Speakers
Dr. Donald F. Ferguson was vice president and chief technology officer for Dell’s Software Group from June 2012 to October 2013. Dell named Don a Senior Fellow. He is currently one of only three Dell Senior Fellows. Don led the architecture, implementation design, technical strategy and innovation for Dell Software Group products and solutions. Some of Don’s recent solution focus at Dell has been on hybrid cloud management, BYOD/mobility management, IoT, PaaS/API management and end-to-end, next generation connected security.
Closing keynote
Some Essentials for Modern Solution Development
Andrew Bird is the Senior Vice President of Product Management and Development at West. He possesses eighteen years of experience encompassing Product Management, Software Development, SaaS, PaaS, Telecommunications, Call Center, Operations, and Sales Engineering. He holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Economics from the University of Utah. He has a proven track record for analyzing market needs, formulating organizational designs and constructing innovative corporate vision & strategy components, while facilitating seamless transitions throughout the process. His expertise also includes product life-cycle management and development methodologies.
Brian Grant has been at Google for eight years. He was previously a technical lead of Borg’s control plane and of the Omega project. He is now a lead on Kubernetes, and was the creator of core primitives such as Pods and Labels.
Keynote
Kubernetes: A Platform for Automating Deployment, Scaling, and Operations
Mike’s research is focused on software technology, platforms, and practices that enable technology professionals to deliver prescient customer experiences and breakthrough operational efficiency. His key technology and platform coverage areas are big data strategy, Hadoop, advanced analytics, machine learning, data science practices, predictive apps design, and emerging technologies that make software faster and smarter. Mike is also a leading expert on the intersection of business strategy, architecture, design, and creative collaboration.
Sanjiva has been involved with open source for many years and is an active member of the Apache Software Foundation. He was the original creator of Apache SOAP and has been part of Apache Axis, Apache Axis2 and most Apache Web services projects. He founded WSO2 after having spent nearly 8 years in IBM Research, where he was one of the founders of the Web services platform. During that time, he co-authored many Web services specifications including WSDL, BPEL4WS, WS-Addressing, WS-RF and WS-Eventing.
Opening Keynote
Helping You Connect the World
For the past six years, Aaron Sandeen served under Governor Brewer in multiple capacities including being appointed the State Chief Information Officer for four years. Aaron has worked for industry giants Microsoft, Intel and UnitedHealth Group. Aaron’s newest venture is in the startup space where he has co-founded Zuggand and is focused on helping organizations accelerate change through digital transformation.
Afkham’s key role is to drive efforts focused on the development and enhancement of WSO2 middleware.
He is an elected member of the Apache Software Foundation and a Project Management Committee member and a long-time committer for a number of projects. He specializes in distributed computing, highly available and scalable applications, Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technologies, and service-oriented architecture.
Tutorial
Carbon 5 Preview with WSO2 Gateway and WSO2 Microservices Server
Amila leads the Cloud team at WSO2. In addition to his development efforts, Amila has also provided technology consulting on customer engagements including customer QuickStart programs. Prior to joining WSO2, Amila was involved in developing value added services for mobile operators and specialized in Java at this time. Amila is also an active contributor to the Apache Synapse project of the Apache Software Foundation.
Tutorial
WSO2 DevOps: How to Deploy, Manage, Administer and Monitor WSO2 Products
Andrew Aitken is the Global Open Source Practice Leader at Wipro. He is on the Board of OSEHRA, an initiative spearheaded by the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide more cost effective healthcare solutions for veterans through the development of an open source electronic health records community. He has personally worked with organizations such as IBM, Thomson Reuters, the U.S. Navy, Microsoft, the government of Japan, Intel, and others, assisting them with developing their open source strategies. He has been a pioneer in the development of proprietary-to-open source, governance and commercialization models for open source. He is considered a thought leader in the emerging trend of applying open source development methods to the corporate development and innovation processes.
Session
Penguins, Elephants, Squids, …. Hooray! Or Why Open Source is Taking Over the Enterprise
Anjana focuses on the development of the WSO2 Data Services Server. He has carried out several onsite customer engagements, primarily focused on integration enabled by the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus.
