Thusitha Chandrapala
Lead AI Engineer at Ambiata
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolThusitha Chandrapala is a Lead AI Engineer based in Melbourne with 11 years of experience building production ML and data products across banking, retail and insurance. He combines a PhD-trained theoretical grounding with strong software engineering chops—designing end-to-end systems from Dockerized APIs to RAG-based question-answering and model monitoring dashboards. At IAG he drives generative AI initiatives for claims and quoting workflows, having moved prototypes into production and authored reusable Python tooling for NLP and LLM applications. His background spans embedded systems and GPGPU research to enterprise analytics, giving him a rare fluency from low-level optimization to large-scale data systems. Colleagues value his pragmatic leadership in marrying research rigor with business-impacting delivery.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc Engineering, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, First-class honors, Bsc Engineering, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, First-class honors at University of MoratuwaManagement Accounting, CIMA, Management Accounting, CIMA at Wisdom Business AcademyRoyal College ColomboHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
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Github Skills (200)
gbm10
language-model10
dataflow10
bots10
portable10
voice10
nlp10
boosting10
rasa10
bert10
speech-recognition10
python10
generative10
botkit10
dialogue-systems10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
thusithaC/gassom
Feb 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
thusithaC/ecif
Oct 2023 - Nov 2023
Experimentation and Causal Inference Framework
Contributions:3 releases, 16 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 month
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