# Santhusha Janana Mudannayaka

> EECS ’27 UC Berkeley | SWE @ MoviCorn · Berkeley SkyDeck | Seeking Summer Internships

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/santhusha

I build software that ships and research that publishes.

Currently a software engineer at MoviCorn (Berkeley SkyDeck), where I'm one of the first 5 engineers building a platform to democratize film investing. Concurrently on UC Berkeley's ASUC Web Dev team.

Before that: NSF REU researcher at University of Chicago (Globus Lab, under Dr. Kyle Chard) refactoring Flight, a federated learning framework for privacy-preserving distributed ML. Engineering fellow at UCLA. Alpha tester for Andrew Ng's courses at DeepLearning.AI before public release.

Stack: Python, React, Node.js, PyTorch. Comfortable across ML systems and full-stack product engineering.

UC Berkeley EECS transfer (Class of 2027) previously at Golden West College, University of Moratuwa, and community-building HackSL to 3,000+ members across Sri Lanka.

Seeking a Summer 2026 SDE internship in AI/ML, full-stack engineering, or distributed systems.

📍 Berkeley, CA | Open to relocation

Let’s connect if you’re working at the intersection of research, software, and impact.
- santhushajanana@gmail.com

## Work Experience
### Software Developer @ Associated Students of the University of California
Jan 2026 – Present | Berkeley, CA
Member of the Web Development Team with the ASUC Office of the CTO

### Head of Community @ HackSL
Jan 2023 – Present | Sri Lanka
HackSL is a major Tech Community in Sri Lanka focused on Hackathons and Tech Events with 3000+ members across Sri Lankan Private and Public Universities.

We have partnered with Sri Lankan Universities to promote, make awareness and organize Hackathons in Sri Lanka.

Join HackSL - Sri Lankan 🇱🇰 Tech Enthusiasts Community 💻
👉HackSL Whatsapp channel : https://bit.ly/hacksl_channel  

🔗Career Tips by HackSL : https://chat.whatsapp.com/BV2JXIrmfRh6zMNOBGwtgn

### Software Engineer @ Berkeley SkyDeck
Jan 2026 – Jan 2026 | Berkeley, CA
One of the first 5 interns, contributing to the early development of a platform that aims to democratize film investing.

### AI Research Fellow @ Handshake
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | Berkeley, CA
Contributed to real-world AI research in collaboration with top AI labs. I worked on developing domain-specific prompts, evaluating LLM performance, and helped improve cutting-edge large language models.

### AT3 Fellow @ Micro Nano Technology Education Center (MNT-EC)
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | California, United States

### Software Engineer and Research Intern @ University of Chicago
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
NSF REU BigDataX program 2025

Work under the supervision of Dr. Ian Froster, Dr. Kyle Chard and Postdoctoral Scholar Nathaniel Hudson at the University of Chicago and the Globus Lab. Worked with Nathaniel to Refactor project "Flight".

### Student Assistant @ Golden West College
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Huntington Beach, California, United States
Federal Work Study - Student Assistant for Vice President of Administration

Worked under the supervision of Dawn Dittmer

### Student Mentor @ Golden West College
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Huntington Beach, California, United States
Guided STEM students to be successful in their community college journey through Raices Program

### Software Engineer and Research Intern @ California State University, Fullerton
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Fullerton, CA
The CIC | PCUBED program is a grant-funded research project at California State University, Fullerton, offering seven weeks of research and mentorship during Summer 2024. Led by Dr. Bein, Prof. Hamick-Shapiro, and Ms. Karina Vega, the program is sponsored by the Transfer Pathway grant. It provides an opportunity for all CS undergraduate students, including majors and minors, to engage in hands-on research and professional development.

### M4ML - Alpha Tester @ DeepLearning.AI
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | United States
Helped DeepLearning.ai to test new courses taught by Dr. Andrew Ng

### AI 4 Everyone Specialization - Mentor @ DeepLearning.AI
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
Worked with the AI 4 Everyone Specialization mentor community

### Software Engineer Intern @ promiseQ
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Berlin


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
UC Berkeley College of Engineering

### Bachelor of Science - BS
University of California, Berkeley

### Associate degree for Transfer in Computer Science
Golden West College

### Bsc. in Chemical & Process Engineering in Chemical Engineering
University of Moratuwa

### Physical Science
Ananda College

### Summer Study Abroad Program from UC Berkeley Study Abroad
University of Oslo

### Certificate Program in Deep Dive into Modern Wed Development
University of Helsinki

### Information Technology
CodePath


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/santhusha-mudannayaka

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Last updated: 2026-04-11