Get the User Making the Request

Use com.atlassian.sal.api.user.UserManager to get the current user from the http request.

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.sal.api.user.UserManager
import com.onresolve.scriptrunner.runner.rest.common.CustomEndpointDelegate
import groovy.json.JsonBuilder
import groovy.transform.BaseScript

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response

@BaseScript CustomEndpointDelegate delegate

getCurrentUser { queryParams, body, HttpServletRequest request ->
    def userManager = ComponentAccessor.getOSGiComponentInstanceOfType(UserManager)
    def userProfile = userManager.getRemoteUser(request)
    return Response.ok(new JsonBuilder([currentUser: userProfile?.username]).toString()).build()
}