# Dr Koliya — Dr Dinindu Koliya Wedanage

> Dr Dinindu Koliya Wedanage (Dr Koliya) is an AI Architect and the Co-Founder & CTO of Coderra, based in Sydney, Australia. He designs and builds production-grade agentic AI systems, LLM platforms, RAG architectures and intelligent automation, and holds a PhD in Data Science from the University of Wollongong.

## Profile
- Name: Dr Dinindu Koliya Wedanage (also known as Dinindu Koliya Wedanage, Dinindu Koliya Harshanath, Koliya Wedanage, Dr Koliya)
- Role: AI Architect · Co-Founder & CTO at Coderra
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Email: info@koliya.com.au
- Website: https://www.koliya.com.au

## Core expertise
- Agentic AI Systems: Multi-agent workflows with planning, tool use and orchestration, designed with evaluation and guardrails so they behave reliably in production.
- LLM Platforms & RAG: Building and operating LLM-backed products: prompting, routing, retrieval, grounding and citations, with cost and latency control at scale.
- AI Search Optimisation (AISO / GEO / AEO): Making businesses visible and citable across search engines, LLMs and AI answer engines, extending SEO into generative and answer-engine discovery.
- Intelligent Automation: Automating customer and operational workflows, including conversational messaging and SMS agents that respond to real demand.
- Data & ML Engineering: Pipelines and ETL/ELT across GCP/BigQuery, AWS, Databricks and Snowflake, plus forecasting, NLP and predictive models that turn data into decisions.
- AI Architecture & Governance: Scalable, secure and sovereign AI infrastructure with evaluation, observability, privacy and compliance built in from day one.

## Current work
- Coderra (Co-Founder & CTO): Coderra builds production-grade agentic AI products that help businesses become more visible, more discoverable and more responsive to customer demand.
  - AISO: An agentic AI platform that improves visibility across search, LLMs, content, citations and social channels, turning scattered signals into governed, actionable insight.
  - CommOps: Automates customer interactions across messaging channels, starting with conversational SMS agents that handle real customer demand.

## Verified links
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dkharshanath
- X: https://x.com/DininduKoliya
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?hl=en&user=0lEE3VQAAAAJ
- ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dinindu-Webadu-Wedanage
- Coderra: https://coderra.com.au

## Selected research
- Forecasting healthcare cost in Australia using health insurance claims data (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9698885)
- Investigating leading indicators for hospitalisation in Australia using health insurance claims data (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9741002)
- AI Solution to Assist Online Education Productivity (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9965735)
- Universal Sinhala Library: Language-Specific Encryption Platform for Sinhala (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9734085)

## Q&A
Q: Who is Dr Koliya?
A: Dr Koliya is Dr Dinindu Koliya Wedanage, an AI Architect and the Co-Founder & CTO of Coderra, based in Sydney, Australia. He holds a PhD in Data Science from the University of Wollongong and builds production-grade agentic AI, LLM and RAG systems.

Q: What does Dr Koliya specialise in?
A: Agentic AI systems, LLM platforms, RAG and knowledge systems, AI Search Optimisation (AISO/GEO/AEO), intelligent automation, data and ML engineering, and AI architecture and governance.

Q: What is Coderra?
A: Coderra is an Australian company building production-grade agentic AI products: AISO (AI Search Optimisation) and CommOps (AI-powered communication operations). Dr Koliya is its Co-Founder & CTO.

Q: How can Dr Koliya help organisations?
A: He helps organisations design and ship production-grade AI: architecture and strategy, agentic/LLM/RAG systems, evaluation and governance, data platforms and AI commercialisation, plus lecturing, workshops and CTO/founder advisory.

Q: Is Dr Koliya available for AI consulting or advisory in Australia?
A: Yes. Dr Koliya is a Sydney-based AI Architect available for enterprise AI strategy, agentic AI implementation, LLM and RAG platform design, AISO/GEO consulting, advisory and speaking.

Q: Does Dr Koliya speak, teach or run workshops on AI?
A: Yes. He is a visiting lecturer and is available for talks, workshops and teaching on agentic AI, LLM/RAG systems and taking AI from theory to production.

Q: How do I work with Dr Koliya?
A: Use the contact form or the assistant on this site, or book a call. For anything else, email info@koliya.com.au.

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