Afkham Azeez

Title: Software Architect

Country: Sri Lanka

I am a committer & Project Management Committee (PMC) member of the Apache Web Services & Apache Synapse projects & joined WSO2 in December 2005. I work as a software architect at WSO2 and am the Product Manager of WSO2 Web Services Application Server. I'm also the lead of the WSO2 Carbon project, which is the base platform on which all Java products are built

My areas of interest include distributed computing, SOA, Highly Available & Highly Scalable applications & J2EE technologies. I am the author of the clustering implementation for Apache Axis2. My current research area is cloud computing.

I've actively contributed to the following projects at Apache & WSO2

• Apache Axis2
• Apache Axiom
• Apache Synapse
• Apache Rampart
• WSO2 WSAS
• WSO2 ESB
• WSO2 Data Service
• WSO2 Carbon
• WSO2 Registry

I hold a B.Sc. first class honors degree in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, and am currently reading for a Masters Degree in Computer Science specializing in Software Architecture. My masters thesis is "Autoscaling Web services on Amazon EC2".

My blog about Open Source SOA Middleware, Distributed Computing & Automobiles can be found at http://afkham.org. I also contribute to the WSO2 WSAS blog

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