He is a contributor to Apache Axis2, and participated in the Google Summer of Code 2006 where he worked on the Apache Mirae project in implementing a multimedia messaging service transport. He also has experience in mobile computing, service-oriented architecture for the European Union’s Information Society Technologies, and Java enterprise Web development.
Tutorial
WSO2 Analytics Platform: The One Stop Shop for All Your Data Needs
Asanka spearheads the company’s customer facing technical tasks and oversees the solution architecture and technical sales functions. He also provides consulting to key WSO2 customers and conducts workshops specifically targeted at enterprise architects and technical managers.
Asanka has over 15 years of industry experience, which include implementing projects ranging from desktop and web applications through to highly scalable distributed systems and SOAs in the financial domain, mobile platforms, and business integration solutions. His areas of specialization include application architecture, development using Java technologies, C/C++ on Linux and Windows platforms. He is a committer of the Apache Software Foundation.
Sessions
Data to Consumer: End-to-End Middleware Capabilities
Pattern Driven Enterprise Architecture
Benoy Jose is a Software Architect specialized in developing SOA based applications for Salesforce. He has over 15 years of software development experience with Java, Salesforce and various middleware technologies. Currently he heads the Salesforce practice for Salesforce at Marlabs in New Jersey.
Session
Single Sign-on Solutions for Salesforce with WSO2 Identity Server
Chamith currently oversees WSO2’s overall system and network operations.
He has over five years of experience in systems and network administration. He was an original author of the Texplorer Project and has interests in platform and infrastructure virtualization, distributed computing, IT security, load balancing, cloud monitoring and backup systems.
Tutorial
WSO2 DevOps: How to Deploy, Manage, Administer and Monitor WSO2 Products
Chathura focuses on WSO2 BPS and the overall BPM strategy. He has also contributed extensively to the WSO2 Governance Registry and WSO2 ESB. In addition, he was involved in the Apache Synapse and Apache Axis2 projects.
Tutorial
Enterprise Security Uncovered
Chintana is a part of the Solution Architecture team. He also started the WSO2 Web Services Frameworks for Ruby and Perl.
In addition to his product development efforts, he has provided technology consulting on customer engagements including architectural guidance, integration of web services, print process automation and online management solutions. Chintana is a committer on the Apache Stonehenge project and also started WSF/Ruby and WSF/Perl.
Sessions
Iterative Architecture
Deployment Patterns and Capacity Planning
David is responsible for applying architecture principles and practices to guide iJET through business, information, process, and technology changes necessary to power iJET’s risk management platform. He is a passionate technologist with over 15 years of IT experience supporting large commercial and US Federal Government projects. David specializes in implementing solutions with a focus on service-oriented architecture, security, scalability, and testability.
Dinusha is the product lead of WSO2 App Manager at WSO2. She has five years of experience at WSO2 and has contributed to several product developments. WSO2 Data Services Server and WSO2 API Manager are products that she has contributed to before joining WSO2 App Manager. Additionally she has worked with many customer engagements.
Dmitry oversees all projects related to WSO2’s cloud offerings.
Prior to WSO2, he worked at Quest Software (now a part of Dell) as Director of Cloud Solutions, and later co-founded Jelastic PaaS and led Jelastic’s sales, marketing, customer, and partner relationships. Dmitry has been a featured speaker at multiple industry events including Microsoft TechEd, VMware VMWorld, Parallels Summit, Quest Innovate, and Technology Experts Conference (TEC).
Tutorial
Revolutionizing WSO2 PaaS with Kubernetes & App Factory
Session
WSO2 Cloud: What it is, How it Works, and Where it’s Going
Gregory has been with Trimble for 22 years in a variety of technical and management roles around positioning and communications technologies, including 15 years leading research into GPS, optical based measurement methods, and a variety of indoor positioning techniques. He currently serves as a Senior Technologist focused on both assisting in the development of new technologies internally as well as identifying and integrating new and useful external technologies.
Greg is a Senior Software Engineer with 27 years of experience. He holds certifications in Java Secure Programming and SharePoint development. He completed 20 years with the U.S. Air Force. He is a seasoned professional with experience in a wide range of technologies, and leadership skills. Greg’s expertise includes leading teams to assess, design, implement, and maintain web-based solutions for small, medium, and large government and commercial clients.
