Summary
Nishanthan Kamaleson is a Senior MLOps Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native ML platforms and productionising models across AWS and Kubernetes. He blends research-oriented thinking from a PhD in Computer Science with hands-on skills in CI/CD, Terraform, Helm, MLflow, Airflow and observability to deliver secure, scalable pipelines. Notable wins include 5x GenAI cold-start improvements via OCI image strategies, reducing workflow maintenance by ~80% through Airflow automation, and hardening containers to eliminate high/critical vulnerabilities. He has a track record of translating ML research into products—such as a scalable OCR/document-extraction app and a call-monitoring system that leverages LLMs for transcript summarisation. Comfortable mentoring teams and producing internal technical playbooks, he excels at making complex ML infrastructure understandable and auditable. Based in Chatham, UK, he combines deep academic rigour with practical, cost-conscious engineering decisions that drive measurable business impact.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCamp
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at University of Birmingham
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Software Engineering at University of Greenwich
Tamil, English