
Ire R
Senior Data Engineer Consultant Experienced from Norwegian Industry | Databricks & Microsoft Certified Professional
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
6+ years in the Norwegian Top-tier Data Industry | 👩💻4 years as a Data Engineer & 2 years as a Data Scientist; building scalable cloud data platforms across Azure, AWS, and Snowflake, delivering end-to-end analytics solutions within the industries: energy, logistics, and telecom | 👩🎓Holds a strong academic background, including 14 international research publications.
Work experience
Data Engineer
DEME Group
May 2025 - Dec 2025
8 months
Oslo, Norway
[____PS: Originally employed at Havfram that got acquired by DEME in April 2025, rebranded, and integrated to DEME management lines____] Data Engineer to the central Data Engineering team in Data Analytics Office (DAO) at HQ (Antwerp), working remotely (Visits to work from HQ quaterly) from DEME Offshore Norway (DONO), Oslo, Norway. * Responsible for data integrations primarily related to Finance department and secondarily to other internal, external data needs; via Azure Synapse, Azure SQL DBs & Azure Databricks, Azure Analysis Service.
Data Engineer
Havfram
Dec 2024 - May 2025
6 months
Oslo, Norway
[__PS: Acquired by DEME in April 2025 & Rebranded to DEME Offshore Norway__] Sole & 1st Data Engineer to the IT Dept., Havfram Management As, Oslo, Norway. (Norwegian Offshore Wind Energy Company) * Design & Lead establishing new Data Analytics Platform based on Azure Databricks Medallion Architecture * FP&A tool Adaptive Planning, Ignite Procurement tool integration to ERP via existed AWS DWH using REST APIs, AWS Glue, Snowflake
Senior Data Scientist
Posten Bring AS
Feb 2023 - Dec 2024
1 year 11 months
Oslo, Norway
Senior Data Scientist to the Data Science Dept., Posten Bring As, Oslo, Norway. (The norwegian state-owned primary logistics company across all Nordics) * Data Engineering & Data Analysis tasks using Az Synapse Studio, Az Databricks in Python and PySpark, SQL * Real-time DATEX GML data streaming from Statens Vegvesen REST APIs via PySpark, Python, Docker, AKS * Production level Deep Learning models’ training migration from AKS to Az Databricks workflows including planning & leading the work * Time-series based supervised DL Model tuning, maintenance with PyTorch & MLOps with MLflow for the main ML project of the company: ETA for billions of shipment across multiple Nordics countries * Azure AutoML application for a time-series forecasting problem with PySDK v2 * Unstructured data (SharePoint, Az DevOps wikis, GitHub READMEs) ingestion with unified MS Graph REST API & other REST APIs via Az Databricks for a company LLM project * Participation in technical interview rounds in hiring processes for a team member and 4 summer interns
Full-Stack Data Operation Engineer
ice Norge
Mar 2021 - Mar 2023
2 years 1 month
Oslo, Norway
Sole & 1st Full-Stack Data Operation Engineer (Data Engineering + DataOps) to the Analytics Platform team at Ice Communication AS, Oslo, Norway. (Norway's 3rd Largest Mobile Operator) [__Later aquired by Lyse__] * Develop ETL & handle DWH operations of new mobile subscription product NiceMobil launch * Implementing unsupervised ML solution on time-series data for anomaly detection in multi-aspects of DWH daily operations during first 6 months: detecting abnormal behavior of data vaults, data marts, backups, stored procedure, ETL jobs, Tableau extracts using KNN & Isolation Forest in PyCaret * Improving automation in recurring tasks & notifications to Microsoft Teams: ETL status, Broken views, Server low space, Server unreachability, Backup failure, Skewed tables, Data replication status * ETL creation, debugging, scheduling, Java tool for template SQL generation to fasten ETL tasks * MLOps: Linux server mgt, Jupyter user workspace facilitation inside Docker with Conda, Python, Bash, MLFlow: experiments, model training, logging, registering, prediction
Doctoral Researcher
Simula Research Laboratory
Sep 2019 - Mar 2021
1 year 7 months
Oslo, Norway
PhD Researcher to the Data-driven Software Engineering dept, at Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway. (Norwegian state-owned research laboratory) [__Employed with a 3-year work permit to Simula & affiliated to University of Oslo (UiO) for the purpose of course work & degree-granting authority__] **Research Title: Source Code Vulnerability Detection using Machine Learning and NLP.** * One-hot encoding, Gensim Word2Vec embedding & a novel compact encoding using srcML to dimensionality reduction on function bodies & supervised vulnerability prediction using BiLSTM, CNN & Transformer * CML with GitLab CI, DVC pipeline, SLURM job executions in HPC cluster and Tensorboard * PDF text analysis on scientific paper collection for a systemic literature review using OCRmyPDF, NLTK and SpaCy libraries * Completed courses at UiO: MNSES910-Science, Ethics and Society, IN405-Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning ✅
Graduate Research And Teaching Assistant
University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka
Jun 2017 - May 2019
2 years
Hatton, Sri Lanka
To the Dept of Computer Science and Eng., University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. (During the Master of Philosophy (MPhil) 2-year full-time research.)