Session
Real-World Implementation of Federated Authentication
Hariharan is an enterprise architecture and strategy professional with 18+ years of experience in the IT industry. He heads the enterprise architecture, integration and information architecture practice (SOA, BPM, EDQ and MDM services) at Aspire Systems. He specializes in retail, eCommerce, B2B, research, pharma and media domains.
Session
Rejuvenate Retail Integration for Limitless Possibilities
Imesh is the Product Lead of WSO2 Private PaaS. He is a committer and a Project Management Committee (PMC) member of the Apache Stratos project. Imesh has provided technical consultancy for many customers on designing and implementing enterprise integration and platform as a service (PaaS) solutions at WSO2.
Tutorial
Revolutionizing WSO2 PaaS with Kubernetes & App Factory
Isabelle brings to her role nearly 20 years of technology, consulting, and management experience in Java, application development, middleware and service-oriented architecture. She recently managed the API Manager beta program and has been helping customers around the globe to adopt this product. In her role, she works closely with the WSO2 engineering, sales, and marketing teams. She strongly believes that successful product management requires a great understanding of our customers and the problems they hope to resolve, as well as a strong understanding of the products themselves. Hence, Isabelle regularly participates in WSO2 QuickStart programs and services engagements.
Joe earned a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Michigan. Since then he has been at the University of Texas where he has built infrastructure software in various contexts. At TACC, he is a member of the Advanced Computing Interfaces group where he works on the Agave “science as a service” platform for enabling next generation science gateways. He has extensive experience building web services and development platforms for a wide variety of clients and applications.
Session
Implementing SSO Across our Science-as-a-Service Web and API Stack at TACC
Kasun focuses on the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus. In addition to his product development efforts, he has provided technology consulting on customer engagements, helping to successfully implement solutions for integrating Web services, SAP, FIX, and mobile services.
He is an elected member of the Apache Software Foundation and a Project Management Committee member and committer for the Apache Synapse open source ESB project. He took part in the Google Summer of Code for 2007, working on the Apache Axis2/C project. He also contributed to the Apache Rampart/C project, having implemented WS-Trust specification for its federated identity framework for Web services. He is proficient in C/C++, specializing in Web services, information retrieval systems, and enterprise search platforms, focusing primarily on indexing components.
Tutorial
Carbon 5 Preview with WSO2 Gateway and WSO2 Microservices Server
Lakmal is Director of Cloud Architecture at WSO2. Also taking on the role of Vice President of Apache Stratos, Lakmal focuses on the development of WSO2 Private PaaS, which is built on top of the Apache Stratos project.
In 2005, Lakmal co-founded the thinkCube, the pioneers in developing the next generation of Collaborative Cloud Computing products that are tailored towards Telecom operators. He oversaw the overall engineering process, giving special attention to scalability and service delivery of thinkCube solutions. Prior to co-founding thinkCube, Lakmal spent four years at ITABS, a company that specialized in Linux based server deployments that came with a custom easy-to-use server management interface. He has also presented at numerous events, including ApacheCon, CloudOpen, QCon, JaxLondon, Cloudstack Collaboration Conference, WSO2Con and many tech meetups.
Lakmal holds a B.Sc. (Hons) Special in Computer Science from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Session
WSO2 Virtual Hackathon: Big Data in the Cloud Case Study
Manuranga’s focus areas include programming languages and algorithm design as well as dynamic front-ends.
Sessions
Building Awesome Personal Dashboards with WSO2 Dashboard Server
Building Web Apps with Reusable UI Components and Composition
Michael Gardner is a managing director and head of the BNY Mellon Innovation Center at Silicon Valley. Mike is responsible for ensuring access to the best and latest Silicon Valley expertise and technology, to supplement other company innovation centers and technologists around the world, and to apply to the company’s technology initiatives and projects. Mike is building a team of actively engaged software architects and engineers, and relationships with universities, startups, and the venture investment community to ensure the broadest spread of technology acquisition efforts. A Silicon Valley veteran, Mike has nearly 30 years of experience in software engineering and executive leadership.
Session
Cross Section of an API Program: The NEXEN API Program at BNY Mellon
Milan Joshi, works as a Technical Lead in Barclays Technology Center in India. He works across SOAP/REST based web service developments also leveraging the usage of WSO2 products such as ESB, BAM and CEP as and when required.
