Gihan Gamage
AI Automation Engineer
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolGihan Gamage is an AI Automation Engineer with nine years of professional experience and over four years focused on data and AI research, currently building LLM-driven automation at HESTA to improve customer outcomes. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from La Trobe University where his thesis explored neuro-symbolic architectures for natural language comprehension, and he has bridged research and practice by designing enterprise NLP and ML solutions across academia and industry. His background includes developing RAG-enabled chatbots, LLM fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and agentic automation using both open-source (BERT, Llama, Mistral) and commercial models (OpenAI, Azure, Claude). He has also taught and developed industry-facing AI curricula for OptusU and La Trobe’s Master of Business Analytics, demonstrating an ability to translate complex concepts into practical training. Less obvious is his experience applying emotion-detection and transcription pipelines at scale (60,000+ calls) for healthcare insights, showing a knack for operationalising sensitive, data-heavy AI systems. Based in Melbourne, he combines rigorous research credentials with hands-on engineering to deliver production-ready AI solutions.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer science and Engineering(Bsc)(Hons), Computer Science, First Class(Honours) - 4th Highest GPA in the Department, Computer science and Engineering(Bsc)(Hons), Computer Science, First Class(Honours) - 4th Highest GPA in the Department at University of MoratuwaCombined Mathematics, Science, Combined Mathematics, Science at Bandaranayake College - GampahaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at La Trobe University
English, Sinhala
Stackoverflow
3,204reputation
2.0mreached
49answers
5questions
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nginx
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Github Skills (45)
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python9
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crawler8
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autogen8
chatgpt8
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
GihanMora/gihanmora.github.io
Nov 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:72 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
GihanMora/Armitage_project
Feb 2020 - Aug 2021
Searching a set of keywords in google and crawl results to n depth.
Contributions:121 commits, 5 PRs, 115 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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