Tharindu Ranathunga
Senior Researcher at Nimbus Research Centre
Cork, Ireland
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Top SchoolTharindu Ranathunga is a Senior Researcher and research engineer with 11 years’ experience, recently completing a PhD in Electronic Engineering and now leading decentralized ML and trustworthy IoT initiatives at Nimbus Research Centre in Cork. He architects and deploys privacy-preserving, self-sovereign Data Space solutions across the edge-cloud continuum, collaborating with industry partners like IBM, DELL and Gilead and aligning work to European standards (IDSA, Gaia-X) to reach TRL7. His expertise spans distributed ledgers, decentralized ML, IoT trust, and practical software engineering—turning feasibility studies and prototypes into production-grade services. Beyond academia, he has a strong open source and community record—mentoring GSoC students and managing projects at SCoRe Lab—bringing both engineering rigor and community-driven momentum to research programs. Notably, he combines hands-on implementation of blockchain-enabled supply chain and energy tools with model-sharing architectures that prioritise privacy and organizational sovereignty.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Level Information Technology, Advanced Level Information Technology at Anuradhapura Central CollegeBachelor's of Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor's of Computer Science Computer Science at University of ColomboDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Munster Technological University
Sinhala, English
Github Skills (84)
engage10
intergration10
signing10
portal10
trains10
monitoring9
download-file9
data-visualization9
dashboard9
elasticsearch9
bandwidth9
mysql9
caliper9
forum9
nodejs9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tharindupr/BaiCoin
May 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:5 reviews, 54 commits, 4 PRs in 11 days
tharindupr/Algorithms
Oct 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 8 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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