Nrupatunga Tunga
Senior Staff Engineer at LightMetrics
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolNrupatunga Tunga is a Senior Staff Engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in deep learning for computer vision, particularly object detection, tracking, recognition and metric learning, with a strong focus on designing compact, mobile-optimized models. He has led and deployed vision solutions across consumer mobile products and edtech platforms—shipping image enhancement, burst-photo ranking and on-device DL models at Samsung and BYJU'S before his current role at LightMetrics. His background blends hands-on C/C++ multi-threaded optimization and signal-processing expertise from an IISc master's with research-driven model design, enabling both high accuracy and efficient runtime. Comfort with the full pipeline—from data collection and labeling to model porting on Android—means he routinely translates research prototypes into production-ready, resource-constrained systems. An interesting thread through his career is repeating impact at the device level: improving photographic UX and porting ML to phones rather than only scaling cloud models.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Signal Processing, Master’s Degree, Signal Processing at Indian Institute of ScienceBachelor’s Degree, Electronics and communications Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics and communications Engineering at Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering
Kannada, English, Telugu
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Github Skills (153)
python10
image-processing10
annotations10
vehicle-detection10
rectangle10
infrastructure10
deep-learning10
instance-segmentation10
tflite10
object-tracking10
yolov510
robotics10
caffe10
polygon10
onnx10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nrupatunga/Color-Pencil-Sketch
Nov 2015 - Aug 2017
Applying Pencil Sketch Effect on Images
Contributions:3 releases, 19 commits, 18 pushes in 1 year 8 months
image-processingpencilsketch
nrupatunga/PY-GOTURN
Jun 2017 - Sep 2020
This is the python implementation of single object tracking from GOTURN paper
Contributions:104 commits, 1 PR, 34 pushes in 3 years 4 months
pythonvehicle-detectiondeep-learningpython-implementationobject-detection
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