Saman Amarasinghe
Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSaman Amarasinghe is a professor at MIT with a deep research portfolio spanning compilers, programming languages, computer architecture, software engineering, security, and even programmable microfluidics and ICT for developing regions. He combines long-standing academic leadership with serial entrepreneurship as co-founder of several startups (Venti Technologies, DataCebo, Exaloop) and strategic advisor roles, translating research into commercial products. His career bridges foundational systems research and practical systems engineering, informed by industry stints at Microsoft and a lengthy VMware affiliation. Based in Waltham, MA, he brings decades of mentorship and technical direction to both startups and established labs, often focusing on making complex compiler and architecture ideas practical. An underappreciated thread of his work is its interdisciplinary reach—from low-level code generation to hardware-aware systems and unconventional domains like microfluidics—highlighting his knack for applying core CS principles to diverse real-world problems.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of MoratuwaBS, BS at Cornell UniversityGCE A/L, GCE A/L at Royal College ColomboMS, MS at Stanford University
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (27)
python8
home-assistant7
iot7
home-automation7
raspberry-pi7
automation6
privacy6
mqtt6
webfonts6
bootstrap6
testing6
flutter5
android5
material-icons5
asyncio5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sethpatum/iBOCA
Nov 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:153 pushes in 1 year 7 months
samanamarasinghe/homeassistant-aprilaire-serial
Jan 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:64 releases, 71 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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.