Deshan Kalupahana
Casual Academic at UNSW Computer Science and Engineering
Sydney, New South Wales, Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolDeshan Kalupahana is a PhD researcher and casual academic based in Sydney with a decade of experience at the intersection of AI, medical imaging, and software engineering. He has a strong track record in deep learning for automated disease detection and applied computer vision across healthcare, agriculture, and industry, built on prior roles as a lecturer and instructor shaping the next generation of engineers. Deshan pairs academic rigor (MPhil, PhD in progress at UNSW) with practical engineering experience from WSO2 and freelance development, including meaningful back-end contributions to the widely used WSO2 carbon-identity-framework. Comfortable moving between research and production, he focuses on reducing subjectivity and labor in image interpretation through scalable algorithms and system integrations. Colleagues value his blend of teaching, research, and hands-on coding—an educator-researcher who still commits code to open-source and commercial projects.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Philosophy - MPhil, ENGINEERING, Master of Philosophy - MPhil, ENGINEERING at University of Sri JayewardenepuraBachelor of Science (BScEng) (Hons), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BScEng) (Hons), Computer Engineering at University of PeradeniyaUNSW Sydney
English, Sinhalese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
javas10
authentication10
identity-management10
java10
auth10
apidoc9
api9
json9
str-replace6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wso2/carbon-identity-framework
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 29 days
Contributions summary:Deshan's contributions primarily involve modifications to the WSO2 carbon-identity-framework, touching upon various aspects of the system. The commits demonstrate changes to the identity event components, including event properties, suggesting an understanding of the event handling mechanism. Furthermore, the user deprecated the AuthenticationDataPublisher and modified deprecation messages which implies involvement in the authentication framework. The user also contributed to modifying the JSON response writer for the entitlement endpoint.
identity
DeshanKTD/wso2-engineering-efficiency
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:71 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
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