Karthikeyan Sambanthan

CEO

Dubai, United Arab Emirates12 yrs 8 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Over 13 years of experience in Data Analytics and AI/ML.
Proficient in multiple programming languages and tools.
Developed impactful AI/ML models for product lifecycle.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Science and AI Engineering expert in the Automotive and Banking sectors.

Contact

karthikeyan.sambanthan@rakbank.ae LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Ai EngineeringPredictive ModelingClusteringData AnalyticsProduct ManagementData Analysis

Other Skills

Marketing CampaignsCustomer SegmentationChatBot DevelopmentCampaign ManagementMarket ResearchProduct DevelopmentMarket AnalysisUser StoriesData GovernanceContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)AI AgentsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Large Language Models (LLM)GenAIBanking

About

- 13+ years of experience in Data Analytics, Data Science, GenAI and Product Development - Secured balanced knowledge of Automobile and Banking products across verticals like Cards & Unsecured Lending, Credit risk, Retail and Insurance - Proficient in Python, SAS, SQL, Hive, Teradata, Unix shell scripting, Spark and, Cloud services like GCP and AWS - Developed impactful AI/ML models to orchestrate the entire product lifecycle - from strategizing and planning, quality assurance, successful release, deployment and end to end automation - Worked in Regression, Time series, Classification models, Clustering, Deep learning models, LLM, Predictive and Descriptive Analysis, Performance & Trend Analysis, A/B Testing and Digital Analytics.

Experience

12 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr

Current Experience

Rakbank

Associate Vice President - Data Science

Jun 2025 – Present · 1 yr · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Ford motor company

Senior Manager - AI Engineering

Apr 2024 – May 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

Assisted the business to predict missing country of customers enabling the respective automobile verticals to segment and attribute revenue based on it.
Developed Model to predict potential customers who will purchase EV and SuperDuty vehicle in the coming quarter for launching more effective marketing campaigns resulting in 36% conversions and increased revenue.
Identified potential customers with Propensity Models who are likely to purchase products like Telematics and Mobile Service leading to 2 Mn USD incremental revenue every year.
Built scoring and clustering models to identify and target non-Ford customers who were potential candidates for conversion; equivalent Ford vehicles were also suggested by analyzing data on competitor vehicle purchases.
Developed a ChatBot using Gemini Flash 2.0 to support the marketing team in audience segmentation and base sizing during campaign planning.

AI EngineeringPredictive ModelingMarketing CampaignsCustomer SegmentationChatBot Development

Crayon data

Senior Manager - Customer Science

Sep 2019 – Mar 2024 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates

Assisted bank to Identify, monitor, track all types of assets (Loans, OD, Credit Cards etc.,) and also provide the bank user the option to access the complete information pertaining to their loan accounts, other account details of the customer, transaction details of those accounts etc., thereby enabling the respective departments to take appropriate actions and decisions.
Developed Models like predicting potential loan defaulters resulting in 8% NPL reduction, Credit card selector with 46% conversions, Next Best product and Campaigns like Spend Category Deepening & widening, Loan repeat customers, Salary Transfer etc.
Implemented data-driven strategies for campaign planning & execution, provided valuable insights to optimize campaign performance and achieve objectives, conducted market research and competitor analysis to identify opportunities and threats.
Developed genome at customer & bank level and built the entire pre-approved journey including coding, performance tuning, funnel and product analytics.
Created Scoring models and built many products like Territory Management Console, Team challenges and Queue Management System (that are compatible in website and mobile) to ease and assist in taking strategic decisions; worked in building use cases for Fraud Analytics.

Data AnalyticsPredictive ModelingCampaign ManagementMarket ResearchProduct Development