Vilanya Ratnayake

Experience

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  Deakin University

  Feb 2021 - Jun 2021

  SEBE Peer Mentor

  - Mentored students getting started at Deakin over a period of 5 weeks- Collaborated with another mentor to facilitate weekly meetings with the mentees

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  Telstra

  Nov 2021 - Feb 2022

  Summer Intern

  - Developed an application that allows meetings and presentations to be managed, I.e. the next presenter, topic. Also, kept it amiable by adding an appreciation feature to send points to previous presenters. - Worked in a small team on feature flagging and cucumber testing.

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  Deakin University

  Aug 2022 - Feb 2023

  - Conducting research on Energy and IoT in order to write up an academic review on the area of Energy Efficiency and how IoT comes into action. - Conducted workshops for middle-school and high-school girls in the Go Girls! Go for IT! event.- Prepared and hosted the workshops on behalf of the VIC ICT for Women and Deakin University as the only robotics workshops in the entire event and the only workshops to be conducted by an undergraduate student.

  • Research Intern

    Aug 2022 - Feb 2023

  • Casual Academic

    Aug 2022 - Sept 2022
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  Telstra

  Feb 2023 - now

  • Software Engineer

    Apr 2024 - now

  • Software Engineering Specialist

    Feb 2023 - Mar 2024