Nuwan works closely with WSO2 customers on enterprise solutions. His experience spans across multiple verticals such as e-government, education, e-commerce and healthcare. Prior joining the WSO2 solutions architecture team Nuwan worked as a product lead in WSO2 engineering team and has provided technical leadership for products such as WSO2 User Engagement Server (UES), WSO2 Enterprise Store (ES) and Jaggeryjs framework. Nuwan has also contributed to projects such as API Manager and Carbon within WSO2 and to the Apache Web Services and Shindig projects in the Apache Software Foundation.
In 2007 and 2008, Nuwan was involved in research and development for the European Union’s Information Society Technologies SOA and mobile computing projects. He is also a member of the British Computer Society.
Nuwan’s main area of focus is on architectural, research, and development aspects of WSO2 API Manager. He has also been involved in many customer engagements where he has assisted people in developing their solutions architecture. Prior to joining WSO2, he worked at Informatics International Limited as a senior software engineer.
Peter is currently Global Lead for Educational Technology Innovation at NYU. He has held roles of CIO, CTO, PMO Director, Program Director for NYU and member schools. Prior to NYU, worked in the financial services industry leading technology initiatives for the American and New York Stock Exchanges. He has consulted for the City of NY teaching project management to a broad group of managers in City government. He developed an experimental diagnostic system for a Pediatric Neurologist at North Shore University Hospital capturing digital Cognitive Evoked Potentials. Peter started his career in the Defense world developing Navy Avionics diagnostic and information systems for various platforms including the F18.
Peter holds a Doctorate in Computer Science, a Masters of Science in Management and Bachelors of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is PMI PMP certified and has taught graduate and undergraduate management classes as well as PMP certification classes. Peter also has an agile process Scrum Master certification.
Prior to Prabath’s current role, he chaired the Management Committee of Integration Technologies. He is a member of OASIS Identity Metasystem Interoperability (IMI) TC, OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) TC, and OASIS Security Services (SAML) TC. Prabath is also a member of Apache Axis PMC.
Tutorial
Enterprise Security Uncovered
Sessions
Securing your APIs: Patterns and More
Modeling Identity
Prakash is responsible for initiatives that are critical to Trimble’s software strategy, providing leadership to software-focused development activities. He is a software technologist with over 20 years of engineering and management experience. Prior to joining Trimble in 2007 through the acquisition of the then leader in Mobile Resource Management solutions, @Road Inc., Prakash co-founded Everypath, which pioneered the concept of Enterprise Mobile Task Automation in the early days of mobile computing. At Everypath, he managed distributed development teams in North America, Asia and Europe, managed professional services, and worked with the sales & marketing team to evangelize the company’s products. He has also contributed to successful companies like Prism Solutions, Informix, Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, and Alltel Information Services in various engineering and management roles.
Panel Discussion
Choosing a Platform for Innovation
Ramith currently leads the WSO2 Message Broker team. He has experience in Java/J2EE and C++ related technologies.
Tutorial
WSO2 Integration Platform Deep Dive
Session
Rethinking Message Brokering with WSO2 Message Broker 3.0
Ratnavel is an integration architect in the fields of SOA, enterprise integration solutions and enterprise and solution architecture, with over eight years experience in the information technology field. He has proven success as a strategic/architectural consultant experienced in managing, delivering, and deploying small, medium as well as large-scale initiatives. His specialties include SOA, Web services, integration, BPM, BAM, enterprise architecture and solution and technical architecture.
Sagara focuses on the WSO2 Application Server. Sagara specializes in J2EE, Spring, Web services and enterprise integration related technologies. In addition to his product development efforts at WSO2 he is also a PMC member of Apache Axis and Apache Web Services Projects and is an active contributor to the Apache Axis2, Woden, Web services and Nuvem projects. He currently serves as the Vice President of the Apache Web Services project.
Sessions
Introduction to the All New WSO2 Governance Centre
Building Your Own Store with WSO2 Enterprise Store: The WSO2 Store Case Study
Sameera focuses on WSO2 Carbon and WSO2 Application Server. As a WSO2 intern in 2007, he developed an Axiom version of Rhino’s E4X implementation. He has also provided technology consulting on customer engagements, including QuickStart programs, business process execution language (BPEL), and cloud projects.
