Summary
Jcs Kadupitiya is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with nine years of experience building high-performance, research-driven distributed systems and scientific simulation tools. He holds dual MS degrees and is a PhD candidate in Intelligent Systems Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington, with a 4.0 GPA and a strong publication record (16 papers) tying academic rigor to production software. His work spans planet-scale AI scheduling—where he redesigned queue processing and regionalized schedulers to dramatically improve latency, reliability, and large-job survival—and scientific HPC apps that achieved up to 600× parallel speedups and ML surrogates yielding up to 10^6× acceleration. He has deployed web-based simulation applications used by thousands worldwide and has delivered practical cost- and failure-reduction strategies for cloud preemptible VMs. Known for turning research into production, he blends systems-level engineering, observability-driven reliability, and ML-accelerated simulation in cloud and HPC environments. An unexpected thread through his career is consistent teaching and tooling impact—from transcript systems still in use to widely adopted NanoHUB apps—showing a knack for durable engineering that benefits both users and researchers.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science and Engineering, MSc, Computer Science and Engineering at University of Moratuwa
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Intelligent Systems Engineering, CGPA: 4.00/4.00, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Intelligent Systems Engineering, CGPA: 4.00/4.00 at Indiana University Bloomington
B.Sc. (Engineering), Electrical and Information Engineering, 3.75(4.00) OGPA with 1st class honours, B.Sc. (Engineering), Electrical and Information Engineering, 3.75(4.00) OGPA with 1st class honours at Faculty of Engineering, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka
Combined maths, A, Combined maths, A at Richmond College, Galle
English, Sinhalese