Computer Science Instructor
University of Colombo School of Computing Sri Lanka
Feb 2017 - May 2017
4 months
Hatton, Sri Lanka
Teaching course materials, practicals, guiding, and assignment preparations to Computer Science & Software Engineering undergraduate students.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
University of Colombo School of Computing Sri Lanka
Aug 2015 - Jan 2016
6 months
Hatton, Sri Lanka
1. XBee ZB Based Algorithm for SLAM Problem of Indoor Mobile Robots (Experimental Project, Embedded Systems Research Group, UCSC) * An indoor localization and tracking problem using a wireless network of XBee ZB devices configured with XCTU and Arduino programming 2. Social Life Networks for Farmers (SLN4F) (Intern Research Project, Social Life Networks Research Group, UCSC) * Pests and disease data management using SQL and SPARQL, UI design and web development in MVC architecture
Education
Universitetet i Oslo (UiO) | University of Oslo
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Informatics
2019 - 2021
1 year 7 months
(Premature voluntary termination) Research Title: Source Code Vulnerability Detection using Machine Learning and NLP * One-hot encoding, Gensim Word2Vec embedding & a novel compact encoding using srcML to dimensionality reduction on function bodies & supervised vulnerability prediction using BiLSTM, CNN & Transformer * CML with GitLab CI, DVC pipeline, SLURM job executions in HPC cluster and Tensorboard * PDF text analysis on scientific paper collection for a systemic literature review using OCRmyPDF, NLTK and SpaCy libraries * Completed courses: MNSES910-Science, Ethics and Society, IN405-Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning ✅
University of Alberta
Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Summer School 2019
2019 - 2019
2 months
Organised and scholarship granted to attend by Alberta Machine Learning Institute (Amii) and Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).
University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka
Master of Philosophy - MPhil, Computer Science and Engineering
2017 - 2019
1 year 11 months
Grade: Very Good
Research Thesis Title: Traceability Management in a DevOps Environment with Continuous Integration. * Software artefact data extraction and data management using Stanford CoreNLP, JSON, XML parsers, ANTLR, WordNet and Neo4j. * Traceability establishment using string manipulation, Jaro-Winkler and Levenshtein algorithms * Traceability prioritisation, validation using statistical analysis and centrality measures in graph theory * Artefact change detection, change impact analysis and change propagation using Dijkstra graph traversal * Automated CI/ CD pipeline execution with Jenkins build and Docker deployment * Notification system integrated with Trello API and multi-user accessibility by using AjaxSwing
University of Colombo School of Computing Sri Lanka
Bachelor of Science Honors, Software Engineering
2013 - 2017
4 years
Grade: 3.5/4.0 GPA (1st Class)
4th Year Research Title: Transaction Verification Model for Peer-to-Peer Service-Oriented Digital Currency Transactions Based on the Foundation of Blockchain Architecture.
Visakha Vidyalaya Sri Lanka
G.C.E. A/L and G.C.E. O/L
2003 - 2011
8 years 8 months
Grade: 2011 G.C.E. A/L - National 3rd Rank | 2008 G.C.E. O/L - 8 A's,1 B
2011 G.C.E. Advanced Level - National 3rd Rank, [Subjects: Combined Mathematics (A), Physics (B), ICT (B)]. 2008 G.C.E. Ordinary Level - 8 A's, 1 B.
Licenses & certifications
DP-100: Azure Data Scientist Associate
Issued: Jan 2026
Academy Accreditation - Generative AI Fundamentals
Issued: Jan 2026