Akshika Wijesundara
Senior AI Consultant at Tilli
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAkshika Wijesundara is a Senior AI Consultant and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building production-grade generative systems, intelligent agents, and AI-driven workflows for finance, education, healthcare, and international organizations. She co-founded SnapDrum and Krybe, serves as CTO at Tilli, and has led AI engineering and migration efforts at institutions including MainStreet Partners and the United Nations. Her work blends hands-on ML engineering, cloud-native architecture, and product-facing automation to turn research-grade models into measurable, scalable impact. An experienced instructor and mentor, she has taught thousands of students through The AI Internship and Maven while running academic research from a PhD and postdoc in machine learning. She routinely translates complex governance and multi-stakeholder requirements into practical AI systems—most recently architecting an AI-powered evaluation and oversight platform at a UN agency. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she pairs startup grit with institutional delivery, and often bridges research, pedagogy, and production in the same project.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at The Open UniversitySummer School Machine Learning, Summer School Machine Learning at University of OxfordDelta Program, Delta Program at The ResidencyStartup School, Startup School at Y CombinatorBachelor of Science Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Science and Engineering at University of MoratuwaPostdoc Machine Learning, Postdoc Machine Learning at King's College LondonHigh School Physical Sciences, High School Physical Sciences at Royal College Colombo
English, Sinhala
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Github Skills (74)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
akshika47/OpenCV-Android-Object-Detection
Dec 2016 - Jul 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 3 years 7 months
object-detectionandroid
SustainableEducationFoundation/Documentation
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
Hold SEF Documents
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 3 months
architecture
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