Dr. Lochana Menikarachchi

Dr. Lochana Menikarachchi

Founder & Lead Trainer

Lochana is the founder and lead trainer of LifeSciDevs. He holds a PhD from the University of Connecticut, USA, and brings 20 years of experience in academia and the software industry. He is the creator of the copyrighted life sciences software tools MolFind, IIMDB, and DASI. He also contributes to training frontier LLMs as an independent contractor at Pareto.AI.

Maggie

Maggie

Chief Operating Bot

As the Chief Operating Bot of LifeSciDevs, Maggie handles onboarding, invite tracking, and course enrollments. She also manages Skill Coins, the virtual currency of the server economy. Named after Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, the 'Mother of Bioinformatics,' Maggie ensures the community runs with precision. She just hasn't gotten around to creating a LinkedIn profile yet.

Mr. Balathasan Sayanthan

Mr. Balathasan Sayanthan

Advisor

Balathasan Sayanthan is an advisor to LifeSciDevs. He holds a BSc in CS (UoP), is a CIMA (UK) finalist and a Chevening Rolls-Royce Fellow (Oxford). With a background in tech and strategy, he is building Manja AI, an AI-powered sales coaching and conversational analytics platform. A founding member of Yarl IT Hub, he actively fosters Northern Sri Lanka's innovation ecosystem.