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Gayan K.

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Data AI ML Engineer / Consultant

$100 USD / Hour

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Australia (9:56 AM)

Joined on May 13, 2008

$100 USD / Hour

AI, ML Engineer (PhD UQ, MSc QMUL). 15+ years of software engineering experience (BSc), including the London Stock Exchange and Central Bank (finance, regulatory, AML). Excellent communicator, chartered management accountant (ACMA/CGMA UK), engineer and a travel addict.

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Experience

Founder CTO

Jan, 2023 - Present

3 years, 5 months

Mailot

Jan, 2023 - Present

3 years, 5 months

▪ Combine NLP and human inputs for augmented responses with fine-tuned prompts. ▪ Design Large language model-based productivity enhancements for communication ▪ Using OpenAI, Langchain, prompt engineering with Node.js for AI based productivity tools

Jan, 2023 - Present

3 years, 5 months

The University of Queensland

Jan, 2019 - Present

7 years, 5 months

Research and Teaching Assistant

Jan, 2019 - Present

7 years, 5 months

▪ Tutored Computer vision & Pattern recognition (YOLO, Siamese networks, VQVAQ, stable diffusion, transformers, StyleGAN ▪ Tutored, created exam content and simulators for Computer networking ▪ Tutored qualitative and quantitative subjects for social science ▪ Tutored advanced python for bioinformatics (grad) ▪ RA for Longitudinal student patterns for course planning at UQ ▪ AI/ML mentor for summer and internship projects ▪ Trainer for GPU clusters, virtual environments, and ML pipelines use

Doctoral student – AI, ML, UQ

Jan, 2019 - Present

7 years, 5 months

▪ Attention-based graph networks, convolution-free efficient architectures , fundamental research on efficient and stable surrogate losses for clustering and classification. ▪ NLP, topic models, data cleansing and visualization ▪ Dark web and social networks for author identification, intent detection ▪ Research & publications in AI/ML, and Cyber security, dark web ▪ Cloud and on premise-based GPU clusters for intensive work loads, performance profiling, and low-level code optimization

Jan, 2019 - Present

7 years, 5 months

Central Bank of Sri Lanka

Apr, 2005 - Oct, 2022

17 years, 6 months

Senior Assistant Director

May, 2007 - Oct, 2022

15 years, 5 months

▪ Implemented a comprehensive data scraping framework & data lake for measuring national statistics, owned the AI ML big data initiatives implemented departmental policy ▪ Selected, created, and coached 3 teams on data ETL, analysis and visualization ▪ Staff competency mappings, gap identification, and conducting technical trainings ▪ 4 member process reengineering team (BPR) for EPF (SL’s largest public fund, 10Bn USD)

Assistant Director

Apr, 2005 - May, 2007

2 years, 1 month

▪ Supervised a 6 staff IT help desk ( 3000+ users, 20+ departments, 30+ systems of 5+ architectures) ▪ Administered SAP/ABAP for EPF (the largest SL public fund, amounting to 10Bn USD) with configuration management with 100% uptime ▪ Sys admin for virus surveillance, internet, proxy, LDAP, Linux, AS400, licensing services ▪ Software development – C++/C#/PHP/JS frameworks/Open source/Python/Scripts ▪ Technical evaluation and consultancy for IT procurements, tender evaluations

Apr, 2005 - Oct, 2022

17 years, 6 months

Education

The University of Queensland

2018 - 2023

5 years

PhD: Machine learning

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Australia

2018 - 2023

5 years

Queen Mary, U. of London

2017 - 2018

1 year

MSc: Big Data Science

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United Kingdom

2017 - 2018

1 year

University of Moratuwa

2004 - 2006

2 years

MSc: Computer Networks

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Sri Lanka

2004 - 2006

2 years

Qualifications

ACMA

2007

Chartered Institute of Management Accountants

The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) is a United Kingdom-based professional body offering training and qualification in management accountancy and related subjects, focused on accounting for business; together with ongoing support for members.

2007

Publications

https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=G7mLXLUAAAAJ&hl

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