Education, certifications and research.
I completed a B.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of the People summa cum laude, with a GPA of 3.91 and seven President’s List awards. Before that I earned a First Class B.A. in Business Administration. I hold 13 professional certifications and am preparing a cybersecurity research proposal for an MPhil.
Degrees and research preparation
Current and completed academic work, most recent first.
University of the People, Pasadena, California · completed.
Summa cum laude · GPA 3.91 / 4.0General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Sri Lanka. Research synopsis and topic development on malware classification with machine learning: literature review, static and dynamic feature engineering, model training, and evaluation for robustness and concept drift.
University of the People, Pasadena, California · completed.
High HonorsUniversity of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.
First ClassIHK (German Chamber of Industry and Commerce) · dual apprenticeship.
Academic distinctions
Awards recorded by the awarding institution.
University of the People. Awarded in November 2024, January 2025, September 2025, November 2025, January 2026, March 2026 and August 2026.
B.Sc. Computer Science at University of the People, completed in August 2026 with a GPA of 3.91 out of 4.0. The preceding A.S. was completed with High Honors.
B.A. Business Administration at the University of Hertfordshire. First Class is the highest UK undergraduate classification.
ShieldLink opened issue 5(2) of the International Journal of Research in Computing as the lead article.
Professional certifications
Thirteen certifications in service management, project and agile methods, and security, plus one cloud course completion.
Applied competencies
How I use this training in projects.
Service delivery & ITSM
Project & product methods
Systems & operations
Security & assurance
Peer review and research
Academic activity beyond degree work.
Peer review
Reviewer for the 6th Student Symposium of the Faculty of Computing at General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University in 2025.
In write-ups I keep implemented work, experimental results, prototypes and proposed directions clearly apart, the same way the project pages do.
Research themes
Cybersecurity and detection, database and storage systems, and formal methods where they genuinely strengthen a claim. Some of the work sits closer to philosophy of computation than to engineering.
Research identifiers
Public identifiers are the cleanest route to the authorship record; the publication page mirrors ORCID and links every DOI directly.