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Hi, I am Amila

Amila Viraj

Senior Lead Engineer - Data Science at Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC

Experienced Data Scientist with 6+ years including Machine Learning and Software Engineering; excels in developing AI applications and exploring new technologies. Recognized for strategic problem-solving and operational improvements with a strong analytical background. Passionate about AI/ML and Data Science, with great interpersonal, self-motivating, fast learning, team working skills. Love to learn new stuff and work with like-minded people to solve interesting real-world problems.

Problem Solving
Team Work
Leadership
Fast Learning
Creativity
Communication

Skills

Python
Python

Using as the main language for professional development. Capable of using different libraries and frameworks to analyz, explore and visualize the data and have experience in developing and deploying the models to production.

Machine Learning
Machine Learning

Applied Supervised and Unsupervised techniques to build the models and get the prediction. Have knowledge of different statistical models and their optimization techniques.

Deep Learning
Deep Learning

Have knowledge and hands on experience in building stae of the art ANNs.

Data Analytics
Data Analytics

Capable of collecting and interpreting data. Analyzing and reporting results. identifying the patterns and trends in the dataset.

Cloud
Cloud

Deployed many ML and DL web apps in Heroku. Have Working experience with Docker and Anaconda virtual environments and also have basic knowledge about netlify and AWS.

Platforms, IDE and Operating Systems
Platforms, IDE and Operating Systems

Platforms and IDEs : Jupyter Notebook, VSCode, Google Colab.
Operating Systems: Windows, Linux.

Development Frameworks
Development Frameworks

Have knowledge and hands-on experience in building state of the art ANNs in
Pytorch, Keras, Pytorchlightning, Tensorflow.

Deployment Frameworks
Deployment Frameworks

Served ML and DL models as a web application using different frameworks like
Flask, Streamlit and Gradio

Databases and Query Languages
Databases and Query Languages

Known Databases: Mysql, Firebase.
Known query languages: SQL, Bigquery.

Other Languages
Other Languages

Have knowledge in the following programing languages
C, C++, HTML, CSS, JS.

Version Controlling and Source Code Management.
Version Controlling and Source Code Management.

Have the Working Experience in Git, Github, DVC and Dagshub.

Experiences

1
Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC

August 2022 - August 2023

Colombo

The Commercial Bank of Ceylon is a large commercial bank in Sri Lanka. It was established in 1939 and is one of the oldest and the largest private sector bank in the country. The bank offers a range of financial products and services to individuals, businesses, and corporations, including savings and checking accounts, loans, credit cards, and investment products. The bank has a network of branches and ATMs throughout Sri Lanka, as well as international branches in Bangladesh, Myanmar, and the Maldives.

Senior Lead Engineer - Data Science

August 2022 - August 2023

Responsibilities:
  • Communicate and work closely with clients, senior management, stakeholders and other technical teams for AI and Data Science based solution development.
  • Developed an award-winning financial modeling solution to identify potential corporate customers, which increased the bank’s revenues.
  • Designing, development and deployment of application components and ML pipelines.
  • ML model training, retraining, testing and deployments.
  • Monitoring and resolving performance issues in application components, ML models and algorithms.
  • Maintain coding standards, conducting code reviews and support team members on technical issue resolution.
  • Working specially on Financial use cases with different AI/ML & Big data technologies.
Engenuity Ai

July 2021 - July 2022

Colombo

Engenuity Ai is a cutting edge Ai and Data Science company which helps clients to extract valuable business insights from their data to better understand their audience, forecast demand, reduce risks, prevent cost overruns, also to create innovative & market-leading solutions and much more.

Data Scientist

July 2021 - July 2022

Responsibilities:
  • Actively contributed and guided multiple projects in multiple domains for different local and foreign clients.
  • Data science and Data Engineering processes throughout the experience.
  • Specially worked in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision & Image processing, Deep Learning and Time Series ML products.
  • Maintain coding standards, conducting code reviews and support team members on technical issue resolution.
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Virtusa

September 2017 - June 2021

Colombo

Virtusa Corporation is a global provider of Digital Business Transformation, Digital Engineering, and Information Technology (IT) outsourcing services that accelerate our clients’ journey to their Digital Future. Virtusa serves Global 2000 companies in Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare, Telecommunications, Media, Entertainment, Travel, Manufacturing, and Technology industries.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

January 2021 - June 2021

Responsibilities:
  • Collaborated with multiple AI research & development teams to design & develop advanced AI solutions for different overseas clients in different business domains. Specially in banking and finance industry.
Software & AI/ML Engineer

March 2019 - December 2020

Responsibilities:
  • Worked with AI/ML & software development teams to design & implement intelligent solutions and ensure accurate integrations and deployments.
Software Engineering Intern

September 2017 - February 2018

Responsibilities:
  • Contributed to the production solutions’ development and deployment.
Omdena

- Present

Remote

Omdena is a collaborative platform to build innovative, ethical, and efficient AI solutions to real-world problems.

