Vipula Dissanayake
Senior Software Engineer, AI at Orion Health
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolVipula Dissanayake is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI with 11 years of experience building production-grade ML and backend systems from research to cloud deployment. Holding a PhD in multimodal emotion recognition, he combines deep academic rigor with practical skills in semantic search, large language model tooling, and scalable AWS infrastructure. At Orion Health he modernized core search with a Vespa-based hybrid semantic/lexical system and delivered a Generative AI healthcare chat PoC that attracted customer interest. He is pragmatic about reliability and observability—skills honed by deploying research systems in the wild—and enjoys mentoring teams to productionize ML work. Based in Auckland, he’s currently learning Rust and seeks small, collaborative teams where thoughtful engineering drives measurable impact.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Second class: upper division, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Second class: upper division at University of MoratuwaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at The University of AucklandGeneral Certificate of Education (Advanced Level), Science, General Certificate of Education (Advanced Level), Science at Maliyadeva College
English, Sinhalese
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Github Skills (37)
face9
nlp8
aws8
development-kit7
typescript7
cloud-infrastructure7
deep-learning7
infrastructure6
natural-language-processing6
terraform6
pytorch6
transformers6
aws-cloud6
infrastructure-as-code5
transformer5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
vipulaSD/wifi
Sep 2020 - Feb 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 36 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 5 months
vipulaSD/Troi
Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:30 commits in 5 months
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