Thirasara Ariyarathna
Forward Deployed Engineer at NewtonRussell
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolThirasara Ariyarathna is a Forward Deployed Engineer and final-year PhD in Computer Science from UNSW Sydney with a decade of experience building privacy-aware systems and teaching core CS subjects. His research specializes in enhancing user privacy in recommendation systems, particularly for location data, and he brings that applied security focus to product-facing engineering roles. He has academic and industry experience spanning academia, a software internship in NLP at WSO2, and lecturing on algorithms and databases, which gives him a strong foundation in both theory and implementation. Based in Sydney, he is comfortable navigating interdisciplinary problems across cybersecurity, blockchain, NLP, and image processing. Known for turning privacy research into practical solutions, he blends rigorous experimental methods with hands-on system design to produce user-friendly, secure features. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic researcher-engineer who enjoys tackling real-world privacy challenges end-to-end.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering at University of MoratuwaUNSW Sydney
English, Sinhalese, Tamil
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Github Skills (11)
matching5
gps5
gis4
python4
shapefile3
openstreetmap3
map-matching3
astar2
osrm2
offline-maps2
overpass-api2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ThirasaraAriyarathna/WineOntology
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
ThirasaraAriyarathna/AzoneProject
Mar 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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