Chanaka Fernando has been working in the enterprise software domain for more than a decade designing, implementing, and supporting large-scale applications and systems across different industries including healthcare, financial services, education, and telecommunications to name a few. He is also the author of the book Designing Microservices Platforms with NATS, published in 2021. He has contributed to several open-source projects as a project lead, developer, and architect while working at WSO2, which is an open-source software company. Chanaka holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in engineering, where he specialized in electronics and telecommunication engineering.
Chanaka started a GitHub project to share his experiences, and that repository has gained a lot of traction within the open-source community. That success has motivated him to write a book on the topic, going into greater detail with practical examples.