Nandana Mihindukulasooriya
Senior Research Scientist at IBM
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNandana Mihindukulasooriya is a Senior Research Scientist at IBM with 13 years of experience specializing in Semantic Web, Linked Data, and enterprise integration. He combines deep academic credentials—a PhD in AI—with hands-on engineering across Java/J2EE stacks, RDF/OWL/SPARQL tooling, and middleware (WSO2, Apache Jena, Camel) to build read-write Linked Data solutions and assess/repair data quality. His career spans research and product-focused roles, including a long-standing Apache committer/PMC membership and participation in the W3C Linked Data Platform working group, reflecting influence on open standards and open-source ecosystems. Nandana’s work bridges theory and practice: he publishes and prototypes at IBM while delivering production integrations for enterprise service architectures and security-aware web services. Based in New York, he brings a rare mix of formal ontology expertise and pragmatic middleware engineering that speeds adoption of Linked Data in real-world systems.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Eng, Computer Science and Engineering, BSc (Hons) Eng, Computer Science and Engineering at University of MoratuwaRoyal College, Colombo 07.MSc, European Master on Software Engineering, MSc, European Master on Software Engineering at Blekinge Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spanish, English, Sinhala
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Github Skills (150)
relation10
ietf10
filemaker10
sem10
w3c10
data-matching9
database9
chat9
sql-database9
wizard8
code-organization8
virtuoso8
ontologies8
record-linkage8
semantic-web8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nandana/w3id.org
Feb 2015 - Feb 2022
Website source code for w3id.org
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes in 7 years
smart-task/smart-dataset
Mar 2020 - Feb 2021
A repository to keep tools, scripts, data for SMART task.
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 11 months
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