a published author and presenter in that domain and a contributor to “Siddhi” open source event processing project.
Principles of a Good Internal Developer Platform
Internal developer platforms (IDPs) promise to tame cloud complexity and give engineers a paved road to production, yet too many initiatives stall because the platform is treated as a bundle of tools rather than a product. In this session, you’ll discover the principles that separate a truly empowering IDP from an expensive console nobody loves, whether you’re building one in-house or evaluating a vendor.
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Nuwan Dias is a Vice President and Deputy Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at WSO2, where he leads advancements in Platform Engineering, API management and Cloud-Native architectures. He is the Product Manager for Choreo, WSO2’s AI-Native Internal Developer Platform (IDP). With over 15 years of experience, Nuwan has played a key role in shaping WSO2's products and has contributed with architectures and solutions for Fortune 500 companies, including Boeing, Verizon, Nissan, eBay and more. Nuwan is the author of Microservices Security in Action and a prominent speaker at global tech conferences, where he shares insights on the future of Platform Engineering, API management and Security.
What’s New in Choreo?
This session will provide an in-depth look at the latest features in Choreo, WSO2's AI-native internal developer platform (IDP) as a service, designed to empower platform engineers and application developers to deliver cloud native applications quickly, efficiently, and intelligently.
These include:
- New feature capabilities helping developers and platform engineers.
- Advancements in AI within the platform.
- The new dedicated EU region enables data residency, improves latency, and makes compliance easy for EU customers.
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Before joining WSO2, Kanchana served as the CEO of Platformer Cloud Pty Ltd. He played a key role in launching Platformer, developing its products, and leading a talented team of engineers. Kanchana was also instrumental in initiating the Kubernetes Community (CNCF-backed) in Sri Lanka and establishing Platformer as the first certified Kubernetes Certified Service and Training Provider in Sri Lanka. Prior to starting Platformer, he worked with several multinational companies in New Zealand and Australia, where he delivered various new technologies and services. He was recognized as a Distinguished Architect at EDS (New Zealand) for his leadership in the global open source community.