I've seen the Past of the ESBs, contributed to develop the Present, and now will be a part of the ESB of the Future!
I'm thrilled to announce today that I have joined AdroitLogic as its Director of Engineering! AdroitLogic is the company building the free and open source UltraESB, founded by the first architect and product manager of the WSO2 ESB, Asankha Perera. I've known Asankha from 2006, and worked with him from the day I joined WSO2 until the day he left. After his departure I took over as the architect and product manager of the WSO2 ESB, while he went onto start AdroitLogic in January 2010. Together we've written most of the Apache Synapse ESB in the past, and been the release leads of every release until now. Its great to be working with him back again, as I know him well as both a very technical person, and also as a good friend!
Having worked with multiple ESB's, I find the UltraESB to be comparatively easier to understand, configure and manage, with a much better and innovative design. I've just had to spend a couple of hours to learn the basics and get started using it, and looking at the code I find it very easy to follow the logic, coded with great unit test coverage and code quality as shown by Sonar at http://dev.adroitlogic.com:9090
Today I can look back and connect all the dots to see where life brought me. Its now a new chapter, as I close the one where I was a consultant. Although I enjoyed working independently, something within me wanted to get back into prime time product development. Like I said before, I have to love what I do, and designing and writing great software is what keeps me ticking! Being a part of the UltraESB will be a challenging yet fulfilling experience for me, and I look forward to making it an even better product than it is now!
