Colombo, Sri Lanka Chapter

Hiran Indika

Indika Hiran Wijesinghe is an IT professional, an entrepreneur, Data Science evangelist who has been helping public sector institutes to adopt AI/ML based analytics to shape their IT strategy. Also he has been a mentor for numerous ICT startups where he advised in selecting correct DSML products that goes with business strategy. Currently he holds two masters including Big Data Analytics form Robert Gordon University. He is passionate about exploring and learning novel AI/ML technologies and applying them for betterment of public sector Institutes and society at large

Varuna

Varuna brings with him over 13 years of software engineering experience, including over 4 years of experience in leadership roles. He received his B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science from one of the top universities in Sri Lanka (Sri Jayewardenepura), where he was awarded the valedictorian. He worked closely with Canon Inc. to build industry-leading software solutions for digital printing presses.He eventually helped co-found Eniplex (Pvt) Ltd, where he served as CTO and worked closely with top companies to provide software solutions. His clients included DISCO Inc. He brings with him deep experience in data and software engineering, including experience and knowledge in AI/ML.He is currently working as a Tech Lead in AI at SelfDeocde and helped the to grow from 4 Engineers to nearly 50. Started to work as a backend engineer helping to transform the platform to Microservices and then helped to set up Data Pipelines and worked on AI R&D.