INDIKA MEEDENIYA - Faculty of Information and Communication ...

INDIKA MEEDENIYA
6A, Rosen St., Blackburn South, VIC 3130, Australia
Mobile: 0430 239 663 E-mail: indikamee@gmail.com
Web: www.ict.swin.edu.au/personal/imeedeniya/
PROFILE
I am an enthusiastic software engineer who has an industrial and academic background on engineering
software-intensive systems. Mathematics and problem solving are of my passion since childhood. I
enjoyed applying engineering and mathematical concepts to real world problems, and once I was awarded
Sri Lankan patent for my contributions with novel sorting algorithms and transliteration engine developed
at early college life. Following the completion of bachelor’s degree in electronics, I started my software
engineering career from capital markets industry, where I worked as a senior C++ developer and technical
lead in several US, European brokerage/stock exchange projects including complete trading system
development for AMEX. I gained experience on software development, design-time quality prediction and
modelling, documentation and testing procedures in the development of dependable software systems.
Following my enthusiasm on the field of software engineering, I specialised on software architecture,
software quality modelling, machine learning and optimisation towards a PhD at Swinburne University
of Technology. The thesis makes advancements in the field of software engineering by introducing a
new method for architecture modelling and optimisation on the face of uncertainty at design time. I am
currently looking for a software engineering role, and my passion, technical background and research
training will allow me to contribute positively to a high impact team.
EDUCATION
2008 – Current PhD, Software Engineering
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Thesis: Architecture optimisation of software-intensive systems under uncertainty.
Key Research Areas:
• software engineering
• software architecture
• modelling and analysis of software dependability
• verification and validation, temporal logic
• uncertainty analysis, robust architecture design
• multi-objective optimisation
Research profile:
http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/personal/imeedeniya/Research.htm
2001 – 2005 B.Sc Engineering (Hons) – First Class
University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering
2000 General Certificate of Education (Advanced Level)
Dharmaraja College, Kandy, Sri Lanka
Country Rank 3 out of 180,000 candidates with three A’s mathematics stream.
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SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE
2005 – 2007 Software Engineer at Millennium IT (Pvt) Ltd.
2007 – 2008 Tech Lead at Millennium IT (Pvt) Ltd. ( www.millenniumit.com )
MillenniumIT is a member of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) Group and a premier technology solutions
provider serving the global capital markets industry. MillenniumIT systems are deployed at the AMEX,
LSE, ICAP, Perimeter Financial Corp.
Key Responsibilities:
• Software development in C++ (Linux / gcc), peer code review.
• Multi-threaded process design, implementation, performance analysis (quantify, purify)
and documentation.
• Component and integration testing
• Production live-support in AMEX project (troubleshooting and live resolution)
• Relational database design and management (Oracle, MySQL, NORA)
• Worked as a System Architecture Designer / Developer since the initial design phase of
innovative capital trading system for stock broker firms highly focused on hardware
threshold performance and reliability. Took part in architecture design activities in
system level modelling, functionality distribution and designing for performance and
reliability targets.
• Designer and Primary Developer of a key back-end software component (Business
Processing Engine - BPE). Have good understanding on market data, protocols and
feed gateways. (C++ on Linux)
• Lead a development team of eight and worked in collaboration with project managers,
integration and production testing teams in timely achieving project targets as well as
in production live support.
• Worked in two R&D projects at MillenniumIT for algorithmic trading platform
development for United States stock market, and FPGA implementation of high
performance order routers.
Achievements:
• Quickly obtained the technical knowledge and adapted to the environment, where I was
assigned with the responsibility of four production software components (2005-2007
AMEX project).
• Re-designed and implemented the high-performance message router optimising for
8-core processor, availed the product to surpass the performance record in the industry
(1 million orders per second).
• Rewarded with promotions to Senior Software Engineer and then to Tech Lead (Apr
2007).
• The new design of BPE exhibited remarkable performance, and provided with a
competitive advantage to the product in the US capital markets industry. I was highly
recognised by the CTO and the product vice president (one referee in the CV).
• My encouragement to use white-box testing within development teams significantly
contributed to the product stability reduced the integration testing time.
2009 – 2011 Software Engineer (part-time), Swinburne University of Technology, Faculty of ICT
Contributed as a Developer in several in-house projects including the following.
• Prerequisite Check: A software system developed for the use of faculty administration
and students. (Java, JavaScript and MySQL).
• PSPWizard: A java based tool for temporal property specification to be used in the safety
and mission critical software development. (Java, perl)
• ArcheOpterix tool: A tooling framework for quality evaluation and optimisation of
software architectures. (Java, perl)
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ACADEMIC AND OTHER EXPERIENCE
2012 (May-Jun) Visiting Researcher, University of Kaiserslauthern, Germany
Software Engineering: Analysis of QUantitative Aspects (AQUA) research group of Prof. Lars Grunske.
