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Mr. Lasitha Wattaladeniya

Staff Software Engineer at Capital One

BSc Eng. (Hons) (Moratuwa)

10+ years of experience in Software Engineering.
Knowledge of a variety of Software Development stacks.
Extensive experience working in multicultural environments.
Team player with proven leadership qualities.
R&D mindset, without limiting to familiar technology stacks.

Technologies
Java/J2EE, Hibernate, Spring, Spring boot, Spring Cloud, Microservices, Web Services, REST APIs, Apache Solr, Active MQ, OAuth, SSO, JUnit, Mockito, Servlets, JSP, Kafka, Python, R, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Docker, Kubernetes
UI Development
JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Bootstrap, JQuery, AJAX, JSON, Angular, React
Databases
Oracle SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, BigQuery

Keywords: Natural Language Processing | Machine Learning / Deep Learning | Text Normalization | Social Media |

Publications

Theses: BSc

Chiran Chathuranga, Eranga Mapa, Lasitha Wattaladeniya, and Samith Dassanayake, "SELCHI: Travel Profiling", University of Moratuwa, 2014

Journal Papers

Eranga Mapa, Lasitha Wattaladeniya, Chiran Chathuranga, Samith Dassanayake, Nisansa de Silva, Upali Kohomban, and Danaja Maldeniya, "Text Normalization in Social Media by using Spell Correction and Dictionary Based Approach", Systems Learning, vol. 1, pp. 1--6, 2012

Projects

Social Media Text Analysis

PI: Nisansa de Silva

We propose to advance social media text analysis by combining linguistic study, preprocessing, and deep learning models to better capture sentiment, structure, and meaning in informal, large-scale user-generated text.