Francois Fernando

Francois Fernando has over 14 years of work experience in the software engineering field. In 2021, they began working as a Senior Data/Machine Learning Engineer at Evergen. Prior to this, they were a Senior Data Engineer at IAG from 2017-2021 and a Senior Data Engineer at Ambiata, a fully owned subsidiary of IAG, from 2017-2021. From 2016-2017, they worked as a Data Engineer at The Search Party and as a Java Developer at nbn™ Australia from 2015-2016. Francois also held a Java Developer contract position at the NSW Office of Water from 2014-2015 and a Senior Software Engineer position at Soapbox365 from 2013-2014. In 2012, they held a Java Developer contract position at the NSW Police Force and a Senior Software Engineer position at Paradigm One. Pty Ltd from 2011-2012. Francois began their career as a Senior Software Engineer at Thomson Reuters Legal & Regulatory in 2007.

Francois Fernando has a Bachelor in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, obtained between 1994 and 1999. Francois also holds various certifications, such as Applied Concurrency in Go from LinkedIn (obtained in February 2022), Strategic Thinking from LinkedIn (obtained in May 2019), Exploring & Preparing your Data with BigQuery from Coursera Course Certificates (obtained in August 2018), The Analytics Edge by MITx from edX (obtained in July 2016), Programming Languages by University of Washington from Coursera Verified Certificates (obtained in December 2014), Introduction to Data Science by University of Washington from Coursera (obtained in September 2014), Functional Programming Principles in Scala by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne from Coursera Verified Certificates (obtained in July 2014), and Machine Learning by Stanford University from Coursera (obtained in June 2014). Francois is also a Member of Institute of Engineers & Technologists, obtained in January 2002.