I am a seasoned software engineer with over 10 years of experience in designing and leading innovative software solutions. Currently, I work as a Senior Software Engineer at HarlemNext, specializing in PHP, Symfony, Laravel, Node.js, and Google Cloud.
Previously, I served as a Senior Tech Lead at OrangeHRM, leading a team of 10 developers to enhance an enterprise product used by over 5 million users worldwide. With a strong background in object-oriented programming, RESTful APIs, and modern development practices, I am passionate about delivering impactful, scalable solutions.
Keywords: Natural Language Processing | Ontologies | Sinhala |
Conference Papers
Indeewari Wijesiri, Malaka Gallage, Buddhika Gunathilaka, Madhuranga Lakjeewa, Daya Wimalasuriya, Gihan Dias, Rohini Paranavithana, and Nisansa de Silva, "Building a WordNet for Sinhala", in Proceedings of the Seventh Global WordNet Conference, January. 2014, pp. 100--108.
PI: Nisansa de Silva
We propose to advance natural language processing for low-resource settings by leveraging data augmentation, transfer learning, and model adaptation techniques to overcome the scarcity of annotated data and linguistic resources.
PI: Nisansa de Silva
We propose to build and analyze Sinhala language resources, datasets, and models to strengthen NLP research for this low-resource language, while connecting it to English and Tamil through bilingual lexicons, embeddings, and cross-lingual methods.