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

PythonData EngineeringBig DataSQL QueriesPySparkDatadogGrafanaDockerDataStagePower BIAWSRESTful APIsSnowflakeData AnalysisETLDeep LearningPyTorchMachine LearningGitHub

Languages

Norwegian (Fluent)English (Fluent)

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.

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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

Certified by Microsoft

Academy Accreditation - Generative AI Fundamentals

Issued: Jan 2026

Certified by Databricks

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