
Thushan Fernando
Founder & Principal Engineer
Melbourne, Australia
Thushan is the founder of TensorFoundry and the lead engineer behind Olla, the open-source LLM proxy and load balancer. Over 25+ years building software, he's specialised in low-level, performance-critical systems work across search, machine learning, and GPU-heavy compute, mostly in Go, Rust and Zig. Previously at SEEK and Readify, where he worked on low-latency search infrastructure and built NeoSearch, an efficient edge-model search platform serving ML at scale. TensorFoundry pivoted to AI infrastructure when the first Llama models landed; the bet was that on-premise inference would matter as much as the models themselves. Based in Melbourne, Australia.
- Low-latency systems
- Search & information retrieval
- Machine learning infrastructure
- GPU compute
- Go
- Rust
- Zig