2011 – Current Teaching Assistant, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Database analysis and design (Undergraduate)
2008 – 2012 PhD Candidate, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Worked on safe and reliable software design for automotive systems, where the research was funded by
AutoCRC – Australia. Conducted research and possess expertise in reliability, safety and performance
analysis of complex software systems, modelling of software/electronic co-functionalities and stochastic
optimisation algorithms.
Achievements:
• A number of original research contributions published in top international venues.
• Successful research collaborations with the industry (Volvo-Sweden) and several European research
groups
2003 (Feb-Aug) Trainee Engineer, MTN Networks Pvt Ltd. ( www.dialogtelekom.com )
MTN Networks (now Dialog Telekom ) is a leading telecommunications service provider in Sri Lanka.
Achievements:
• Designed and developed a sophisticated software application called Dialog Net for
processing,storing and handling of important GSM Network data ( Visual basic, MS
Access, MySQL, front end - Macromedia Flash )
• Proposed and implemented the country’s first SMS system with local languages.
Presented in public media and recognised by the company CEO.
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles:
• Indika Meedeniya, Aldeida Aleti and Lars Grunske, “Robust Reliability Optimization of Software
Architectures with Probabilistic Quality Evaluation Models”. Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) – In
press.
• Indika Meedeniya, Barbora Bühnová, Aldeida Aleti, and Lars Grunske.“Reliability-Driven Deployment
Optimization for Embedded Systems”. Journal of Systems and Software (JSS),Volume 84, Issue 5, May
2011, Pages 835-846, 2010.
Conferences and Workshops:
• Indika Meedeniya, Irene Moser, Aldeida Aleti and Lars Grunske. “Software Architecture Evaluation
under Uncertainty”. In International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures, (QoSA
2011). Boulder, CO, USA, June 20-24 2011, Pages 85-94. ACM, 2011.
ACM Distinguished Paper Award
• Aldeida Aleti and Indika Meedeniya. “Component Deployment Optimisation with Bayesian Learning”.
In International ACM Sigsoft Symposium on Component Based Software Engineering, (CBSE 2011).
Boulder, CO, USA, June 20-24 2011, Pages 11-20, ACM. 2011.
• Markus Lumpe, Indika Meedeniya and Lars Grunske “PSPWizard: machine-assisted definition
of temporal logical properties with specification patterns”. In ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the
Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2011). Szeged, Hungary, September 5-9 2011. Pages
468-471. ACM, 2011.
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• Indika Meedeniya and Lars Grunske.“An efficient method for architecture-based reliability evaluation
for evolving systems with changing parameters”. In International Symposium on Software Reliability
Engineering, (ISSRE 2010), San Jose, CA, USA, November 1-4, 2010.
• Indika Meedeniya, Barbora Bühnová, Aldeida Aleti, and Lars Grunske.“Architecture-driven reliability
and energy optimization for complex embedded systems”. In International Conference on the Quality of
Software Architectures, (QoSA 2010), Prague, Czech Republic, June 23 - 25, 2010, volume 6093 of
LNCS, pages 5267. Springer, 2010.
• Aldeida Aleti, Lars Grunske, Indika Meedeniya, and Irene Moser, “Let the ants deploy your software -
A hybrid ACO/GA based deployment optimisation strategy”, In IEEE/ACM International Conference on
Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2009), Auckland, New Zealand, November 16-20, 2009. IEEE
Computer Society 2009.
• Indika Meedeniya, Aldeida Aleti, Iman Avazpour and Ayman Amin, “Robust ArcheOpterix:
Architecture Optimization of Embedded Systems under Uncertainty”. In ICSE 2012 Workshop on Software
Engineering for Embedded Systems (SEES 2012), Zurich, Switzerland, June 2-9, 2012. – In press
• Indika Meedeniya,“An incremental methodology for quantitative software architecture evaluation with
probabilistic models”, In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2010
Doctoral Symposium)- Volume 2, Cape Town, South Africa, 1-8 May 2010. ACM 2010.
• Indika Meedeniya, Aldeida Aleti, and Barbora Zimmerová, “Redundancy Allocation in Automotive
Systems using Multi-objective Optimisation”, In Symposium on Automotive/Avionics Systems
Engineering (SAASE 2009), San Diego, CA, USA, October 13-16 2009.
• Aldeida Aleti, Stefan Björnander, Lars Grunske, and Indika Meedeniya, “ArcheOpterix: An
extendable tool for architecture optimization of AADL models”. In ICSE 2009 Workshop on Model-Based
Methodologies for Pervasive and Embedded Software (MOMPES 2009), May 16, 2009, Vancouver,
Canada. IEEE Computer Society 2009.
