Sachith Dunatunga
Staff Embedded Software Engineer at Also.
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSachith Dunatunga is a Staff Embedded Software Engineer with 12 years of experience blending deep mechanical engineering research (PhD from MIT) with hands-on firmware development for sensors, actuators, and edge systems. He is fluent in C/C++ and C-adjacent compute languages like OpenCL and CUDA, while prototyping quickly in Python and Matlab, and has applied reverse-engineering skills to obscure binary targets. His recent roles span embedded and firmware leadership at Rivian and Lyft and CTO-level product and technical ownership for an interactive learning startup, demonstrating both individual technical depth and cross-functional leadership. Based in Palo Alto, he enjoys pushing the boundary between physical simulation and embedded systems—particularly meshless continuum methods—and brings a rapid-learning mindset that lets him move from research prototypes to production firmware efficiently.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCalifornia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (1)
python3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
neocpp89/lammps
Oct 2023 - Jan 2025
Public development project of the LAMMPS MD software package
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 44 pushes in 1 year 3 months
neocpp89/mpm-opencl
Sep 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:94 commits, 18 pushes, 3 branches in 8 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.