Gautham
Kumaran

Applied AI Engineer · Senior Data Scientist

I'm Gautham Kumaran, a Data Scientist based in Dubai with 10 years building production ML and AI systems across FinTech, fraud, telecom, and e-commerce.

At heart I'm a builder chasing real-world impact, and enjoy learning the technical skills necessary to get the job done. I started as a web developer, moved into data science and worked in both classic ML and deep learning solutions, and recently, I've been building agentic systems.

These ideas shape how I build:

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked." — John Gall

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." — Sherlock Holmes

"Everything fails all the time." — Werner Vogels

01 — Career
2022
Now
Careem
Senior Data Scientist II · Dubai
Agentic RAG systems and risk models for Integrity & Payments — cut fraud reaction time from hours to minutes and chargeback losses by 94%.
2019
2021
Etisalat
Senior Data Scientist · Dubai
Core of the 5G Network Intelligence & AI research group — forecasting demand across 5,000+ cells to cut energy OPEX by 15%.
2017
2019
Unthink AI · YFret
Data Scientist · Bangalore
Early hire building real-time e-commerce search & personalization — recommendation engine serving 6M visits/month.
2016
2017
SAP Labs
Associate Developer · Bangalore
Engineering on the S/4HANA Sales Cloud team — CRM and sales apps with SAP UI5.
02 — Recent writing
Kaggle Silver Medal — OSIC Pulmonary Fibrosis Progression
Kaggle
2020
Encoder-Decoder Models for Multistep Time-Series Forecasting
Towards Data Science
2020
Similar-Image Recommendations with FastAI and Annoy
Towards Data Science
2019
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