Machine Learning Engineer (Open-Source Contributions)

- Present

Responsibilities:
  • Working in collaboration with ML teams to create an Automated Redaction Wizard that utilizes optical character recognition (OCR), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Machine Learning Algorithms.
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Education

State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA
2023-2024
MS Industrial Engineering (Data Science)
Taken Courses:
  • Statistical Machine Learning
  • Deep Learning
  • Data Analysis & Predictive Modeling
  • Data Mining
  • Data Intensive Computing
  • Decision Systems (Modeling & Risk Informed Decision Making)
  • GeoSpatial Optimizations & Dynamic Visualization
  • Business Intelligence & Data Analytics
  • Project Management
University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
2021-2023
M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence
Taken Courses:
  • Neuroscience & Neurocomputing
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Applied Machine Learning
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Artificial Cognitive Systems
  • Evolutionary Computing
  • Fuzzy Reasoning
  • Data Mining & Data Warehousing
  • Embedded Robotics
  • Distributed Computing Systems for AI
  • Deductive Reasoning & Logic Programming
  • Software Agents & Swarm Intelligence
  • Research Methodologies
  • Philosophy of Science
University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
2015-2019
B.Sc. (Hons) in Information Technology
Taken Courses:
  • Data Structures and Algorithms
  • Software Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Enterprise Application Development
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Database Management Systems
  • Digital Image Processing
  • Human Computer Interaction
  • Supply Chain Management

Projects

AutoInspectPro - Computer Vision Based Vehicle Damage Assessment
AutoInspectPro - Computer Vision Based Vehicle Damage Assessment
Team Lead/ Developer

Ai strategy for vehicle damage assessment using computer vision and digital image processing techniques.

Computer Vision Deep Learning Image Processing Docker PyTorch Detectron2 OpenCV Flask
Star
Financial Forecasting - International Market Analysis
Financial Forecasting - International Market Analysis
Lead Engineer (Data Science) / Developer

Won Silver Award in NBQSA 2023. A robust financial modeling solution, incorporating financial, exchange markets & other socio-economic indexes to forecast future market trends.

Machine Learning Visualizations Time Series Python Scikit-learn Apache Airflow Tableau SQL Apache Spark
Details
Lucid - Document Review, Processing & OCR Extraction
Lucid - Document Review, Processing & OCR Extraction
Project Lead/ Developer

NLP rich, intelligent solution for document scanning, automated OCR parsing, and extraction of key information and context aware content searching from different pdf and image documents.

Machine Learning NLP Python Image Processing Image Processing Tesseract OCR Pymupdf OpenCV Transformers TensorFlow FastAPI Docker
Star
Sales Forecasting Modelling
Sales Forecasting Modelling
Data Scientist/ Developer

Purpose of this project was to build a sales forecasting model incorporating external factors in order to forecast future sales accurately.

Regression Machine Learning Visualizations Time Series Statistical Modeling Python PowerBI Pandas Scikit Learn Matplotlib
Renters OCR Extraction & Document Processing
Renters OCR Extraction & Document Processing
ML Engineer

Development of an intelligent solution with backend APIs for document scanning, automating OCR parsing, and extraction of key information from different document templates (ex- rental agreements, invoices, W2 forms, etc.).

Machine Learning Computer Vision Paddle OCR Tesseract OCR OpenCV Pymupdf TensorFlow Flask
Deep Learning Based Named Entity Recognition
Deep Learning Based Named Entity Recognition
Developer

Development of neural network based model to identify and extract defined named entities from transaction related documents.

Deep Learning TensorFlow Keras Pandas Numpy Scikit Learn
Intelligent Chatbot Solution
Intelligent Chatbot Solution
Developer

Implementation of domain specific, inteligent, voice enabled chatbot solution to interact with users to assist with mer problems/iconcems documents.

Python TensorFlow Keras NLP NLTK NumPy Pandas Flask Bootstrap JavaScript
Star
DMS - Document Classification Solution
DMS - Document Classification Solution
ML Engineer

NLP based intelligent solution to digitize and classification of different user-based banking documents including images. The project was focused on building intelligent application components to classify different documents collected from various sources. Also comprises different modules to enhance the quality of the documents, extract text/characters from the documents, handling file types & classifications of documents.

Machine Learning Python OCR Pandas Numpy Scikit Learn NLP NLTK
Profile Based Sentiment Analysis
Profile Based Sentiment Analysis
Developer

Sentiment Analysis solution from news article contents to identify the sentiment tones which are obtained as search results for entities that appear in financial transactions.

NLP Python Custom Search Pandas Numpy Scikit Learn

Accomplishments

Azure Cloud Certifications
Azure | Microsoft

Completed Certifications:
1. Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate
2. Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals
3. Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

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Conversational AI
Kore.ai

Kore.ai Certified Professional - Virtual Assistant Platform Developer Basic & Advance Training Certifications.

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Deep Learning Specialization
DeepLearning.ai

This course is a specialization in deep learning. It includes

  • Neural Networks and Deep Learning
  • Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization
  • Structuring Machine Learning Projects
  • Convolutional Neural Networks

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    Hackathons & Coding Competitions

  • Datathon 2019 - 2nd Runners Up
  • moraXtreme 3.0 Coding Competition
  • FIT CodeRush Coding Competition 2018
  • FIT CodeRush Coding Competition 2017

    • Achievements

    Datathon - 2nd Runner Up

    ChallengerX - Finalist