Career Profile
Nuwan is a Lecturer at IIT, Sri Lanka. His primary areas of interest include the Internet of Things (IoT), Connected Devices, Middleware, and Distributed Systems.
Nuwan spent his undergraduate years at the Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT), Colombo, affiliated with the University of Westminster, UK. He graduated in the class of 2019 with a First Class Honors in Computer Science. After that, he followed a Research-based Masters at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, where he undertook a project on fault-tolerant routing protocols for ad-hoc Wireless Sensor Networks.
Nuwan is an Apache Committer, advocate, and contributor to multiple FOSS projects.
Education
Research-based Masters related to a project on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). Proposed fault tolerant routing protocol for adhoc WSN. Undertook Fault Tolerance Computing module for credit fulfillment.
Specialized in the multi-media pathway with a final year research project-based on middleware and Internet of Things.
Experiences
Worked in full-time basis supporting in the conducting of 2nd-year undergrad modules:
- Object Oriented Programming
- Software Development Group Project
- Professional Development
Working with 3rd-year placement co-ordination team. Designed and developed course content for Edge Artificial Intelligence modules affliated with Data Science degree by Robert Gordon University, Scotland.
Continuing work on developing core features for Apache Synapse project.
Worked part-time researching and developing a network level routing protocol that facilitates M2M communication in Wireless Sensor Networks. Partially funded by grant from National Research Council, Sri Lanka.
Developed product marketing material for the Entgra IoT Server and performed evangelism via Medium detailing product applications.
Worked on the WSO2 IoT Server product implementing future release features. Participated on around 10 projects, including ones both assigned to me as well as ones initiated by me.
Projects
Projects involved in both FOSS, research and personal contexts.
OSS Contributions
The following are a list of FOSS projects I've contributed to over the years.
Publications
List of publications where I’ve been both first author and co-author.