Papers under Revision:
• Indika Meedeniya, Irene Moser, Aldeida Aleti and Lars Grunske, Evaluating Probabilistic Models
under Uncertainty. Journal of Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM) –In Review.
• Aldeida Aleti, Barbora Bühnová, Anne Koziolek, Lars Grunske, and Indika Meedeniya, “A Systematic
Survey on Software Architecture Optimization Methods”. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
(TSE) – In Review
Scientific Software:
• ArcheOpterix: An extendable tooling framework for Architecture Optimisation. ArcheOpterix is
developed in Java and provides tool support for modelling constrained architecture optimisation
problems, capability to implement optimisation algorithms that deal with combinatorial multi-objective
problems, learning techniques for online parameter control of the optimisation algorithms and
extensible probabilistic quality evaluation models for architecture-based quality evaluation.
• PSPWizard: machine-assisted definition of temporal logical properties with specification patterns.
This is a java based tool for temporal property specification to be used in the safety and mission
critical software development. The tool translates structured English grammar into temporal
specification languages such as CTL or MTL and can be integrated with model checking tools
(PRISM).
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TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Sound programming skills in C/ C++ and Java. Object oriented design, debugging and performance
tuning in C/C++. Regularly used STL and design patterns ( gcc, Linux , K-develop).
• Experience in version control systems CVS, SVN and Scripting languages Perl, Bash and Ms-DOS
scripts. Build automation with GNU Makefiles, ANT on both Linux and Windows platforms.
• Experience in designing multi-threaded programs focusing on higher reliability, stability, fault
tolerance and optimal usage of hardware resources. Sound experience in using Rational Purify,
Quantify tools for code optimisation.
• Proficient in learning and optimisation algorithms (NSGA-II, ACO, SA)
RESEARCH SKILLS
• Excellent organisational and communication skills through managing my own research, collaborative
research projects and conference organisations, peer review and publications.
• Strong matehmatical and programming skills with a demonstrated ability to conduct independant
research.
• Research group management and supervision skills developed through working with my advisor
in supervising master students, selecting prospective candidates and developing a group research
theme.
HONOURS AND AWARDS
• Sri Lanka patent (13543) for novel sorting algorithms and transilateration scheme introduced for
phonetic languages (2003).
• Inventor of first SMS system in Sri Lanka with local language support (2003).
• AutoCRC scholarship and Swinburne university research scholarship for the PhD candidature (2008
- 2012)
• Awarded MillenniumIT scholarship for outstanding academic performance in the Department
Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering (2003 - 2005).
• ACM SIGSOFT CAPS award (twice) to present a papers at ICSE 2010 and ICSE 2012.
• ACM Distinguished paper award for the paper presented at QoSA 2011.
• 3rd Best results in the country and the best results in the central province in grade 12 high school
exam (GCE A/L) in mathematics stream (2000).
• Entitled for DEAN’S LIST three times during undergraduate studies on outstanding academic
performance.
• Received the award of the best trainee in the carrier-training program (Computer programmer) held
by the Lanka Data Bank. (1998)
OTHER ACTIVITIES AND TRAINING
• Member of the University of Moratuwa Karate Team (7th Kyu).
• Management Training Program conducted by WildDrift – 2007
• Leadership Training Program by Dr. Anura Ekanayake – 2008
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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
• Society of Automotive Engineers - Australia - Student Member
• IEEE Computer Society - Student Member
• ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering - Student Member
• The Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Automotive Technology (AutoCRC) - Member
REFERENCES
Professor John Grundy
Head of Academic Group, Computer Science & Software Engineering,
Faculty of Information & Communication Technologies,
Swinburne University of Technology,
Hawthron, VIC 3122, Australia
Phone: +61 392 148 731
Fax: +61 392 140 823
Email: jgrundy@swin.edu.au
http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/ictstaff/jgrundy
Dr.rer.nat. Lars Grunske
Software Engineering: Analysis of Quantitative Aspects (AQUA),
University of Kaiserslautern
PO Box 3049, 67653 Kaiserslautern,Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 631 205 3958
Fax: +49 (0) 631 205 3420
Email: grunske@informatik.uni-kl.de
http://aqua.informatik.uni-kl.de/staff/grunske/
Mr. Prabath Fernando
Vice President - SOR
Millnnium IT Software Ltd.,
1, Millennium Drive,
Malabe, Sri Lanka
Phone: +94 112 416 000
Mobile: +94 777 485 783
Email: prbath@millenniumit.com
http://millenniumit.com
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