vihanga@ingolstadt: ~/profile
$ whoami --role digital-transformation

Vihanga
Rajasekara_

B.Sc. Digital Technology & Management · OTH Amberg-Weiden

Bridging digital transformation and industrial environments — from AutoStore shop floors to Power BI dashboards, SAP MM data structures, and award-winning international product work.

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About.

// origin → trajectory
Vihanga Rajasekara, portrait
● Ingolstadt2026

Originally from Sri Lanka, based in Germany since 2022. I split my week between operating an AutoStore robotic warehouse at SCA Logistik, building OEE dashboards and ETL pipelines at university, and chasing Werkstudent roles in digital transformation consulting.

B.Sc. wraps in August 2027 — a Master's runs through 2029. Staying in Germany, staying in this field.

What I'm most interested in: the seam between operational technology and information systems — where shop-floor data meets ERP, where messy reality meets clean schemas. I've spent enough time on the warehouse floor to know where the friction lives.

Outside of work and study: a foundation in martial arts and structured leadership — trained in Taekwondo, served as Cadet Corporal in the Police Cadet Corps at Ananda College, where I led a squad of junior cadets. Both shaped how I approach long projects today. Still training, now bodyweight calisthenics at home. Off the mat: cinema, content creation, and building things.

3.5
Years in Germany
125
ECTS Completed
3
Erasmus+ Programmes
1
Jury Award · Helsinki
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Experience.

// log --reverse
2022 — Present

Logistics Associate · AutoStore Operations

SCA Logistik & Fulfillment GmbH · Reichertshofen

Operating and monitoring an AutoStore robotic Automated Storage and Retrieval System (AS/RS); managing goods-to-person workflows at high-throughput induction and picking ports. Self-trained on AutoStore system logic and HMI within the first weeks; now handle independent troubleshooting of hardware and port-controller faults.

Daily work bridges OT and IT: thousands of mobile-scanner transactions flowing between Zebra hardware and the WMS, with constant identification and escalation of inventory discrepancies — practical exposure to the same problems SAP MM solves (over-delivery tolerance logic analogous to M7022, goods-receipt reconciliation).

AutoStore AS/RSWMS IntegrationIT/OTMobile Scanning · ZebraSAP MM Concepts
2019 — 2021

Junior Executive · Administration

Singer Sri Lanka PLC · Kadawatha

Promoted from Administrative Assistant after analyzing and optimizing internal workflows. First point of contact for office IT, maintaining infrastructure availability and resolving software/hardware issues. Produced 2D and 3D AutoCAD prototypes supporting the home-appliance product development team.

Process OptimizationIT SupportAutoCAD 2D/3D
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Affiliations.

// networks
Education
Industry
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Education.

// credentials
2023 — 2027 (expected)

B.Sc. Digital Technology & Management

OTH Amberg-Weiden, Germany
Specialization: Digital Processes & Applications. 125 ECTS completed. Top grades in Sensors for Smart Systems (1.0), Research Methods (1.3), and Financial Accounting (1.7). Master's degree planned to follow through 2029.
2022 (awarded 2025)

Diploma in Management & Business Technology

IMBS Green Campus · Sri Lanka
Operations, Finance, Strategic Management, Quantitative Methods.
UK-Endorsed · ABE
2021

Foundations of ICT

University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
Object-oriented programming, database management systems, web application development, introduction to computer systems.
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Selected projects.

// build log
2026 · Erasmus+ BIP · Helsinki

Meripäivät 2026

"Eco. Mindful. Meet your idol."
HTMLCSSJavaScript6 LanguagesGitHub PagesGenerative AI

A multilingual web application built from scratch for Kotka Maritime Festival 2026 — the centrepiece of a scenario-storytelling project on sustainable tourism, developed with Visit Kotka-Hamina and Haaga-Helia University. Six languages with instant switching, WhatsApp-style chat narrative anchored by Aino (a fictional 10-year-old writing from Kotka in 2060), an interactive festival map, and a peer-to-peer rewards system tied to named local partners.

I led app concept and frontend, and ran the live demo in the final 10-minute jury pitch — switching languages in real time on a deployed URL. Our team won the Jury Award on 16 May 2026.

View the live app
2025 · Capstone (in development)

SmartInbound

Shop-floor-to-ERP simulation
Python · pandasSQLitePower BI

A simulation of how shop-floor scanner data could flow into an ERP system. Python and pandas process batch CSVs of warehouse scan events into a normalized SQL schema, with a middleware layer that validates goods receipts against purchase orders.

More of a learning exercise than a production system — a hands-on way to study IT/OT integration against the real friction I see every day at SCA.

2025 · Manufacturing Analytics

OEE Dashboard

Real-time Smart Factory KPI monitoring
Power BIDAXStar SchemaETL

Power BI dashboard for real-time analysis of production KPIs in a simulated Smart Factory environment. Star-schema data model with ETL pipelines integrating heterogeneous production sources; fact tables (production events) separated from dimensions (time, machine, product).

Complex DAX logic for Availability, Performance, and Quality calculations. Interactive design with slicers, Pareto charts, and drill-down across 60 days of simulated data — surfacing downtime patterns and machine bottlenecks for maintenance prioritization.

2025 · Research (Co-author)

BI Framework for SMEs

Analytics & AI for data-driven process optimization
Mixed MethodsThematic AnalysisDescriptive Statistics

Mixed-methods research on practical implementation of AI-supported process optimization in SMEs — co-authoring a paper titled "Analytics & AI: A Feasible BI Framework for Data-Driven Process Optimization in SMEs."

Qualitative analysis of Industrie 4.0 implementations at Siemens and Bosch to identify success factors and adoption barriers; quantitative analysis of manufacturing process data using descriptive statistics on public Kaggle datasets.

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International programmes.

// mobility
May 2026 · Erasmus+

Krea Spring School — Inspirational Storytelling

Haaga-Helia University · Helsinki, Finland

Blended Intensive Programme on sustainable tourism for Visit Kotka-Hamina and the Kotka Maritime Festival. Team 1, multicultural cohort from Germany, Portugal, Belgium, Estonia and beyond. Won the Jury Award for our scenario-storytelling project.

February 2026 · Erasmus+

Making Killer Webshops

Thomas More University · Antwerp, Belgium

E-commerce BIP with six international partner universities — built a real WordPress webshop for Zelfbakker.be. Ran a WCAG 2.1 accessibility audit against the EU legal framework and produced UX optimization recommendations.

September 2024 · Erasmus+

Lowering Barriers in Retail

Thomas More University · Antwerp, Belgium

Design-thinking BIP in a multicultural team developing entrepreneurial retail solutions for people with low literacy. Multi-stakeholder co-creation, collaborative autonomous learning, storytelling, and pitching.

2024 · Certificate

Digital Business & Information Systems

OTH Regensburg · via vhb

Focus areas: Digital Transformation, Supply Chain Management, CRM, Digital Product Design. Supplementary academic credential complementing the OTH Amberg-Weiden specialization.