Thejan Wijesinghe
Founder And CEO at PrimeSens
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolThejan Wijesinghe is a founder and CEO with a decade of experience building AI-driven products and scaling engineering teams from startup to growth stage. Based in Los Angeles, he combines hands-on ML and MLOps expertise—deploying deep learning models with Docker, Kubernetes, TensorFlow Serving and ONNX—with strategic product leadership through PrimeSens. As an Apache Tika and DRAT committer and PMC member, he implemented image-captioning REST APIs and production Java clients for a widely used open-source toolkit that has powered major investigations and enterprise search systems. He has led AI teams at Arimac and contributed to Google Summer of Code, reflecting a blend of research curiosity and delivery focus. Colleagues describe him as a collaborative leader who thrives in fast-paced environments and surfaces novel technical strategies that drive recurring revenue.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Honours, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Honours, Computer Science and Engineering at University of MoratuwaPhysical Sciences - Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Physical Sciences - Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry at Royal College Colombo
Sinhalese, English
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Github Skills (16)
api-rest10
rest-api10
tensorflow10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
java9
flask9
flask-ask9
api9
apim9
javas9
docker8
dockers8
content-type8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
apache/tika
May 2017 - Aug 2018
The Apache Tika toolkit detects and extracts metadata and text from over a thousand different file types (such as PPT, XLS, and PDF).
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer & MLOps Engineer
Full-stack Developer & MLOps EngineerContributions:71 commits, 11 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Thejan primarily focused on implementing a REST API for image captioning within the Apache Tika project. Their work involved creating the API endpoints, integrating image processing, and setting up the infrastructure for the captioning service using a Python-based framework. They modified configuration files, adjusted API routes, and refined the deployment process by integrating the deep learning model into the REST service. They implemented and enhanced the initial version of a Java client for interacting with the captioning API.
apache-tikaextractionxlspdfppt
ThejanW/Docker-Service-Manager
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:78 commits, 73 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
containersmonitorweb-applicationscontainerizeddocker
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