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Malinka Walaliyadde is CTO at Cornell Innovation Competition, based in South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Malinka Walaliyadde is the Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer, and a Board Member at AKASA, a specialized enterprise healthcare technology company. She established her technical foundation by earning a Bachelor of Science in Materials Engineering alongside a minor in Biomedical Engineering from Cornell University in New York. In her current executive capacity, she directs the strategic growth and product development of a venture that has successfully secured institutional capital from notable technology investment firms, including Andreessen Horowitz, BOND, and Costanoa Ventures. Throughout her professional career, she has cultivated deep domain expertise at the intersection of advanced Silicon Valley engineering and medical systems, positioning her to address complex operational inefficiencies within modern clinical environments. Walaliyadde currently focuses on scaling AKASA's proprietary technology platforms while continuing to modernize critical administrative and financial infrastructure across the broader healthcare sector.