Lahiru De Silva
I’m a software engineer focused on building reliable, scalable systems and infrastructure for modern cloud-native applications. My work spans Kubernetes, Envoy, distributed systems, and cloud-native technologies, and I’m also an active open source contributor, working on projects that push the boundaries of cloud-native infrastructure and platform engineering.
I’ve spent my career designing and building systems for large-scale production environments, from distributed control planes and Kubernetes-based infrastructure to high-performance API gateways and networking with Envoy. I enjoy understanding how complex systems behave under real-world workloads and solving the engineering challenges that come with building reliable, scalable infrastructure.
I currently work at WSO2, where I’m building the future of platform engineering with OpenChoreo, an open-source internal developer platform for Kubernetes and a CNCF Sandbox project.
News
| Oct 2026 | Co-authored Why Kubernetes alone isn’t an internal developer platform with Eric Schabell for the SUSE blog, on building an internal developer platform with SUSE Rancher Prime and OpenChoreo. |
| Oct 2026 | Spoke at Conf42 DevSecOps 2026 on Cell-based isolation for multi-tenant platforms on Kubernetes, a model for reasoning about tenant blast radius on Kubernetes, with Cells and directional gateways. |
| Jul 2026 | My blog post on the kgateway mentorship project and what the LFX program is actually like from the mentee’s perspective was published on the CNCF blog. |
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