Navin Pemarathne
Senior Data Scientist
Western Province, Sri Lanka
Summary
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Top SchoolNavin Pemarathne is a Senior Data Scientist with six years of experience blending software engineering rigor with applied AI/ML expertise, currently driving RAG and document-processing initiatives at IFS. He designs and operationalizes scalable pipelines and MLOps on Azure, pairing experimental research on LLMs with production-ready frameworks to improve retrieval relevance and contextual understanding. Prior roles span full‑stack engineering and backend systems, giving him a pragmatic edge in migrating legacy platforms and building robust APIs and services. Navin’s academic background includes an MSc in Data Science and a First Class BE in Computer Software Engineering, and he actively bridges industry and academia through talks and competition judging. A gaming enthusiast and researcher, he explores Deep Reinforcement Learning for game AI to enhance player experience—a perspective that fuels creative, game-informed approaches to problem solving. Colleagues know him for combining structured, experimental methods with a knack for novel, practical solutions.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering at Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT Campus)Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering, First Class Honours at University of WestminsterMSc, Data Science, MSc, Data Science at University of Colorado BoulderA/Ls: B, C, C | O/Ls: 9As, A/Ls: B, C, C | O/Ls: 9As at Royal College Colombo
Sinhala, English
Github Skills (5)
scrape6
discord-bot6
storm5
jekyll1
command-line1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NavinYP/autoPoster
Apr 2020 - Jun 2021
A simple Discord bot written using discord.py which can be used to post random images from a image collection locally stored on your hard drive to a server.
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 2 months
discord-bot
NavinYP/RedditScrapperBot
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
A Discord bot written using Discord.py that can scrape subreddit for links and post them on the server.
Contributions:46 commits, 12 PRs, 40 pushes in 2 years 8 months
discord-botscrape
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