Lakitha Wijeratne
Senior System Engineer at ObjectSpectrum
Carrollton, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLakitha Wijeratne is a Senior System Engineer with nine years of experience designing resilient embedded and IoT sensing systems, combining hands-on hardware development with cloud-based analytics and machine learning. He led R&D for over 30 projects in a $1M lab, delivering solar-powered sensing suites that produced 100x more data and improved durability and uptime to 99%, while scaling a regional SharedAirDFW network fivefold. Skilled across end-to-end stacks—Arm-based firmware, LoRaWAN, MQTT/Node-RED pipelines, AWS IoT Core, and data visualization—he has built >50 dashboards and mentored dozens of students to accelerate productivity. His academic background (PhD/MS in Atmospheric Physics) informs practical innovations like low-cost particle counter calibration and radar-based particulate monitoring that dramatically cut costs. Colleagues describe him as solutions-focused and resourceful, with a track record of translating complex environmental science into deployable, cost-effective sensing platforms.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Atmospheric Physics and Dynamics, 4.0/4.0, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Atmospheric Physics and Dynamics, 4.0/4.0 at The University of Texas at DallasBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computational Physics, 3.3/4.0, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computational Physics, 3.3/4.0 at University of Colombo
English, Sinhalese
Github Skills (31)
esp326
arduino6
debugging6
mbed6
platformio5
arm5
embedded5
esp82665
ide5
firmware5
debug5
unit-testing5
verilog4
microcontroller4
iot4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mi3nts/minWeZeroRPiOS
Mar 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:149 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
mi3nts/poLoNodes
Jul 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:225 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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