Buddhi Rathnayaka
Graduate Research Fellow
Glassboro, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolBuddhi Rathnayaka is a research-driven Data Science and Machine Learning engineer with 11 years of industry and academic experience, currently pursuing a PhD in Data Science at Rowan University and serving as a Graduate Research Fellow. He holds BSc and MSc (Research) degrees from the University of Moratuwa and has led multidisciplinary teams to build large-scale data fusion and real-time analytics systems using Spark, Hadoop, and modern ML frameworks. His work spans end-to-end solutions—from embedded IoT firmware and audio-based respiratory monitoring (the patented Inhalo project) to computer-vision traffic analysis and production ML pipelines. Buddhi blends hands-on software engineering (Python, C++, Java, Docker, AWS/GCP) with teaching and research, having supported multiple university courses in big data, ML, and databases. Notably, he contributed SQL support to Apache Gearpump during Google Summer of Code and has repeatedly bridged research prototypes into deployable systems. He’s driven by practical applications of ML for societal impact and enjoys tackling problems that require integrating embedded systems, cloud platforms, and advanced analytics.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. (Research) in Computer Science and Engineering Data Science and Machine Learning, M.Sc. (Research) in Computer Science and Engineering Data Science and Machine Learning at University of MoratuwaHigh School Mathematics, High School Mathematics at Mahanama College ColomboDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Data Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Data Science at Rowan University
English, Sinhalese
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Github Skills (9)
java7
apache6
akka6
streaming5
scala5
stream-processing4
streaming-data4
kafka3
big-data2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wso2-incubator/automatic-anomaly-detection
Sep 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:129 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
buddhiayesha2015/buddhiayesha2015.github.io
Oct 2023 - Nov 2023
Github Academic Personal Websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:54 pushes in 1 month
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