Hiranya Jayakody
Co-founder And CTO at HEO
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolHiranya Jayakody is a co-founder and CTO with a decade of experience bridging advanced robotics research and space-focused commercial imaging. Trained as an electronics engineer and holding a PhD in Mechatronics from UNSW, he developed robust control algorithms for UAVs and space robots and published at IEEE CDC. After postdoctoral work translating image processing and ML into agricultural sensing, he pivoted to found HEO Robotics to deliver on-demand space-based visual inspection for commercial, government, and defence customers. He combines hands-on expertise in C/C++, embedded systems, real-time control and computer vision with product leadership, taking solutions from academic proof-of-concept to operational satellite deployments. Based in Sydney, he’s comfortable toggling between cutting-edge research and pragmatic engineering to solve hard sensing problems in orbit.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of PeradeniyaG.C.E. Advanced Level Physical Sciences, G.C.E. Advanced Level Physical Sciences at Dharmaraja College, KandyUNSW Sydney
English, Sinhala
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
keras10
segmentation10
instance-segmentation9
mask9
mask-rcnn9
object-detection9
faster-rcnn8
tensorflow8
deep-learning7
gps6
google-image-search6
data-conversion6
matlab6
bash6
python6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Smart-Robotic-Viticulture/Stomata_Aperture_Measurement_2017
Mar 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 release, 13 commits, 3 pushes in 10 months
hiranyajaya/VineyardProject
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
unswvineyardimage-processingcpp
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