Tharindu Ekanayake
Yliopistokatu 4 A 308, OULU
Summary
Reliable and ambitious technology enthusiast with innovative thinking skills seeking further exposure in AI and a challenging opportunity to pursue a career in the domains of deep learning, machine learning and computer vision.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Internship
Machine Vision and Signal Analysis Center, University of Oulu
Oulu
06.2024 - 08.2024
- I was responsible for planning the AI at the Edge Bachelor’s Thesis Project Course. I was organizing project topics, creating materials, and handling technical aspects like configuring and setting up devices. I trained and converted models using TensorFlow and PyTorch for object detection and classification, converted TensorFlow models to TensorFlow Lite with quantization for Coral TPU accelerators, and benchmarked model performance. Additionally, I planned thesis topics and prepared demonstrations to showcase AI applications, using these insights to develop detailed project content and scope.
Machine Learning Engineer
ZOOMi Softlab
Colombo
07.2021 - 12.2023
- Design and Engineer Machine Learning Systems / Investigate and Apply Machine Learning Techniques and Instruments / Create Artificial Intelligence Solutions and Algorithms for Automation Objectives.
- Participated in projects involving AI technologies such as object detection, segmentation, classification, object tracking, and Large Language Models with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems.
- Developed LayerNext, a platform for data management and training of computer vision models.
Computer Vision Engineer (On Contract)
nSight Surgical
San Francisco
06.2021 - 07.2023
- Developed a Machine Learning framework focused on enhancing patient safety in hospitals and optimizing surgical workflows / Utilized object detection models (YOLO), pose estimation tools (VitPose, OpenPose, YOLOv7), object tracking algorithms (DeepSORT, ByteTrack, OcSORT, StrongSORT), and inference systems (OpenCV, Pytorch, ONNX). Implemented multi-processing and communication pipelines (Web-Sockets, ZMQ) along with REST-APIs.
Freelance Machine Learning Developer
Fiverr
11.2019 - 12.2022
- Managed a Gig for Machine learning, deep learning and computer vision related solutions / providing Model training and evaluations / Model deployments with REST APIs.
Engineer - Converged Charging
Dialog Axiata PLC
10.2020 - 07.2021
- Development and operations in converged charging system (OCS) / project planning / provisioning, and deployments for charging network.
Education
Master of Science - Artificial Intelligence
University of Oulu
Oulu, Finland12-2024
Bachelor of Science - Electrical And Electronic Engineering
University of Peradeniya
Sri Lanka, Kandy04.2019
Skills
- Programming Languages: Python
- ML Tools: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, Numpy, Matplotlib, scikit-learn, OpenCV
- Object Detection/Tracking: YOLOv4 v5 v8, Mask-RCNN, Faster-RCNN / DEEP-SORT, ByteTrack, StrongSort, BotSort
- OCR: TesseractOCR, PaddleOCR
- Facial Recognition: FaceNet, VGGFace, Dlib, OpenFace, DeepFace
- Image/Video Classification: InceptionResnetV2, VGGnet, Inception, Xception, ResNeXt, CVNets
- Image Segmentation: Mask-RCNN, U-NET, YOLOv8 v7
- Pose Estimation: OpenPose, VitPose
- NLP: Image Captioning (LSTMs, CNNs), LLMs (LLAMA, GPT, RAG systems)
- GAN
- Regression and Classification: SVM, Decision Trees, Naive Bayes
- Development/Operations Tools: GitHub, Flask, Docker, Databases (MySQL, MongoDB), Linux, AWS (S3, EC2, RDS), GCP
- Data Mining
- Edge Devices: Nvidia Jetson (Nano, Orin, AGX Xavier), Raspberry pi , Edge TPU accelerator, Hailo AI processor
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Internship
Machine Vision and Signal Analysis Center, University of Oulu
06.2024 - 08.2024
Machine Learning Engineer
ZOOMi Softlab
07.2021 - 12.2023
Computer Vision Engineer (On Contract)
nSight Surgical
06.2021 - 07.2023
Engineer - Converged Charging
Dialog Axiata PLC
10.2020 - 07.2021
Freelance Machine Learning Developer
Fiverr
11.2019 - 12.2022
Master of Science - Artificial Intelligence
University of Oulu
Bachelor of Science - Electrical And Electronic Engineering
University of Peradeniya
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