Building a Full Stack General AI Ecosystem for Everyone

Build decentralized, trustworthy, and scalable digital data sharing ecosystems for biomedical data using the blockchain.Assist Prof. Oshani Seneviratne in the research and development of a data sharing ecosystem for biomedical research. I led efforts in developing cloud infrastructure and explored tokenomics policies for incentivizing data sharing in decentralized research networks.https://rukmal.me/resume/work-experience/research-collaborator

Provide world-class vocational education to underprivileged students left behind by the system across Sri Lanka.I worked on developing the technical infrastructure that enables the organization's scaling model to grow to a network of 320 schools, and collaborate with the Leadership Team to guide the overall strategy and vision of the foundation.https://rukmal.me/resume/work-experience/strategy-and-technology-consultant

Deliver a SaaS Cybersecurity solution with federated AI-powered network detection and response solutions for securing hybrid cloud enterprises; globally, and at scale.I designed, developed, and owned the core ETL pipeline powering the company's Cloud Detection product, Reveal(X) 360. I was an early member of the Data Science team, working on developing ML models for detecting anomalous behavior on the wire. The company was acquired by Bain Capital and Crosspoint Capital Partners for nearly $1 Billion in July 2021 following the introduction of Reveal(X) 360.https://rukmal.me/resume/work-experience/software-engineer-data-science

Design neuroprosthetics to restore partial motor function to patients with late-stage Parkinson's disease with the Sensorimotor Control Lab.I built software to perform signal processing on neural inputs from sensors around patient's bodies, collaborating with Dr. Marty Burns and Prof. Ramana Vinjamuri. The sanitized inputs were then used to drive the HEXOES glove, a neuroprosthetic designed to stabilize intended movements by the patients.https://rukmal.me/resume/work-experience/research-assistant

Enable the Hanlon Financial Systems Laboratory to more effectively deliver courses for the School of Business at Stevens.I spearheaded efforts to implement new technology solutions to help realize the teaching and research goals of the lab, including assisting instructors and students (undergraduate and graduate), as well as maintaining hardware and software resources.https://rukmal.me/resume/work-experience/laboratory-assistant

Power next generation assisted medical guidance software with Knowledge Graphs.As a Summer Research Fellow at the HEALS Research Center, I collaborated with Prof. Deborah McGuinness and other RPI faculty and students to develop applied ML graph algorithms to more effectively model patient treatment guidelines, enabling medical recommendations and guidance by autonomous systems. I developed a generalized framework to determine "community trust" in a given publication by analyzing citation graphs (see: https://rukmal.me/projects/paperrank-framework). I also developed a collection of ancillary tools for the HEALS project.https://rukmal.me/resume/work-experience/summer-research-fellow

College of Engineering; University of WashingtonOther Titles: Control Systems Team Member, Impact Development Team Lead• Represented the University of Washington at the inaugural SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition in Hawthorne, CA. We placed 4th in the United States, and 6th globally; the competition initially received 1,700 team proposals, which were narrowed down to 30 finalists.• Led the Business Management Team to launch a highly successful crowdfunding campaign, raising over $20,000 in cash (with an initial goal of $10,000), and over $80,000 of source materials used in the construction of the Pod. The collective effort of the team led us to have the lowest-cost Pod among the 30 final teams.• Spearheaded the sourcing and delivery of over $50,000 of raw material, including high-density Carbon Fiber, release agents, and powerful Neodymium magnets for the final Pod assembly.• Led sponsor outreach, and maintained relationships with internal (at the University of Washington) and external supervisors and supporters.• Assisted the Controls Team Lead in the final design and implementation of electronic mapping and wiring on the Pod.• Contributed to late-stage troubleshooting efforts that led to the successful implementation and deployment of Halbach arrays on the Pod, which facilitated levitation and magnetic propulsion on the test track.• Explored the transformative economic and social effects a hypothetical Hyperloop system could have on the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

Other Titles: Software Engineering Intern• Designed a highly scalable and efficient software ETL stack, building datasets from various social networking platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.• Developed natural language processing and sentiment analysis algorithms to derive "social GPA" scores from a user’s social profiles.• Refactored and modularized the entire company codebase, to enable efficient component-based auto scaling with Apache Stratos and Amazon AWS.• Implemented a mobile-first web end user interface for the platform, and redesigned the internal company management console.

Other Titles: Avionics Team Lead• Led the avionics team to design a communications software architecture paradigm for the on-board computer systems of the (previously; changed to LEO by NASA) Lunar-orbit CubeSAT.• Investigated the effect of radiation beyond the Van-Allen belts (experienced during translunar flight). Recommended ideal processor architectures and other redundant measures that may be taken to mitigate the effect of this radiation on the flight systems of the CubeSAT.• Proposed a system of Hamming codes to increase data transfer fidelity during data dumps from the CubeSAT to the ground station at the University of Washington. Identified specific data encoding paradigms to increase data throughput to the Earth downlink from the CubeSAT.• Presented a final communications software architecture proposal to a panel of researchers from the Advanced Propulsion Laboratory and NASA.• The UW CubeSAT was deployed to low-Earth orbit as secondary payload on a Cygnus cargo spacecraft, which launched aboard a Northup Grumman Antares rocket in 2019.

• Investigated the viability of alternate hypervisor stacks for eventual integration with the Apache Stratos Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) framework.• Developed a new user interface for the Stratos Manager Console using the JaggeryJS MVC framework, which was packaged and shipped with Stratos version 4.1.0.• Conducted isolated integration tests with the CoreOS+Docker (LXC-based) hypervisor stack as an alternative to the existing hypervisor (KVM) used in Stratos.

Mullins Molecular Retrovirology LaboratoryDepartment of Microbiology; University of Washington• Assisted the Lead Scientific Programmer of the lab in identifying and extracting sequences of mutated genes in human genome sequences.• Developed algorithms which aided in the creation of targeted retroviral therapies for patients with HIV/AIDS.• Created efficient and scalable data traversal algorithms for the ingestion and transformation of large humangenome sequences.• Utilized Hyperfreq, a tool for Bayesian analysis of APOBEC3G-induced hypermutations, to identify sequences ofthe genome likely to have been mutated.