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Jenarthanan Rajenthirana
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Jenarthanan Rajenthirana

Aintree,VIC

Summary

AI Engineer with 5+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying scalable AI/ML and LLM-powered enterprise applications across e-commerce, private equity, and analytics domains. Strong expertise in Python, SQL, Azure AI services, and modern GenAI architectures, with hands-on experience developing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, LLM fine-tuning workflows, vector search systems, and knowledge retrieval platforms. Proficient in engineering production-grade AI solutions using Azure OpenAI, Azure ML, Azure Cognitive Search, Azure Functions, and frameworks such as LangChain and LlamaIndex. Experienced in containerization with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and building secure, scalable, and maintainable AI platforms for real-world deployment. Skilled in translating business requirements into robust AI systems, implementing end-to-end ML lifecycle practices (data pipelines, model deployment, monitoring, and optimisation), and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact intelligent applications.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Data Scientist

Stax Asia
02.2025 - 06.2025
  • Delivered advanced analytics and AI solutions supporting Private Equity clients across multiple industries, enabling data-driven commercial due diligence, valuation assessment, churn prediction, and revenue optimization initiatives.
  • Led the end-to-end development of Athena, an enterprise LLM-powered knowledge and insight platform, enhancing investment research efficiency and internal consulting workflows.
  • Designed and deployed scalable AI architectures on Azure (Azure OpenAI, Azure ML, Cognitive Search), achieving 40% organizational adoption within 6 months.
  • Processed and structured 10+ years of client engagement data and delivery documents to enable machine learning ingestion, semantic search, and downstream analytics for investment analysis.
  • Developed and maintained SQL and ETL pipelines aligned with strong data governance standards to support high-quality analytics for Private Equity engagements.
  • Built AI-powered semantic search and chatbot systems using embeddings and RAG pipelines, collaborating with consulting teams to translate business requirements into tools supporting Private Equity decision-making.

Senior Data Scientist

Stax Asia
10.2022 - 02.2025
  • Identified client business domains and audited target company’s financial statements for VDR audit and pipeline.
  • Performed web scraping on publicly available sources, collected necessary data from Alteryx databases, and integrated data into client databases to enhance quality and coverage.
  • Conducted revenue and customer churn analysis, developing statistical models based on end markets and customer segmentation.
  • Generated actionable insights on business growth and provided recommendations to empower private equity firms in decision-making.

Data Scientist

ADA Digital Singapore PTE. LTD
05.2021 - 10.2022
  • Led e-Commerce projects for major online retailers, involving web scraping, data extraction, and scheduling with AWS Airflow.
  • Transformed and cleansed data using SQL queries to enable robust business insight analysis.
  • Analyzed third-party big data with PySpark and implemented a device mapping system to identify WiFi terminal devices’ networks.
  • Expanded the device mapping project across 9 countries following initial success.

Machine Learning Engineer (Freelance Projects)

Omdena
06.2020 - 03.2021

Collaborated with a global team of 50 changemakers to capture diverse perspectives and emotions of youth from diverse geographic regions.

  • Collected social media data from Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter to analyze sentiment of young people.
  • Performed topic modeling, sentiment analysis, and produced data visualizations to communicate insights.

NLP Data Annotator & Research Assistant (Academic Research Position)

University of Moratuwa
01.2019 - 03.2020
  • Designed BIO tag sets and curated annotated data from official government documents.
  • Developed a Tamil name density recogniser by applying deep learning and distributed semantic techniques.
  • Developed a scalable, semi-automatic approach to create annotated corpora for regional languages.

Education

BSc.(Hons) - Computer Science and Engineering

University of Moratuwa
Colombo, Sri Lanka
07-2021

Skills

  • Programming: Python, SQL, R, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript
  • Machine Learning & Deep Learning: Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch,Neural Networks, Topic Modeling
  • Generative AI & LLM Engineering: LLMs, GPT-4, Agentic AI, RAG, Prompt Engineering, OpenAI APIs, Hugging Face Transformers, BERT
  • Data Processing & Analysis: Pandas, NumPy, PySpark, Feature Engineering, Experimental Design
  • Cloud & AI Platforms: Microsoft Azure AI, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Data Visualization: Power BI, Tableau, Matplotlib, Excel, Power Query
  • Databases: MySQL
  • Application Development: Streamlit
  • Data Extraction & Automation: Beautiful Soup, Selenium
  • Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, PHP

Work Availability

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PUBLICATIONS

  • Unified Voice Embedding Through Multi-task Learning - International Conference on Asian Language Processing (Oct 2022).
  • Explainable Embedding based on Speaker feature Using AAVD - Technological Advances in Science, Medicine & Engineering Conference (Jun 2021).
  • ACTSEA: annotated corpus for Tamil & Sinhala emotion analysis - Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (Jul 2019).

Work Preference

Job Search Status

Open to work

Work Type

Full TimeContract WorkPart TimeGig Work

Location Preference

On-SiteRemoteHybrid

Salary Range

$81000/yr - $200000/yr

Timeline

Lead Data Scientist

Stax Asia
02.2025 - 06.2025

Senior Data Scientist

Stax Asia
10.2022 - 02.2025

Data Scientist

ADA Digital Singapore PTE. LTD
05.2021 - 10.2022

Machine Learning Engineer (Freelance Projects)

Omdena
06.2020 - 03.2021

NLP Data Annotator & Research Assistant (Academic Research Position)

University of Moratuwa
01.2019 - 03.2020

BSc.(Hons) - Computer Science and Engineering

University of Moratuwa
Jenarthanan Rajenthirana