Ishara Usoof

Ishara Usoof

Data Scientist
Sri Lanka

About Me

I am a professional data scientist with three years of experience in big data analytics and data science. Currently I’m following the Masters’ degree in Big Data Analytics at Robert Gordan University, Aberdeen remotely t…

Experience

Associate- Data Science and Engineering

Octave at John Keells Holding
May 2023 - Present · 3 years 5 months

<p>Conducted a test and control base beta pilot run to value capture net impact for Promotion Item Recommendation System<br>
Created a dashboard using powerbi to view the value capture of KPIs for the beta pilot<br>
Integrated a new alert type for a critical hourly running alert system with real time data sources<br>
Experimented Explainable AI to a xgboost model using pandas and tested the feasibility of XAI for random forest model in pyspark ml libraries</p>

Associate Data Science and Engineering

John keells holdings
May 2023 - Present · 3 years 6 months

Data Science role
Implementation of enhancements in use cases that are already in production. Build end to end machine learning models. Experiment intepretability of ML models.
Backend table creation for dashboards.

Intern - Data Science and Engineering

Octave at John Keells Holding
Nov 2022 - Apr 2023 · 5 months

<p>Built end to end Customer Segmentation model from scratch<br>
Libraries used KMeans and Random forest model in pyspark.ml.libraries<br>
Conducted analysis on Stock Holding Days optimization study</p>

Executive - Data Analyst

Ceylinco Life Insurance Limited
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022 · 1 year

<p>Conducted presentations related on decision making (KPIs, Sales performance, income and incentive analysis) to the board members<br>
Presented a research study on customer income lifecycle and value chain in certain industries to improve data quality<br>
Collaborate dashboard creation to monitor policy status insights in Tableau<br>
Market Basket Analysis - Apriori Algorithm applied to insurance products</p>

Data Science Internship and Trainee

Veracity AI
Dec 2020 - Sep 2021 · 9 months

<p>Data collection automated with web scraping using python<br>
Built an end to end Machine learning model for Brand name Clustering using BERT<br>
Developed a income based analytic web application that will provide insightful visualizations for the clients using Django framework</p>

Skills

Neural Networks Numeric Information Data Analysis and Reporting Python SQL PySpark Big Data Analytics Azure Databricks Apache Spark Hive Jupyter Notebook Azure DevOps Git Power BI Tableau Data Mining NLP Machine Learning Deep Learning C++ CSS HTML JavaScript Django Framework Matplotlib Pandas Testing Web Scraping Excel XAI Statistics Text Mining BERT TensorFlow GPT-2 LSTM KMeans Random Forest Apriori Algorithm XGBoost
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