Tharindu Bandaragoda
Principal Data Scientist
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolTharindu Bandaragoda is a Principal Data Scientist based in Melbourne with 9+ years blending academic research and industry delivery in machine learning, forecasting and NLP. He has led cross-functional teams at Endeavour Group and Coles to build end-to-end forecasting and promotional optimisation platforms, productionising models and managing CI/CD and SLA-driven deployments. His background includes PhD-level research in AI and practical work on scalable anomaly detection and large-scale text analytics, giving him a strong foundation in both novel algorithms and engineering constraints. Comfortable with feature stores, Databricks/Oracle pipelines and runtime/memory optimisation, he pairs technical leadership with stakeholder-facing roadmap planning. An oft-overlooked strength is his track record of coaching data scientists to raise model quality while keeping solutions pragmatic for operational use.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science and Engineering, Electronic and Telecomunication, Bachelor of Science and Engineering, Electronic and Telecomunication at University of MoratuwaHigh School, High School at Richmond CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at La Trobe UniversityMaster’s Degree, Big data, Anomaly detection, Master’s Degree, Big data, Anomaly detection at Monash University
English, Sinhalese
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Github Skills (6)
react-native-maps6
android-gradle-plugin6
android6
react-native6
react-native-fbsdk6
gradle6
Github contributions (5)
tharindurb/PRIME
May 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:26 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
tharindurb/iNNE
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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