Summary
Maleakhi Wijaya is a co-founder and Applied ML Lead with nine years’ experience building production machine learning systems and end-to-end engineering at Tenyks, a YC-backed startup recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30 and Cambridge University. Based in Cambridge, he bridges applied research and product delivery—leading pilot projects, defining engineering metrics and processes, and prototyping explainable AI and deep learning features while contributing to backend systems. His academic background (MPhil Advanced Computer Science, MSc AI, and a CS & Math bachelor’s) underpins work on reinforcement learning and network diffusion during research stints at ANU and CSIRO Data61. Not obvious from titles: he has steered Tenyks through major growth milestones including a $3.4M seed round and accelerator programs (YC, Intel Ignite), showing a rare blend of technical hands-on execution and startup-scale leadership.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Philosophy - MPhil Advanced Computer Science, Master of Philosophy - MPhil Advanced Computer Science at University of Cambridge
MSc Artificial Intelligence, MSc Artificial Intelligence at Imperial College London
The University of Melbourne
English, Indonesian