Achintha Ihalage
Associate Director, Data & AI
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAchintha Ihalage is an Associate Director in Data & AI with 8+ years of experience turning advanced ML research into production-grade AI and agentic systems across telecommunications, banking and government. He specialises in Agentic AI, LLMs, RAG, GNNs and NLP, and has built distributed training and inference pipelines, observability-first GenAI workflows, and policy-governed agent orchestration on Kubernetes across AWS, GCP and on-prem environments. His work includes shipping in-house pretrained and instruction-finetuned LLMs for autonomous root-cause analysis and novel GNNs that improved wireless KPIs and led to customer-facing products. A PhD-trained researcher who discovered materials using GNNs, he bridges multidisciplinary science and enterprise engineering to deploy reliable, auditable AI in regulated settings. He also founded Yupa, an agentic AI property due-diligence startup, and leads orchestration efforts at Kyndryl, signalling a strong product and founder mindset alongside deep technical leadership.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering at University of MoratuwaAnanda CollegeDiploma of Education, Information Technology/ E Commerce, Diploma of Education, Information Technology/ E Commerce at ESOFT Metro CampusDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Queen Mary University of London
English, Sinhalese
Stackoverflow
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tensorflow
top-5%
python
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Github Skills (44)
pytorch9
python9
machine-learning9
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
nlp9
speech-recognition8
natural-language-processing8
data-science8
bert7
keras7
jax7
prediction7
transformer7
in-place6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ihalage/analogmat
Sep 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:1 release, 72 commits, 71 pushes in 8 months
ihalage/Finder
Dec 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:1 release, 51 commits, 15 pushes in 9 months
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