Kasthuriarachchi Nuran

Artificial Intelligence Engineer


Location

Singapore, SG (+65)

Phone

96.435.892

Intro

What I am all about.

A machine learning engineer passionate about cutting-edge technology and solving real-world problems, with previous experience on Airline Reservation Industry, Video Analytics, Image Processing in Dating Platforms and Chat-bot Creation.

Experience

Yes. I've been around.
April. 2021 - Present (Exp. - 4 mo)

Credit Agricole CIB

Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Singapore, SG

Developing Machine Learning Solutions for Banking using Python

June. 2019 - April. 2021 (Exp. : 1 yr 10 mo)

Hendricks Corp PTE. Ltd.

Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Singapore, SG

Architecting Machine Learning Solution for Video Analyzing using Python and C++
Architecting Face Mood Detection, Hand Pose Detection and People Detection Machine Learning Application for HPE Discover More 2019 Singapore Event
Enhancing Machine Learning Models using Resnet, Darknet, Yolo and Convolution Neural Networks to improve object detection for the in-house products
Developing Video Analytics application using Python, Tensorflow, C++, Yolo and Convolution Neural Networks

April. 2018 - Present (Exp. : 2 yr 1 mo)

Autochatic Pvt. Ltd

Technical Consultant (Remote)

Paris, FR

Architecting and Developing www.askcupido.com An AI based Dating Coach with Python, Deep CNN, Darknet and Computer Vision Algorithms
• Consulting and architecting software projects
Research and Development on technology improvements and Integrations to Chatbots
• Skype Chatbot Integration to the Autochatic Platform
• Integrating the main system to the Zapier Platform

July 2018 – June 2019 (1 yr)

Singapore University of Technology and Design

Research Assistant

Singapore, SG

Research on identifying finger indexed word on images and camera stream using Computer Vision Algorithms
• Android Application to deploy and configure the computer vision applications on hand-wearable device using Android SDK, Android NDK, Firebase and Google Computer Vision
• Analyse Camera Stream to locate finger contour using TensorFlow, OpenCV and Convolution Neural Networks
• Research on Mitigating issues related to Dyslexia, in children’s young age and Provide a better learning environment
• Administration portal to communicate with mobile devices for data analysis using Angular 6 and Spring Boot

March 2016 - April 2018 (Exp. - 2 yr 01 mo)

Proavos Labs Pvt. Ltd

Fullstack Developer

Colombo, SL

Full Stack Application Development of Passenger Service System for airlines like www.flyegypt.today and www.meraj.aero based on Java, Spring, Android, JavaScript, HTML and CSS3
• Retrieve PA DSS for payment gateways in Airline Passenger Service System
• On-Site Web Service Team Coordinator for Client Airlines
• Lead the QA team in developing a Selenium-based Test Automation Framework to Test the Passenger Service System
• Performance Tuning to gain 40 percent efficiency in the Passenger Service System by Investigating the System parameters using JProfiler and JMeter Based Load Tests
• Architecting and Configuring AWS and Azure based deployments for the Passenger Service System

May 2015 - Feb. 2016 (Exp. - 10 mo)

Syna Solutions

Fullstack Developer

Colombo, SL

• Architecting PHP(Laravel) Based Content Management System for www.myflightzone.com.au (Australia)
• Develop PA DSS Compliance Monitor for the requirement of syscolabs.lk
• Architecting and lead the team to Develop Utility Payment System based on Java, Spring, JavaScript, HTML and CSS

Oct. 2014 - May 2015 (Exp. - 7 mo)

Proavos Pvt Ltd

Fullstack Developer

Colombo, SL

Full Stack Application Development for Passenger Service System for airlines such as www.flybaghdad.net based on Java, Spring, JavaScript, HTML and CSS

Education

Lazy isn't in my vocabulary.
Oct. 2011 – Feb. 2016

University of Moratuwa

B.Sc. Eng. (Hons.) in Computer Sceince and Engineering

Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

GPA: 3.48 Second Class Upper Division
• Image Processing
• Intelligent Systems
• Advanced Algorithms

2002 – 2010

St.Joseph’s College

Secondary Education

Colombo, Sri Lanka

G.C.E Advanced Level : 3 As' from Physical Science Stream with a Sri Lankan Rank of 149 with Z-Score of 2.35/3.00 in the best 1st Percentile

Expertise

Batman would be jealous.
01

Machine Learning

Video Analytics, Computer Vision and Image Processing
CNN, R-CNN, Darknet, Yolo, Resnet and EfficientNet
Tensorflow, Pytorch

02

Computer Vision

Image Classification, Object Character Recognition, Object Detection, Image Segmentation and Face Emotion Detection

03

Algorithms

Top 15% in IEEE Extreme 6.0, 7.0, 9.0

04

Python, Java, C++/C and Bash Scripting

Flask, SqlAlchemy, Scrapy
Java SE & EE, Springboot, JPA, JDBC

05

Bot Creation

Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, Slack, Viber, Skype Chat bot creation
Alexa and google Voice Interface Creation

06

Web, Mobile Development and Deployment

HTML5, JS, CSS development
Android, Ios and Flutter Development
AWS and Azure Deployments

Skills

Progress bars, anyone?
80 %

Deep Learning

90 %

Python, Java, C++/C

75 %

NLP and Bot Creation

95 %

GIT

85 %

UI/UX Designing

75 %

Project Management

65 %

Web/Mobile Development

70 %

Cloud Deployments

Awards

Happy times!

Best Results in Physical Science Stream 2010

Best Results in Physical Science Stream with 3As' with Island rank 149 and District Rank 45


IEEE Extreme 9.0/7.0/6.0 (Within 15th percentile)

IEEE Extreme is a programming competition around the globe.


Kaggle - Taxi Trip Time Prediction Competition (R. 57)

This was a data processing problem which was completed using R