Chamath Palihawadana
Founding Engineer at The Search Bar
Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChamath Palihawadana is a founding engineer and PhD-trained AI researcher specializing in federated learning, with 10 years of experience building scalable, product-focused systems across startups and academia. He co-founded multiple ventures (The Search Bar, Attendr, SurfEdge) and has shipped high-traffic, multi-tenant platforms and mobile apps serving tens of thousands of users while integrating complex payment and streaming ecosystems. At Vera (formerly Privasee) he built customer-facing AI workflows and billing/Slack integrations that turned regulatory and RFP automation into production-ready features. Chamath blends deep research — authoring explainable-AI tooling and a microservices CBR framework during his PhD and university work — with pragmatic engineering: designing cloud-native architectures, React Native apps, and serverless services. Based in Dundee, he balances entrepreneurial grit with reproducible research, often turning academic prototypes into revenue-generating products.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence at Robert Gordon UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE (Hons) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE (Hons) Software Engineering at University of WestminsterMathematics, Mathematics at Royal College ColomboPCJT(OCJPJSAD) Engineering, PCJT(OCJPJSAD) Engineering at Java Institute for Advanced Technology
Sinhala, English
Github Skills (200)
visual-editor10
react-native-bridge10
serverless10
zoom-sdk10
fetch10
native-library10
semi-supervised-learning10
transfer-learning10
neural-architecture-search10
ibeacon10
react-native-library10
serverless-architectures10
aws-sam10
beacon10
azure-functions10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
chamathpali/FedSim
Mar 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:16 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
SurfEdge/video-listing-platform
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
List multiple YouTube videos in page based layout
Contributions:38 commits, 43 PRs, 28 pushes in 20 days
videosjavascriptlayoutyoutube-videosyoutube
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