Saliya Ekanayake
Senior Principal Engineer at d-Matrix
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaliya Ekanayake is a Senior Principal Engineer based in Redmond with 11+ years building scalable parallel machine learning solutions for Big Data, blending academic rigor from a Ph.D. in Computer Science with production experience at Microsoft and Berkeley Lab. He specializes in MPI, PyTorch, and Spark and is a frequent C++ developer with strong Java, Python, and C# skills, enabling him to bridge research prototypes and high-performance production systems. His career tracks roles from academia to industry leadership, recently advancing distributed ML and data infrastructure at d-Matrix. Colleagues value his ability to translate parallel algorithms into resilient, high-throughput implementations and to optimize across algorithmic and systems boundaries.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Engineering at University of MoratuwaPh.D Computer Science, Ph.D Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington
English, Sinhalese
Stackoverflow
387reputation
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Github Skills (121)
python10
mlops10
deep-learning10
gpu10
genome-assembly10
gpu-acceleration10
acceleration10
numpy10
llmops10
xpu10
neural-network10
transformer10
gpt10
tensor10
genome10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
esaliya/SchemeStack
Feb 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:2 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 1 month
esaliya/KMeans
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:177 pushes, 3 branches, 7 tags in 1 month
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