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Prabath Siriwardena

Prabath Siriwardena is an identity evangelist, an author, a blogger, and the Vice President of Security Architecture at WSO2 with more than 12 years of industry experience in designing and building critical Identity and Access Management infrastructure for global enterprises, including many Fortune 100/500 companies. He spent most of his time in last 12 years with the WSO2 IAM team, in leading the development of the open source WSO2 Identity Server, which is used by hundreds of top companies and more than 500 Universities globally, and also within the open source communities.

WSO2 Identity Server is one of the top leading open source access management products. It serves more than 100 million identities globally and handles more than 1 million authentication requests on daily basis. In 2018, the leading analyst firm KuppingerCole named WSO2 Identity Server as a leader in their Leadership Compass for Access & Federation and also a leader in the Leadership Compass for Customer IAM (CIAM), and in 2019 KuppingerCole named WSO2 Identity Server as an overall leader in the Leadership Compass for Identity APIs. Both Gartner and Forrester have quoted WSO2 Identity Server in their reports multiple times.

As a technology evangelist, Prabath has published seven books, including Microservices Security in Action (Manning) , Advanced API Security (Apress) and Microservices for the Enterprise (Apress). He blogs on various topics from blockchain, PSD2, GDPR, IAM to microservices security. He also runs a YouTube channel.

Prabath has spoken at RSAConference, Identiverse (Cloud Identity Summit), European Identity Conference (Keynote 2015), Consumer Identity World USA (Keynote 2018), API World (Advisory Board 2018), Microservices World, API Strategy & Practice Con, QCon, OSCON, LASCON, Cloud Security Alliance, Block World, Ellucian Live and WSO2Con (Keynote 2018) - and travelled the world conducting workshops/meetups to evangelize IAM communities. He is also the founder of the Silicon Valley IAM User Group, which is the largest IAM meetup in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Prabath was awarded with Outstanding Contributor, Client Delight, Most Valuable Person awards, consecutively for 10 years since he joined WSO2 and in 2007, he was nominated for the Most Outstanding Young ICT professional award in Sri Lanka by ICTA.

Boooks (Author)

Conferences (Speaker)

  • The Change Management in the Data Centre (2020, London)
  • KNOW Identity (2020, Las Vegas)
  • Microservices Conference (2020, Turkey)
  • Ellucian Live (2020, Orlando | 2019, New Orleans)
  • Microservices World (2019, San Jose)
  • The Millennium Alliance - CISO - WEST (2019, Las Vegas)
  • WSO2 Integration Summit (Oct 2019, San Francisco | Sept 2019, New York)
  • RSA Conference (2018, San Francisco)
  • Identiverse (2018, Boston)
  • Consumer Identity World (2018, Seattle (Keynote))
  • Block World (2018, San Jose)
  • API World (2018, San Jose | 2017, San Jose | 2016, San Jose)
  • Cloud Security Alliance (2018, Seattle)
  • LASCON (2018, Austin | 2016 Austin)
  • WSO2Con (2018, London | 2018 San Francisco (Keynote) | 2017, London | 2017, San Francisco | 2015 San Francisco | 2015, London| 2014, San Francisco | 2014, Barcelona | 2014, Colombo| 2013, London | 2013, San Francisco | 2012, Colombo | 2011, Colombo)
  • Cloud Identity Summit (2017, Chicago | 2016, New Orleans)
  • GSMA Mobile World Congres (2017, San Francisco)
  • Global Software Architecture Conference (2017, Santa Clara)
  • Internet Identity Workshop (Oct 2016, Mountain View | Oct 2015, Mountain View)
  • Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit (2016, Mountain View)
  • European Identity Conference (2015, Munich (Keynote) | 2014, Munich | 2012, Munich)
  • QCon (2015, Sao Paulo)
  • Google Developer Group (GDG) DevFest (2014, Colombo)
  • API Strategy & Practice (2014, Amsterdam)
  • ApacheCon NA (2013, Portland | 2011, Vancouver)
  • Open Source Developer Conference (2013, Auckland, New Zealand)
  • IdentityNext (2012, Netherlands)
  • FOSS Security, Sri Lanka CERT (2011, Colombo)
  • OSCON (2009, San Jose)
  • Apache Roadshow Asia (2009, Colombo)

Conferences (Attendee)

  • Gartner Identity and Access Management Summit (2018, Las Vegas)
  • Internet Identity Workshop (April 2019, Mountain View | Oct 2017, Mountain View | May 2017, Mountain View | April 2016, Mountain View | April 2015, Mountain View )
  • Borderless Cyber US (Oct 2018, World Bank, Washington DC)
  • ID2020 Summit (June 2017, United Nations, New York)
  • CERT Vendor Meeting (Feb 2017, San Francisco | Feb 2016, San Francisco | April 2015, San Francisco)
  • Structure Security Conference (Sept 2016, San Francisco)
  • TiECon (May 2015, Santa Clara)
  • Strata + Hadoop World (Feb 2015, San Jose)
  • Cloud Identity Summit (July 2011, Colorado)

Workshops (Speaker)

Webinars (Speaker)

Meetups (Founder)

Meetups / Community Events (Speaker)

Whitepapers (Author)

Research Papers (Author)

Standards/RFCs (Acknowledged)

Podcasts (Panelist)

Blogs (Author)

Awards (Carries My Name, But it's the Team Behind Me)

  • Outstanding Contribution Award, 2017, WSO2
  • Most Valuable Person (MVP), 2016, WSO2
  • Outstanding Contribution Award, 2015, WSO2
  • Outstanding Contribution Award, 2014, WSO2
  • Outstanding Contribution Award, 2013, WSO2
  • Outstanding Contribution Award, 2012, WSO2
  • Outstanding Contribution Award, 2011, WSO2
  • Customer Delight Award, 2010, WSO2
  • Outstanding Contribution Award, 2009, WSO2
  • Outstanding Contribution Award, 2008, WSO2
  • Best Blogger Award, Nov/2008, WSO2
  • Best Tech Evangelist Award, Sept/2008, WSO2

Non-Techncal Books (Loved Reading)

Travel (Places Visited, Mostly on Business)

  • United States (California, Virginia, Washington, Utah, Nevada, New Jersy, Conneticut, Illinois, Akansas, Texax, Arizona, Maine, New York, Florida, Colorado, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Tenesses, Nebraska, Idaho, Louisiana, Michigen, Missouri, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Maryland)
  • Canada (Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal)
  • Brazil (Rio, Brasilia, Sao Paulo)
  • England (London, Cambridge)
  • Netherlands (Amsterdam)
  • Germany (Munich, Stuttgart)
  • Spain (Barcelona)
  • France (Paris)
  • Turkey (Ankara, Istanbul)
  • New Zealand (Auckland)
  • China (Guangzhou)
  • Thailand (Bangkok)
  • Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)
  • Singapore (Singapore)
  • India (Bangalore)
  • Malidives (Male)
  • UAE (Dubai)
  • Sadui Arabia (Riyadh)
  • Sri Lanka (Almost everywhere)

Running for Fun and for a Good Cause

  • Summer Scamper, Stanford, 10k (June, 2019)
  • Giant Race, San Jose, 5K (June, 2019)
  • The Sugar Rush, San Jose, 5k (May, 2019)
  • Walk, Run, Fun! Sister County, Martial Cottle County Park, San Jose, 5k (April, 2019)

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