He has contributed to a number of Apache Software Foundation (ASF) projects, including Apache Axis2 and Axiom, and was also a co-developer of Apache Rampart2. During the 2007 Google Summer of Code, he contributed to the development of JAX-WS templates for the Apache Axis2/Java Codegen tool.
Tutorial
Carbon 5 Preview with WSO2 Gateway and WSO2 Microservices Server
Session
Carbon 5: A Preview
Samisa has more than a decade of experience working for systems integrators and software vendors with global exposure. In his current role he leads the development of WSO2’s Carbon enterprise middleware platform.
Samisa has been a committer of the Apache Web services project since May 2004, and he initiated the Apache Axis2/C project. Having published two books: RESTFul PHP Web Services, and PHP Team Development, in addition to several articles, he has also spoken at numerous industry conferences, including ApacheCon, ZendCon and IndicThreads among others.
Samisa is a visiting lecturer at the Computer Science and Engineering Department of University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
Sessions
New IT Business Models and Open Source Middleware Economic Value
Application Services Governance
Saqib has been in the IT industry for the last 15 years implementing open source and open standards based solutions at Seagate. He is experienced in OpenStack, Apache Solr OpenID, SAML, OAuth and FIDO. Saqib is passionate about strong authentication, specially the open standards based FIDO U2F and FIDO UAF.
Session
Going Open Source for Identity Management— The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Shankar focuses on the WSO2 Carbon enterprise middleware and WSO2 Cloud middleware platform. Additionally, Shankar has provided technology consulting on customer engagements, including cloud, distributed systems, enterprise integration, enterprise service bus (ESB), governance, and security solutions. Shankar is an Apache Software Foundation member and committer of various Apache projects. With more than ten years of industry experience, he has a strong background in cloud computing, service-oriented architecture, security, governance, enterprise integration and telecommunication billing systems.
Tutorial
WSO2 Integration Platform Deep Dive
Session
Planning Your Cloud Strategy
Shan specializes in mobile technology with over 10 years of experience in that field. He has a strong background in telecommunication software development and is a hardcore coder in Android and iOS platforms. He also lectures in advanced Android and iOS application development.
Prior to joining WSO2, he was working as the CTO/Director of Microimage Mobile Media for almost 15 years. He played a key role in engineering products where Microimage has won many local and international awards. He is also a Typographist and a specialist in local languages and font technologies. He worked as an external consultant to Microsoft, Sri Lanka and ICTA, Sri Lanka.
Tutorial
Your Path to IoT & Mobility with WSO2
Session
Connected Device Management for Enterprise Mobility and Beyond
Sriskandarajah Suhothayan is a Technical Lead at WSO2. He leads the WSO2 Complex Event Processor team working with realtime event processing and parallel computing solutions. In addition to his product development efforts he also provides technology consulting on customer engagements.
He drove the design and implementation of Siddhi-CEP at University of Moratuwa during his bachelor’s degree – a high performance complex event processing engine, which is now used as the core engine of WSO2 Complex Event Processor. He has also published several papers & articles on real time complex event processing systems.
Tutorial
WSO2 Analytics Platform: The One Stop Shop for All Your Data Needs
Sumedha has contributed to the successful implementation of data, SAP and repository-based integration projects, as well many WSO2 QuickStart development consulting engagements. He is an active committer with the Apache Axis2 project. Sumedha’s article, Carbon: towards a server building framework for SOA platform, was featured at the Fifth International Workshop on Middleware for Service Oriented Computing in New York.
Tutorial
Your Path to IoT & Mobility with WSO2
Sessions
WSO2 App Manager: Managing Application Lifecycles Across Your Enterprise
WSO2 Platform for IoT
Urs Huerlimann is an integration architect at SUVA. He participated in the “service streamlining” project since its inception, focussing on WSO2 ESB custom integration and security tasks. Urs has a Master of Advanced Studies Degree in Software Engineering and has been working for SUVA since 2006 in various Java and integration projects.
Session
Enhancing Company-wide SSO-Propagation with WSO2 ESB’s Custom Mediators
