Team

The people building Spyndle

Computational biochemistry, biophysics, and agentic systems applied to AAV capsid decisions.

Core team

Manith Marapperuma

Manith Marapperuma

Co-Founder · Lead Research Engineer, Knowledge Graph & Molecular Dynamics

Foundational AI researcher with expertise in AI agents, computational biochemistry, and quantum computing. Builds AI-driven systems and data-intensive applications for biotech and drug discovery.

Kavindi Hettiarachchi

Kavindi Hettiarachchi

Lead Biochemist

Computational chemistry graduate with experience in protein dynamics, machine learning, structural biology, and drug design. Applies computational approaches to complex biological systems.

Kavindu Eranda

Kavindu Eranda

Lead Biophysicist

Computational mathematics graduate from the University of Colombo with experience in quantum computing, molecular simulations, protein–ligand modeling, and scientific computing.

Advisor

Juliyan Gunasinghe

Juliyan Gunasinghe

Advisor

Cheminformatics and medicinal chemistry researcher pursuing a PhD at the University of Melbourne (MSc Biotechnology, Swinburne). Published in mechanism-encoded SAR, chemical space topology, and ligand optimisation across Cambridge, NUS, MIPS, and Melbourne collaborations.