Boniface Yogendran
Project Leader at Standards Council of Canada (SCC)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolBoniface Yogendran is a project leader and defence scientist based in Ottawa with 11 years of hands-on experience applying AI/ML and quantum technologies across government, industry, and military contexts. He blends a military engineering background and operational leadership with commercial quantum software experience at Zapata and current contributions to standards and open compute initiatives. Trained with an MSc in Data Science (First Class) from the University of Edinburgh and a B.Eng. in Biological/Biosystems Engineering, he translates complex research into practical, deployable systems and policy advice. His career includes roles from systems engineering at BlackBerry to leading data and technology teams in the Canadian Armed Forces, and he runs algorithmic trading and other coding projects in his spare time. Known for moving between research, operations, and governance, he brings rare domain depth in quantum-inflected AI for defence and standards work.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Data Science, First class honours, Master of Science - MS, Data Science, First class honours at The University of EdinburghBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Biological/Biosystems Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Biological/Biosystems Engineering at University of Guelph
English, Tamil, Sinhalese, French, Portuguese
Github Skills (12)
product-development10
quantum-computing8
meta8
midi7
music6
python4
amazon-web-services4
qiskit3
amazon3
machine-learning1
clustering1
trading1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Boniface316/kessler
Feb 2025 - Sep 2025
A machine learning library for spacecraft collision avoidance
Contributions:73 PRs, 41 pushes, 71 branches in 7 months
Boniface316/bigdata_vqa
Feb 2024 - Jun 2024
codes for the VQA paper
Contributions:64 PRs, 64 pushes, 58 branches in 4 months
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