Summary
Charun Umesh is a Senior Data Scientist based in Colombo with 8 years of software and data experience and over 4 years focused on production-grade machine learning and AI. He is AWS Cloud Practitioner and ML Specialty certified and has built scalable ML pipelines and models for telecom audiences, handling datasets of 15+ million records to solve churn prediction, dynamic pricing, and upsell challenges. Comfortable across the stack, he leverages AWS SageMaker, Snowflake, Docker, Python, SQL and Flask to deploy reusable, production-ready solutions that translate into business impact. His background includes full-stack and payment gateway work as well as freelance ML projects—ranging from cartoon violation detection to sentiment analysis—demonstrating both engineering breadth and applied creativity. At Dialog Axiata he progressed from Data Scientist to Senior Data Scientist by operationalizing time-series clustering with SOMs to surface nuanced customer behavior segments. He combines practical deployment experience with a knack for turning messy, large-scale data into actionable intelligence.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
D.S Senanayake National College Ampara
Bachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka
Sinhalese, English