Summary
Sampath Priyankara is a product-focused research leader and engineer with over a decade of experience building distributed systems, compute virtualization, and private cloud/AI platforms. With a Ph.D. in Information Science from Osaka University and early work on wireless sensor networks and ns-2, he brings deep academic rigor to production-grade cloud engineering. At NTT he has progressed from research engineer to senior manager and now Product Owner for Private Cloud & Private AI, while leading OpenStack Masakari projects and contributing to cinder, glance, and nova. He combines hands-on systems design with open-source stewardship, specializing in high-availability and compute recovery tooling that underpins enterprise private clouds. Based in Novi, Michigan, he is known for translating complex research into practical, operational platforms for large organizations.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Information Technology wireless networking, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Information Technology wireless networking at The University of Osaka
diploma of information technology Information Technology, diploma of information technology Information Technology at Yuge National College of Maritime Technology
Sinhalese, English, Japanese