Samitha Jayaweera

Samitha Jayaweera started their career as a Trainee Software Engineer at Virtusa in 2016. They then moved on to work at CodeGen International, where they held the positions of Software Engineer and Senior Software Engineer in the Research & Development Division. At CodeGen International, Samitha was involved in developing machine learning-based products in the travel and banking domain, and their responsibilities included requirement engineering, solution design, building and maintaining complex ETL pipelines, and configuring GPU clusters for deep learning.

In 2021, Samitha joined PickMe (Digital Mobility Solutions Lanka (PVT) Ltd) as an Associate Tech Lead, focusing on Data Engineering and Data Science. Here, they worked in the Data Science team and contributed to the development of machine learning-based products in the Transportation & Mobility domain. They also conducted large-scale data analysis, statistical inference, and predictive modeling.

Currently, Samitha is working as a Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Arcadea Group. In this role, they utilize state-of-the-art LLMs to drive efficiency enhancements and streamline workflows across Arcadea's and its portfolio companies. They conduct rigorous evaluations and ensure the optimal performance of machine learning models in real-world scenarios.

Samitha Jayaweera completed a Master's degree in Big Data Analytics from Robert Gordon University from 2019 to 2021. Prior to that, they obtained a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Information Technology from the University of Moratuwa, where they studied from 2013 to 2017. In 2012, they pursued strategic level and case study courses at CIMA. Samitha'ssecondary education includes completing an Advanced level in the Maths stream at Royal College Colombo from 2003 to 2011. Samitha attended S.Thomas' College, Bandarawela from 1998 to 2003. Additionally, they have obtained certifications from Coursera in various machine learning topics in 2021.