Sanjiva Weerawarana

Sanjiva Weerawarana
Born Colombo, Sri Lanka
Fields Computer Scientist
Institutions Purdue University
IBM
WSO2
Alma mater Royal College, Colombo
Kent State University
Purdue University
Known for Apache Software Foundation
WSDL
WSO2
Notable awards Red Hat Summit Award

Sanjiva Weerawarana is a CEO, software developer and open source evangelist. He is known for:

He is currently Chairman and CEO of WSO2 Inc. He lives in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He is a visiting professor and lecturer at the University of Moratuwa and a board alumnus of the Open Source Initiative.

Background

Weerawarana attended Kent State University, majoring in applied mathematics / computer science, before completing a PhD at Purdue University. He then joined IBM Research working in Hawthorne, New York, until he left to found the startup WSO2. He currently lives in Colombo.

Open Source

Weerawarana has been involved with the Apache Software Foundation since 2000 when he worked on the original Apache SOAP project. Weerawarana is an elected Member of the Foundation and is a committer on several projects. A complete and current listing of Apache projects in which he is involved is available here: Apache Committers.

In 2004 he founded the Lanka Software Foundation to encourage involvement in Open Source from Sri Lankans. And he is a director there.

Publications

Weerawarana has many research publications. A full list is available here: Notable research publications include:

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