Akila Welihinda
Agents Infra at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkila Welihinda is an experienced software engineer with 11 years building large-scale compute and infrastructure systems, currently working on Agents Infra at OpenAI after roles on Supercomputing and Post-Training teams. He has a strong background in orchestration, autoscaling, VM lifecycle management and resource pooling from prior work at Databricks and contributed to internal scheduler and container runtime components at Facebook. Based in San Francisco and trained in CS at UCLA, Akila blends hands‑on systems engineering with productionizing high-throughput services and refactoring microservices to handle 10x growth. Notably, his GitHub bio highlights a focus on supercomputing at OpenAI, signaling deep involvement in the infrastructure that powers large models.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Sinhalese, Spanish
Github Skills (36)
query-parser10
sql-parser9
optimizer9
parser9
rdbms8
sql-query7
database7
sql6
postgresql6
mysql6
java4
glibc4
stacked4
phpstorm4
system-design3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
awelm/blog
Jul 2021 - Jun 2024
Contributions:133 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 11 months
awelm/simpledb
Jan 2020 - Sep 2022
A simple database built from scratch that has some the basic RDBMS features (SQL query parser, transactions, query optimizer)
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 2 years 9 months
querysql-parserquery-optimizerquery-parsermysql
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