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Dilan Jayasinghe

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Slough, United Kingdom

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    HEAD OF AI & AI INNOVATION
    Shopper Media Group (SMG),
    Aug 2024 - Current (1 year 9 months)
    • Conceived, secured, and executed SMG's macro AI strategy, aligning C‑suite vision with phased road‑maps and £400 k innovation budget. • Built, deployed, and now maintain six GenAI applications-including a campaign‑brief generator and performance‑insight agent-delivering 25‑50 % time‑savings per use‑case. • Architected agentic workflows that integrate OpenAI models with first‑party retail‑media data, shrinking media‑planning turnaround from 120 min → <10 min. • Rolled out third‑party AI tooling (ChatGPT and Gemini for Workspace) and designed a "train‑the‑AI‑trainer" curriculum, up‑skilling 500+ employees across 8 departments. • Lead a cross‑functional squad of AI engineers, data scientists and product managers; coach product‑owners on
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    FRACTIONAL AI CONSULTANT / PROJECT MANAGER
    Various VC‑Backed Start‑ups (Remote)
    Feb 2024 - Current (2 years 3 months)
    • Contracted advisory bridging US dev‑shops and executive teams; scoped MVPs, managed sprints, set success metrics. • Shipped an agentic customer‑support pipeline, deflecting 45 % of tickets for a Series‑A SaaS firm, and authored investor decks that helped secure $2 M in seed‑extension funding.
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    HEAD OF AI/ MACHINE LEARNING AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
    Oct 2023 - Aug 2024 (11 months)
    • Head AI Engineer responsible for all generative AI and machine learning integration for clients. ◦ Built end-to-end generative AI solutions from scratch, creating intuitive front-end user interfaces and managing robust back-end data pipelines for clients; increased operational efficiency by 30% and reduced data processing time by 50% • Solely responsible for Generative AI products and software used by the firm which achieved a huge reduction in company expenses and increased efficiency of Tax-based document generation by upwards of 60%. The SaaS services designed and created, were essential in catapulting the technological presence of the company. ◦ Led data storage optimisation efforts, which successfully implemented efficient data
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    INDEPENDENT AI CONSULTANT
    White Jay A.I
    Jul 2022 - Jan 2024 (1 year 7 months)
    • Advised SMBs on machine learning and GenAI strategies, customising solutions to optimise operations, improve decision making, and drive revenue growth, maximising ROI. • Tailored machine learning models and algorithms successfully leveraged data-driven insights that enhanced predictive analytics. Achieving between 20-50% reduction in total costs when compared to manual data analysis with well over a 3-fold increase in speed of insight delivery. • Provided expert guidance on data collection, preprocessing, and analysis, enabling clients to extract actionable intelligence from their own datasets. This successfully set up data pipelines and frameworks for continued maintenance of data driven decision-making. • Spearheaded a collaborative
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    DEVELOPER AND DATA SCIENTIST
    Jul 2022 - Nov 2022 (5 months)
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    HEAD 3D DEVELOPER
    Macdonald Motorsports (MMS)
    Jun 2021 - Jun 2022 (1 year 1 month)
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    Head of AI & AI
    Shopper Media Group (SMG),
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    REGIONAL MANAGER FOR
    LONDON– KonnectedOpen Infra
  • Kubrick Group
    MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEER
    Kubrick Group
    • Offered contract for the role of Machine Learning Engineer at Kubrick Group, a renowned organisation specialising in data and technology consulting. • Demonstrated exceptional skills and expertise in AI and machine learning, leading to the selection for the position. ◦ Acknowledged the reputation and standing of Kubrick Group in the industry, reflecting the recognition of capabilities in the field of AI and machine learning.
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    DataCamp data science courses; Data Science Specialisation
    JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY.
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    Machine Learning and Deep learning specialisation
    Stanford University;
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    Python for Data Science and Machine Learning Bootcamp; Machine Learning
    Georgia Tech;
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    BSc
    Burnham Grammar School