• Colombo District, Sri Lanka
  • Management
  • Member Since, December 2, 2024
  • Job Title Marketing Specialist
  • Gender  Male
  • Core Competencies

Skills

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Office Management & Coordination

Education

  • Management Development Programme, Leadership development 2023 - 2024

    Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM)

  • University of Moratuwa 2014 - 2016

    M.Sc in Computer Science in Data Science, Engineering and Analytics, Data Science, Engineering and Analytics

  • University of Moratuwa 2008 - 2012

    B.Sc in IT (Hons)

  • Hindu College Colombo-04 - 2007

    A/L

    Physics, Chemistry and Combined Mathematics

  • Databricks

    Academy Accreditation - Databricks Fundamentals

  • Databricks

    Academy Accreditation - Generative AI Fundamentals

  • Stanford University

    Statistical Learning

  • DataCamp

    Deep Learning in Python

  • Microsoft

    Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

  • McKinsey & Company

    Communicating for Impact

  • McKinsey & Company

    Mastering Challenging Conversations

  • McKinsey & Company

    Problem Solving

  • McKinsey & Company

    Team Management

  • McKinsey Management Program McKinsey & Company

    McKinsey Management Program

Experience

  • John Keells Holdings PLC 2014 - Present

    Senior Manager - Data Science

    Kiru has been involved in creating and improving advanced analytics programs for clients in the retail domain. He has served as faculty at the Octave Data & Advanced Analytics Academy, training 8 batches so far. Over 400 Octave staff and client-side staff have benefited from his training. He is a member of the Data and Tech Leadership Forum, where he and his team introduce emerging technologies to the Octave technology stack. He leads the data science team, which consists of 15+ data scientists, senior data scientists, and lead data scientists, driving 22+ use cases across various departments, including Supply Chain, Commercial, Marketing, Operations, and Fresh Produce. Kiru has been responsible for designing advanced analytics solutions and validating solutions designed by the data scientists

  • John Keells Holdings PLC 2022 - 2024

    Manager - Data Science

    He serves as a member of the management committee. In this role, he creates and executes strategic plans related to people, technology, and presence. He also tailors existing processes to create a better environment for delivering high-quality work. Kiru anchors 15+ use-cases across two different domains, namely retail and banking. He leads a team of 25+ data scientists, including lead data scientists, senior data scientists, data scientists, and associate data scientists. He mentors analytics resources from different practices such as data engineering, platform engineering, and delivery.

  • Borough Markets 2021 - 2022

    Consultant - Data Science

    Kiru has worked as a consultant to create end-to-end advanced analytics transformation programs. Furthermore, he has led the team in migrating existing use cases from IBM Watson to Azure Databricks.

  • John Keells Holdings PLC 2019 - 2022

    Kiru has worked as a consultant to create end-to-end advanced analytics transformation programs. Furthermore, he has led the team in migrating existing use cases from IBM Watson to Azure Databricks.

    Delivers proven dollar impact use-cases with the direction from McKinsey and Company Leads multiple data science teams / analytics use-cases simultaneously in retail domains Directs team on the following: Problem scoping, Solution designs, Architecture designs, Optimize use-case pipelines, Migrates machine learning models into production, and Commercialize business problems In addition to his day-to-day works with data science teams, Kiru works with platform teams to implement a tailored MLOps process within organizations Facilitates training to C- level managers, business heads, and data scientists Mentor data scientists and associate data scientists

  • EFL 2021 - 2022

    Consultant - Data Science

  • Innovation Quotient (Pvt)Ltd 2019 - 2019

    Head of Data Science

    Initiated Data Science Division at Innovation Quotient and brought up the team now with 9 members. Successfully managed the division to develop and deploy data processing platforms, data analytics platforms, and predictive models for different industries such as Telco, Logistics, Leisure, and Finance.

  • Innovation Quotient (Pvt)Ltd 2016 - 2019

    Data Scientist

  • Salmat 2017 - 2017

    Senior Software Engineer

  • Salmat 2014 - 2016

    Software Engineer

  • Virtusa 2017 - 2014

    Software Engineer(Engineer- Technology)

Languages

Tamil
Proficient
English
Proficient