Budhitha Perera

Budhitha Perera has extensive work experience in the field of software engineering and data engineering. Budhitha started their career at Dialog Axiata PLC as a Data Engineer from February 2018 to January 2019. Budhitha then joined Axiata Digital Labs as a Data Engineer, where they worked with the Analytics team on various projects involving big data technologies from January 2019 to May 2021.

In 2018, Budhitha also worked as a Software Engineer and Data Engineer at Creative Software, where they had roles such as Senior Software Engineer and Associate Tech Lead. Budhitha was responsible for developing software solutions and working on data engineering projects.

In 2021, Budhitha joined Oneflow as a Software Engineer, specializing in Python. Budhitha also worked at Digital Micro Services as a Data Engineer, where they were involved in a project to migrate an old Oracle system into a big data infrastructure.

Throughout their career, Budhitha has gained valuable experience in various technologies and projects related to big data, including Spark Structured Streaming, location updates, churn prediction models, credit scoring projects, and data anonymization platforms.

Budhitha Perera's education history begins with their enrollment in S.De.S Jayasinghe Central College, Dehiwala from 1997 to 2008. During this time, the specific degree and field of study are not provided.

After completing their primary education, Budhitha attended Thurstan College, Colombo 07 from 2009 to 2011 for their Advanced Level education in the Maths scheme.

From 2014 to 2017, Budhitha pursued a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Computational Physics Special Degree at the University of Colombo, with a focus on Physical Sciences.

In terms of additional certifications, Budhitha obtained the following:

- In February 2020, they received the Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate certification from Microsoft.

- In March 2022, they completed a course called "Python for Beginners" at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa.

- In June 2021, they obtained a certification in "REST APIs with Flask and Python" from Udemy.

- In March 2021, they completed a course titled "AWS Elastic Beanstalk: Deploy a Python(Flask) Web Application" on Coursera.

- In September 2019, Budhitha obtained the following certifications from Coursera: "Building Resilient Streaming Systems on Google Cloud Platform," "Data Engineering, Big Data, and Machine Learning on GCP Specialization," "Serverless Machine Learning with Tensorflow on Google Cloud Platform," "Google Cloud Platform Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals," "Leveraging Unstructured Data with Cloud Dataproc on Google Cloud Platform," and "Serverless Data Analysis with Google BigQuery and Cloud Dataflow."

Overall, Budhitha Perera has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computational Physics Special Degree from the University of Colombo, and they have obtained various certifications, particularly in the areas of data science, machine learning, cloud platforms, and programming.