Viren Dias
Principal Data Scientist
Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
Summary
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Top SchoolViren Dias is a Principal Data Scientist based in Colombo with eight years of hands-on experience turning large-scale datasets into actionable models and products. He transitioned from a traditional engineering background into software and data science through on-the-job learning, building expertise in CDRs, taxi GPS, satellite imagery, synthetic privacy-preserving data, and production ML workflows. At Calcey he led diverse AI projects from credit scoring and sales forecasting to transformer-based NER and LLM-driven customer service, and previously drove research and infrastructure (Hadoop/Spark) and mentoring at LIRNEasia. He combines statistical rigor and optimisation with practical engineering—shipping models, interactive visualisations, and scalable pipelines. An avid competitive DotA 2 player and puzzle enthusiast, he brings the same strategic thinking and iterative improvement to data problems as he does to gaming.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Engineering Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Engineering Science at University of Oxford
English, Sinhalese
Github Skills (12)
tetris8
maze8
quest7
corona7
openframeworks7
bug-tracker6
replay4
java3
parser3
traffic2
conntrack2
accounting1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
LIRNEasia/d3-visualizations
May 2020 - Aug 2023
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
VirenDias/ti10-fantasy
Oct 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:12 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
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