Asitha Kottahachchi
PHD Candidate
Australia
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Top SchoolAsitha Kottahachchi is a PhD candidate and machine learning-focused software engineer with 8 years of experience building web applications and conducting deep learning research. He combines practical full-stack skills—notably ReactJS front-ends—with hands-on computer vision and deep learning work from his undergraduate thesis and research at SCoRe Lab. He has industry experience as a senior software engineer and mentorship roles in Google Summer of Code and Google Code-In, demonstrating strong collaboration and community engagement. Based in Australia and self-taught in several ML areas, he bridges academic research at RMIT with production-minded engineering, making him adept at translating novel models into usable products.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at Isipathana College - Colombo 05Bachelor of Science (Hons), Computer Science, First Class, Bachelor of Science (Hons), Computer Science, First Class at University of ColomboDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at RMIT University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (35)
dictionary10
firestore10
firebase10
react10
data-structures8
algorithms8
convolutional-neural-networks7
android6
network-flow6
react-native-image-picker6
string-matching6
open-source6
python6
algorithm6
react-native6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
scorelab/com-dictionary
May 2020 - Aug 2020
Community Dictionary
Contributions:42 commits, 12 PRs, 1 comment in 2 months
dictionary
AsithaIndrajith/JAVALearning
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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