PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Srinath Perera

Srinath Perera is a software architect and researcher whose career connects distributed systems with AI agents. He earned an engineering degree with honours at the University of Moratuwa, completed a PhD at Indiana University in 2009, and joined WSO2. He co-architected Apache Axis2, Apache Airavata and Siddhi; he also coauthored the 2013 Hadoop MapReduce Cookbook and published Software Architecture and Decision-Making in 2023. In 2025, he coauthored ScheduleMe, a multi-agent calendar assistant, and in 2026 he coauthored Robust Agent Compensation, a recovery design for AI agents. As of October 2026, he is vice president and head of research at WSO2.

Now at
WSO2
Works
93
Citations
1,020
h-index
15
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. By 2009

    Degrees at Moratuwa and Indiana

    He earns a BSc in engineering with honours at the University of Moratuwa and an MS and PhD at Indiana University. He completes his PhD in 2009.

  2. 2009

    Joining WSO2

    He joins WSO2 in 2009 after his PhD. WSO2 products are used by Fortune 500 firms such as airlines, banks and governments.

  3. 2013

    The Hadoop MapReduce Cookbook

    He coauthors Hadoop MapReduce Cookbook with Thilina Gunarathne in 2013. The book guides readers through processing large and complex data sets with Hadoop MapReduce.

  4. By 2021

    Apache Axis2, Airavata and Siddhi

    He is a co-founder of Apache Axis2 and a member of the Apache Software Foundation. By 2021, he has co-architected a dozen distributed systems, including Apache Airavata and the Siddhi complex event processing engine.

  5. December 2023

    Software Architecture and Decision-Making

    Addison-Wesley Professional publishes his book Software Architecture and Decision-Making in December 2023. It gives technical leaders guidance on combining technology, leadership and product management while making decisions under uncertainty.

  6. 2025

    The ScheduleMe calendar assistant

    In 2025, he coauthors ScheduleMe with researchers at the University of Moratuwa; the PACLIC paper describes a multi-agent assistant for managing Google Calendar events through natural language. A central supervisory agent coordinates specialized task agents.

  7. May 2026

    Robust Agent Compensation

    In May 2026, the ACM Conference on AI and Agentic Systems in San Jose features Robust Agent Compensation (RAC), his paper with Kaviru Hapuarachchi, Frank Leymann and Rania Khalaf. RAC adds log-based rollback and recovery to existing agent frameworks; on complex problems, it improves latency and token economy by 1.5 to 8 times or more over LLM-based recovery.

  8. As of October 2026

    Research leadership at WSO2

    WSO2 promotes him from vice president of research to senior vice president and chief architect in June 2021. In May 2025, he speaks as WSO2's SVP and chief architect about expanding its customer support team in India. As of October 2026, he is vice president and head of research at WSO2.

Career

  1. Since 2009WSO2Senior vice president and chief architect
  2. 2006–2009Indiana University Bloomington

Education

  1. 2009Indiana UniversityPhD
  2. University of MoratuwaBSc in engineering with honours

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

  1. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Indiana University. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  2. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Indiana University. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  3. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Indiana University. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  4. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Indiana University. We estimate that Google holds the highest combined h-index at 8,016, while universities account for 73% of the deduplicated total across AI organizations.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. DR. SRINATH PERERA | University of Moratuwa uom.lk. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Three Executive Promotions Further Position WSO2 for Next Stage of Growth finance.yahoo.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Srinath Perera | InformIT informit.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. Books - HADOOP2 - Apache Software Foundation cwiki.apache.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. Software Architecture and Decision-Making: Leveraging Leadership, Technology, and Product Management to Build Great Products | InformIT informit.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. [2509.25693] ScheduleMe: Multi-Agent Calendar Assistant arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. [2605.03409] Robust Agent Compensation (RAC): Teaching AI Agents to Compensate arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. Robust Agent Compensation (RAC): Teaching AI Agents to Compensate — CAIS 2026 — ACM CAIS 2026 caisconf.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  9. For WSO2, India remains a key market: Chief Architect - TechHerald techherald.in. Checked 21 October 2026.
  10. Speakers – ICIIT Conclave 2026 iciit.iit.ac.lk. Checked 21 October 2026.