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
| Jul 2026 | My write-up on the kgateway mentorship project and what the LFX program is actually like from the mentee’s perspective was published on the CNCF blog. |
| Mar 2026 | Passed the Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) exam, demonstrating hands-on expertise in Kubernetes workload security, cluster hardening, supply chain security, and runtime threat detection. |
| Feb 2026 | Selected for LFX Mentorship 2026 Term 1 to work on kgateway, an Envoy-based Kubernetes Gateway API implementation, with a focus on implementing HTTP fault injection through its TrafficPolicy API. |
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