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Meet the founder who built and sold a $600M enterprise software startup from Sri Lanka
Sanjiva Weerawarana co-founded WSO2 in 2005, recently selling it for more than $600M. He sometimes drives for Uber, too.
The main driving force behind this has been its founding CEO Weerawarana, a computer scientist and key figure in the open source community over the past 25 years, both as a member of the Apache Software Foundation and more recently as the creator of Ballerina, a cloud-native general purpose programming language for integrating distributed systems. With the advent of cloud computing and microservices — software built from smaller, loosely connected components that can be developed and maintained independently and which conveniently rely on APIs — WSO2 has been well-positioned as enterprises transition from legacy monolithic applications. Uber logo on top of car Image Credits: Marek Antoni Iwanczuk/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesWhile running WSO2 is a time-consuming endeavor on its own, Weerawarana keeps busy with other initiatives such as a philanthropic effort called the Avinya Foundation, which he established in 2022 to support economically disadvantaged children via vocational education programs.
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