Bhanuka Gamage
Senior Data Engineer
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolBhanuka Gamage is a Senior Data Engineer based in Melbourne with eight years of experience building real-time ML and data platforms that power personalised, user-facing features. He blends research rigour from PhD work with hands-on engineering—designing feature stores, real-time pipelines, and BI systems on GCP (BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Vertex AI) and previously optimising AWS costs and Kafka streams. At Human Health he leads cross-functional delivery and translates product work into auditable R&D narratives, while earlier roles span computer vision, NLP, iOS development in Swift, and embedded firmware improvements. Known for shipping end-to-end solutions—from firmware and mobile apps to production ML pipelines—he brings a rare combination of product-facing delivery, cost-conscious infrastructure design, and academic depth.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Inclusive Technologies Lab Human-Centred Computing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Inclusive Technologies Lab Human-Centred Computing at Monash UniversityDiploma in Engineering (IT) - Monash College Computer Science, Diploma in Engineering (IT) - Monash College Computer Science at UCL, Sri LankaPrimary School - Middle School, Primary School - Middle School at Vidura College ColomboAdvanced Web Development in PHP Computer Science, Advanced Web Development in PHP Computer Science at ESOFT Metro CampusOrdinary Level -Advance Level, Ordinary Level -Advance Level at St.Joseph's College, Colombo 10Specialization Deep Learning Computer Science, Specialization Deep Learning Computer Science at deeplearning.aiBachelor of Computer Science (Honours) Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours) Computer Science at Monash University MalaysiaFoundation Coure in Human Resource Management Business Administration and Management General, Foundation Coure in Human Resource Management Business Administration and Management General at National Institute of Business Management (NIBM - Sri Lanka)Machine Learning with TensorFlow on Google Cloud Platform Cousera Computer Science, Machine Learning with TensorFlow on Google Cloud Platform Cousera Computer Science at Google CloudMachine Learning Cousera Computer Science, Machine Learning Cousera Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Sinhala
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Github Skills (23)
python9
counter8
wakatime8
mobilenet7
probot7
object-detection6
macos6
dropbox6
tqdm6
pytorch6
github-issues5
yolov54
tensorflow4
github3
docxtemplater1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bhanukaManesha/ringgit-detection
Dec 2019 - Apr 2020
Contains the YOLOv1 implementation on Tensorflow 2.0. The model is trained to detect money in a video.
Contributions:177 commits, 4 PRs, 58 pushes in 3 months
yolov1tensorflow-2-0object-detectionyolov5detect
bhanukaManesha/bhanukaManesha
Jul 2020 - Jul 2024
Contributions:527 pushes in 4 years 1 month
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