Tharindu MacKie Mathew

About Tharindu MacKie Mathew

Most companies struggle with technical challenges that require both strategic thinking and deep technical expertise.As Fractional CTO of Dhakma I/O, I provide senior technical leadership when you need it—from high-level architecture decisions to hands-on problem solving. Whether you need someone to guide your technical roadmap or debug why your C++ server keeps crashing, I bring both the strategic vision and the technical depth to move your business forward.What I ProvideStrategic Leadership:Technical roadmap planning and architecture decisionsTeam building, hiring, and engineering culture developmentTechnology stack evaluation and migration planningVendor selection and technical due diligenceTechnical Problem Solving:Performance optimization and system debuggingLegacy system modernization and integration challengesDatabase optimization and scalability bottlenecksComplex technical issue resolutionWhy Fractional WorksYou get PhD-level expertise and 10+ years of industry experience (including 4 years at Microsoft) without the full-time executive commitment. I can step in as your technical leader for strategic decisions, then roll up my sleeves to solve the actual technical problems that are blocking progress.My BackgroundPhD in Computer Science from Purdue University. 10+ years solving both strategic and technical challenges across enterprise and startup environments. Technical co-founder experience combined with enterprise-scale system development at Microsoft.I bridge the gap between technical strategy and execution—understanding both what needs to be built and how to actually build it.Let\'s Connect If. You need senior technical leadership but not a full-time CTO Your technical challenges require both strategic thinking and hands-on expertise You\'re scaling your engineering organization and need experienced guidance You have complex technical problems that require deep expertise to solve You want someone who can both set technical direction and execute on itGreat technology leadership combines strategic vision with technical execution.Need fractional CTO services? Send me a message or visit dhakma.io to discuss your technical challenges.P.S- I share insights about technical leadership, system architecture, and solving complex engineering problems. Follow for practical advice from both the boardroom and the server room.

Experience

1. Founder & CEO

   Dhakma Ai

   Jun 2025 — Present · West Lafayette, IN, US

   Architecting an end-to-end synthetic data and instance segmentation pipeline for Aerial Surveying. Leading the evaluation and production deployment of Mask RCNN, YOLO, and SAM for high-precisionsegmentation. Designed a scalable inference engine on AWS, utilizing dynamic GPU/CPU scaling to process 4K imagesper minute.

Education

• Purdue University

  Master's degree, Computer Science

  2013 — 2015

• Purdue University

  Master of Science, Computational Science

• Purdue University

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science

  2015 — 2020

• University of Moratuwa

  Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering

• Purdue University

  Doctor of Philosophy, Computational Science

Skills

• C++
• Cuda
• Computer Vision
• Computer Graphics
• Opengl
• Opencv
• Deep Learning
• Caffe
• Unreal Engine 4
• Unity
• Mobile Robotics
• 3d Reconstruction
• Image Processing
• Video Processing
• Shaders
• Software Engineering
• Distributed Systems
• Open Source
• Javascript
• Soap
• Rest
• Oop
• Linux
• Object-Oriented Programming (Oop)
• Theano
• Tensorflow
• Keras
• Pytorch
• Machine Learning
• Software Development
• Programming
• Simulations
• Python
• Java
• Unreal Engine