Im originally from Sri Lanka and currently a systems researcher at Bremen University. I do research in the areas of HCI, Computer Vision (Bio Med), Distributed Systems, and Multi Objective Reinforcement Learning. At night I do volunteer research and development at

  1. AITR Lab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa.
  2. Linux foundation and CNCF projects. While I have many other interests, As of Q4 2026, I spend most of my time working in urunc, OpenSearch and Apache Lucene.

My previous advisors are Prof. Roshan Godaliyadda, Prof. Peter Vamplew, and Dr. Thanuja Ambegoda

2024 - 2026 I worked at Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT) School of Computing as lecturer. Previously 2022 - 2024, I worked at Codification, as a Consultant Platform Engineer. Previously I have also worked Open University (FT), NSBM Green University (FT), University of Kelaniya (PT), and Informatics Institute of Technology (PT) as a Lecturer. I’m also a recipient of the Most Valuable Professional(MVP) Award from Microsoft. I was also a mentee at LFX’26 - urunc by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

I hold MSc in Big Data Analytics from Robert Gordon University, where I did research with Dr Sameera Viswakula’s lab. I also have an MBA from PIM, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, where I did research with Dr Samantha Rathnayake. I also have a BSc(1st) in Software Engineering from University of Plymouth, where I worked with Dr Rasika Ranaweera’s lab.

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Journal Publications
2025
Indexed Conference Proceedings
2026
2025
  • C. Wanigasooriya and I. Ekanayake , “NimbusGuard: A Novel Framework for Proactive Kubernetes Autoscaling Using Deep Q-Networks,” 2025, accepted and to be presented in 40th International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN). IEEE.
  • K. Gunathilake and I. Ekanayake , “K8s pro sentinel Extend secret security in kubernetes cluster” 2024 9th International Conference on Information Technology Research (ICITR), 2024, pp. 1–5, doi: 10.1109/ICITR64794.2024.10857769.
  • T. Mohomed and I. Ekanayake , “ARGO-SLSA Software Supply Chain Security in Argo Workflows,” 2025 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, 2025, pp. 245-250, doi: 10.1109/MERCon67903.2025.11217128.
2023
  • I. Ekanayake, J. Warnakula and S. Viswakula, “Reverse Engineering Piping and Instrumentation Drawings A Deep Learning Approach” 2023 International Conference on Power, Instrumentation, Control and Computing (PICC), Thrissur, India, 2023, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/PICC57976.2023.10142454.
  • I. Ekanayake and R. Ranaweera, “Augmented reality to improve motor functions and cognitive abilities of early childhood education” ACM SIGCHI Winter School – South Asia, 2023, pp. 1-4.
2022
Conference Review Committees
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