Summary
Thilina Gunarathne is a Managing Director of Engineering at KPMG US with 12 years of experience building large-scale data, analytics, and AI platforms across cloud and hybrid environments. He led and architected the KPMG Trusted Cloud Platform and the Global AI/NLP platform, managing 50+ engineers and multi-million dollar programs while delivering regulated solutions for healthcare, finance, and sports optimization. A former academic and PhD researcher in scalable parallel and cloud computing, he brings deep technical rigor to production systems—having implemented one of the world’s largest social network analyses and a 1,000s-core optimization backend for a major US sports league. He is an active Apache contributor and release manager with roots in open source middleware, which informs his emphasis on robust, portable architectures and containerization at enterprise scale. Based in Knoxville, TN, he blends research, leadership, and hands-on engineering to drive AI-enabled digital transformation for Fortune-level clients.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
B. Sc. (Eng) Computer Science & Engineering, B. Sc. (Eng) Computer Science & Engineering at University of Moratuwa
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington