Data driven insights & insight driven products

I'm a technically competent full-stack data scientist & researcher with experience in leading, designing, implementing, and evaluating data science and big data systems end-to-end on-premises as well as on the cloud. I’m experienced in implementing search systems (information retrieval), recommender systems, mathematical/statistical models, and deep machine learning models. I’m comfortable in writing programs in many different programming languages, including Python, R, JavaScript, and Java, and implementing micro-service APIs. I’m familiar with software versioning, agile development practices, continuous delivery using modern DevOps techniques, and software testing techniques. I’ve managed small data science and software development teams. I focus on producing high-quality results to meet the diverse needs of the enterprise today.

Interests

• Machine Learning / Deep Learning

• Natural Language Processing (NLP) & Natural Language Understanding (NLU)

• Search / Information Retrieval (IR) & Recommendations

• Statistical Evaluation

• Big Data & Cloud Platforms

• Software Design & Engineering

Education

• Ph.D. in computer science (statistical evaluation of information retrieval and machine learning algorithms in the presence of many uncertainties), RMIT University, Australia

• B.Sc. in computer science and engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

• Advanced diploma in management accounting, CIMA (UK)

Certifications

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals

• Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals

• Former Cisco certified network associate