Kekayan Nanthakumar
Lead Consultant - R&D at Insighture
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolKekayan Nanthakumar is a Lead Consultant specializing in R&D and machine learning with eight years of hands-on software engineering experience, currently pursuing a PhD in Bioengineering at the University of Auckland. He has a strong track record of architecting and deploying serverless AWS products, fine-tuning transformer models with PEFT, and leading cross-functional ML teams to deliver production-ready solutions. His background blends applied research and product engineering—building forecasting services, layout-detection models with Detectron2, and semantic search proofs-of-concept—bridging academic rigor with pragmatic deployments. Known for shipping end-to-end systems, he also invents practical tools (like a webhook-receiving Python library) that streamline developer workflows. Based in Auckland, he holds a First Class BSc (Hons) in Software Engineering and brings a rare combination of consulting agility and deep research orientation to R&D problems.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctoral Candidate, Bioengineering, Doctoral Candidate, Bioengineering at The University of AucklandBachelor’s Degree, BSc. (Hons) Software Engineering, First Class, Bachelor’s Degree, BSc. (Hons) Software Engineering, First Class at University of Kelaniya Sri LankaHigh School, Physical Sciences (2014 A/L), High School, Physical Sciences (2014 A/L) at Hindu College, Chavakachcheri
Tamil, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (81)
squad9
transfer-learning9
nlp9
datasets9
summarization9
korean-nlp9
haystack8
python8
nuxt8
machine-learning8
text-annotation8
pytorch8
question-answering8
natural-language-processing8
vue8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kekayan/kekayan.github.io
May 2018 - Jun 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 29 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 1 month
reactnextjs
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