CD Athuraliya
Co-founder, Principal AI Engineer at LIRNEasia
Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolCD Athuraliya is a co-founder and Principal AI Engineer with 11 years of experience building ML and deep learning solutions across industry and research. He leads AI strategy and architecture at ConscientAI while advising policy-focused data science projects at LIRNEasia, translating big data into actionable insights for urbanization, transport and health. His background spans product development (WSO2), enterprise AI features (TaxGlobal), and teaching machine learning and deep learning to university and industry audiences. Comfortable moving models from research into production, he combines hands-on engineering with curriculum-building and capacity development in Sri Lanka’s ML community. Notably, his early work produced a real-time NLP system for crowdsourced traffic alerts, underscoring a practical bent toward real-world data problems. He holds dual strong honours degrees in Computer Science and IT and balances entrepreneurship with active research and training roles.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology (External), Information Technology, Second Class Honours (Upper Division), Bachelor of Information Technology (External), Information Technology, Second Class Honours (Upper Division) at University of ColomboCombined Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Combined Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry at Royal College ColomboBachelor of Science (Special) degree in Computer Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Second Class Honours (Upper Division), Bachelor of Science (Special) degree in Computer Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Second Class Honours (Upper Division) at University of Sri Jayewardenepura
Sinhalese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (55)
natural-language-understanding10
google10
nlp10
natural-language-processing9
wso29
tensorflow9
logitech9
device-manager8
bert8
segmentation8
machine-learning8
siddhi7
stream7
mime-types6
cloud-native6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cdathuraliya/carbon-ml
May 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:238 pushes in 10 months
cdathuraliya/product-ml
Jan 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:284 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
machine-learning
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