Vikum Wijesinghe
Senior Software Engineer at WorldQuant
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolVikum Wijesinghe is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of experience building data-driven, cloud-native systems using Python, C++, Airflow, Docker and Kubernetes. He has progressed through multiple engineering and technical lead roles at the London Stock Exchange Group and is currently applying his skills at WorldQuant, blending low-latency and data-processing expertise. Comfortable in Linux-heavy environments and proficient with Pandas/Numpy, he focuses on scalable microservices and orchestration for production data workflows. A data science enthusiast by background, he also navigated a high-profile offer from Meta that was later rescinded, illustrating resilience and demand for his skillset. Trained as an electronics and telecommunication engineer with first-class honours, he brings hardware-aware thinking to software system design.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Eng. (Hons), Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, First Class Honours, BSc Eng. (Hons), Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, First Class Honours at University of Moratuwa
English, Sinhalese
Github Skills (1)
readiness1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vikumsw/Algorithms_For_Problem_Solving
Feb 2019 - Nov 2021
This Repository Contains Solutions for Few Fun Programming Problems
Contributions:289 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
vikumsw/KaggleNotebooks
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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