Lakshith Nishshanke

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Career

Jan 2025 - present
AI dev - Joined Linfield Labs and trying to figure out how to use LLM + agentic advancements in DevOps. Working on experimental Open Source projects at the moment.
Aug 2023 - Jan 2025
Dev (Fullstack + python + ML) - After a short break joined back again with Labml.ai. Working on two open-source projects: Labml App to monitor machine learning experiments in real-time through mobile interfaces, and Inspectus, a visualization tool focused on large language models. Contributing to nn.labml.ai (Repository of Annotated ML Research paper implementations) when I can. Currently getting closer to the ML side of things. Inspectus Repo, Labml Repo.
June 2023 - Present
UCSC undergrad - Took a break from work to start university studies. Currently following the Computer Science degree program in University of Colombo School of Computing.
Dec 2022 - Apr 2023
iOS Dev - After the web app, we started an iOS app, PromptArt. Faced interesting challenges like handling a large number of images in a memory-efficient manner and keeping stable web socket connections while recovering failures.
Mar - Dec 2022
Fullstack Dev - Joined right after A levels. First I started working on the front end of a web app to find trending machine learning papers. Shortly after I switched to work on something very similar to platform.openai.com. Sort of a platform to inference LLMs and visualize outputs. Labml.ai experimented with improving open-source LLMs (GPT Neox) with debugging features and fine-tuning. Next, I worked on a web app for Stable Diffusion inferencing. Discounnted projects

Achievements

IEEExtreme

  • IEExtreme 18.0
    • University Rank: 1
    • National Rank: 2
    • Regional Rank: 27
    • World Rank: 75
  • IEExtreme 17.0
    • University Rank: 1
    • National Rank: 4
    • Regional Rank: 78
    • World Rank: 152

The International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI)

  • Informatics Olympiad 19
    • Participated in the national informatics olympiad and got a silver medal.
    • Competed in the international olympiad held in Azerbaijan as a member of the national team.
  • Asia Pacific Informatics Olympiad 2020
    • Was the top scorer for APIO 2020 in the Sri Lanka National delegation.
  • Informatics Olympiad 20
    • Again got a silver medal in the national olympiad.
    • Represented Sri Lanka again at the IOI 2021. Relative performance was significantly improved. (From 6% in 2019 to 30% in 2020)
  • Informatics Olympiad 22
    • Got a bronze medal in the national Olympiad.
    • Competed again as a member of the national team but the performance was comparatively lower.

Google Competitions

  • Google HashCode 2021 - Sri Lanka 4th / World 1800
  • Google HashCode 2022 - Sri Lanka 12th / World 1211
  • Google KickStart round A 2022 - Sri Lanka 2nd / World 1974
  • Google KickStart round B 2022 - Sri Lanka 2nd / World 1202

Hackathons

  • Got the First place in Aces Coders V10.0 competitive Programming Competition organized by University of Peradeniya.

Robotics

  • Participated in some Robotic competitions while I was in high school. The most significant achievement is:
  • IESL Robogames 2022 - Winner

Talks

Infinite Loop

Infinite Loop

Data structures and algorithms - Introduction to basics

IEEXtreme Workshop

IEEXtreme Workshop

Conquering Complex Problems - A step by step approach

ReidExtreme Workshop

ReidExtreme Workshop

An introduction to competitive programming