Savindi Wijenayaka
Intermediate Machine Learning Engineer
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolSavindi Wijenayaka is an Intermediate Machine Learning Engineer with eight years of experience building production-ready AI solutions across computer vision, NLP, and cloud-native systems. Based in Auckland, she has moved between applied R&D and engineering roles—designing deep learning services for emotion and speech analysis at Pearson, and developing GPT-based test generation and anomaly detection pipelines at WSO2 using Azure Kubernetes and event-driven architectures. She combines research depth (pursuing a PhD in Bioengineering) with pragmatic deployment skills, automating CI/CD and performance testing to improve reliability and resource efficiency. At Auror she continues to focus on applied ML, bridging model research and scalable microservice integration. Notably, she has hands-on experience diagnosing critical memory leaks and turning research prototypes into resilient services, demonstrating an uncommon mix of investigative debugging and system-level thinking.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Secondary Education Physical Sciences (2014 A/L), Secondary Education Physical Sciences (2014 A/L) at Visakha Vidyalaya ColomboBSc. (Hon.) Software Engineering Computer Software Engineering, BSc. (Hon.) Software Engineering Computer Software Engineering at University of Kelaniya Sri LankaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioengineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioengineering at University of Auckland
English, Sinhala, Tamil
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Github Skills (59)
pytorch9
python9
machine-learning9
natural-language-processing9
segmentation9
deep-learning9
nlp9
speech-recognition8
bert8
tensorflow8
data-science8
transformers7
explore7
jax7
language-model7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
savindi-wijenayaka/resume
Jun 2018 - Jun 2023
Contributions:72 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
savindi-wijenayaka/threadheros
Nov 2019 - May 2022
University project to Analyze Thread Dumps
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes in 2 years 7 months
dumpsthreadanalyze
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