CV

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Contact Information

Name Jason (Mishike) Carvalho
Professional Title Senior Software Engineer
Email jasonmishi@gmail.com
Phone -
Location , Wattala, Colombo 11300
Website https://jason.lk

Professional Summary

Generalist Software Engineer with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, automation and full stack web-development. Capable of using a combination of technical and people skills to deliver high-quality system solutions. Interested in how things and people work. Broad technical expertise in software design and development, machine learning, and data science. Adoptable and interested in varying technology engineering roles.

Experience

  • 2024 -

    Senior Machine Learning Engineer
    Innodata Inc. (Innodata Lanka)
    Architect and deploy multi-lingual, multi-region AI solutions for major global publishers, ensuring GDPR and ISO 27001 compliance. Develop internal tools for FANG and tech company projects. Drive company transformation through CI/CD, serverless architectures, and DevOps best practices.
    • Introduced the use of CICD and Code Quality tools such as SonarQube to the company.
    • Utilized serverless, containerized architectures to reduce costs in low traffic AI solutions.
    • Architected highly available, multi-region deployed multi-lingual AI solutions for publishing clients.
    • Introduced the company to IaC in line with customer requirements.
    • Helping with efforts to containerize legacy applications
  • 2022 - 2024

    Software Engineer
    20C / FullCtl
    Developed full-stack network automation tools at open source first company specializing in network security. Built and maintained FullCtl peering management and network automation tools. Contributed to maintaining PeeringDB open source project. Led frontend development initially with legacy vanilla JS library and then later migration effort to Vue.js. Did backend work with Python and Django.
    • Introduced the use of Vue.js instead of an inhouse vanilla JS framework.
    • Took over and maintained a project for a internet exchange standards organization that was previously developed by another company when there was no experience within the company for the technology stack used.
    • OpenSource contributions to PeeringDB
    • Overhaul of UI for fullctl
    • Developed and help deploy many documentation and client websites using fully automated CI/CD
  • 2020 - 2022

    Software Engineer
    Innodata Inc. (Innodata Lanka)
    Was hired in some of the company’s first outsourcing software development projects. Initially in a data engineering/web scraping project and then assigned as the only frontend engineer in a project to develop a WYSIWYG custom XML editor for one the largest standards organizations. This product has become a key part of the company’s product line.
    • POC for a serverless containerized web scraping solution using AWS Lambda and Docker.
    • Developed and designed a custom WYSIWYG XML editor with custom formats and plugins for a large standards organization.
  • 2023 - 2024

    IIT, Colombo, Sri Lanka

    Sergeant at Arms
    Toastmasters International
    As seargent at arms, I am responsible for aquiring and setting meeting space, managing and ensuring that all necessary materials are available, and maintaining order during the meeting. I also assist the president in managing the meeting and help to create a positive and productive environment for all members.
    • Club won the Golden Gavel for the year.
    • Club won the President’s Distinguished Club award for the year.

Education

  • 2021 - 2026

    Colombo, Sri Lanka

    BEng
    University of Westminster, (Delivered by Informatics Institute of Technology)
    Software Engineering
    • Artificial Intelligence & Data Science
    • Concurrent Programming
    • Data Structures & Algorithms
    • Formal Methods
    • Cyber Security

Awards

  • 2024
    IIT Excelence Award
    Informatics Institute of Technology

    Awarded for outstanding performance and contribution to the university community.

  • 2024
    Predicta 1.0 - Second Runners Up
    IEEE - University of Peradeniya

    AI hackathon organized by IEEE - University of Peradeniya. Team DataDragons.

  • 2022
    Champion - Parallax 2022
    Rotract Club of Informatics Institute of Technology

    Designathon and hackathon for web UI/UX and web development.

  • 2022
    Haxmas 2022 - First Runners up
    Rotract Club of Informatics Institute of Technology

    Ideathon and hackathon sponsored and hosted by Ascentic, organized by Rotract Club of IIT.

  • 2021
    InfoSchol Scholarship - 2021 Jan
    Informatics Institute of Technology

    One of 70 recipeients for the Scholarship that covers the entire tuition fee for the BEng Software Engineering degree by working at selected companies.

Certificates

Skills

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (Professional): tensorflow, TinyML, Natural Language Processing, pandas, langchain, R, Data Analysis, Python
DevOps, Linux and Cloud (Intermediate): python, AWS, Docker, Git, NixOS, Linux, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, Serverless
Web Development (Professional): JavaScript, Vue.js, TypeScript, CSS, Django, FastAPI, React, Electron, Git, Python, Wordpress

Languages

English : Fluent
Sinhala : Proficient

Interests

Phychology: metacognition, learning theories, memory, stress
Music: guitar, singing, songwriting
Open Source: community, collaboration, transparency, innovation