Wihitha Deshan (Demi) Thathsara

Silvatron Pty Ltd — AI Solutions Consultant & Developer

Jan 2026 – Present · Melbourne — AI & automation for Victorian Government-sector clients.

• Train cross-functional teams on AI-augmented workflows, driving 3–5x efficiency gains and measurable ROI — the kind of practical capability-building this advisory role centres on.
• Architected a production document-intelligence pipeline (LangGraph, Python, AWS Bedrock) that turns hundreds of unstructured regulatory compliance documents into validated structured data — cutting a multi-hour manual task to ~30 minutes per assessment at ~90% extraction accuracy (F1), at roughly $1.65 per document. Live in client user-acceptance testing (access on request).
• Built Sentinel, an AI code-review and DevOps automation bot (Claude Code, n8n, Bitbucket, Jira, Discord) that automates pull-request review and issue tracking, saving an estimated 20+ hours of team effort per month.
• Delivered a role-segregated policy compliance assistant (RAG with database-level row security) that flags out-of-date policies and cites sources inline — every answer carries a source citation and currency flag, with zero cross-role data leaks in validation.
• Operate under formal confidentiality obligations for government work — experienced in handling sensitive client information responsibly.

CoralShades (AI Agency) — Digital & AI Consultant

Sep 2025 – Apr 2026 · Melbourne — intelligent systems for business and government clients.

• Advised business and government clients on adopting AI and automation, scoping practical use cases and guiding them from idea to working solution.
• Built a policy-intelligence system that automatically monitors public government sources and delivers plain-language regulatory updates, removing hours of manual monitoring each week.
• Delivered InsightsLM, a self-hosted local RAG document-intelligence system (n8n, Ollama, Supabase/pgvector) so clients can search and reason over their own documents.
• Built PolicyAi (policy.coralshades.ai), a live AI policy & compliance Q&A system with source-grounded citations and role-based access (React, Supabase, RAG).
• Architected CurryDash, a multi-vendor food-delivery marketplace platform (Laravel, MySQL, GCP Cloud Run) spanning 11 delivery epics and 100+ API endpoints.
• Fine-tuned open-source LLMs and built LangSmith evaluation pipelines for systematic model benchmarking.

RAAVA Innovations — Founder & Digital/AI Advisor

2021 – Present · Melbourne · ai.raava.au — my independent AI & digital agency (working solo and leading small project teams) for Australian SMEs.

• Founded and run my own agency — working solo and leading small project teams — advising SMEs across retail, healthcare and professional services on digital growth and practical AI adoption; portfolio and case studies at ai.raava.au.
• Built Previa, an AI financial-admin platform helping households, freelancers and small businesses save 5+ hours/week — 70%+ automated transaction reconciliation and 95%+ receipt OCR accuracy (React, Supabase, n8n, Mistral, GPT-4o-mini).
• Delivered Banana Leaf, a restaurant-management MVP — Flutter customer app, Next.js admin and a real-time kitchen display system.
• Developing Sinhala voice AI / ASR (Whisper, faster-whisper) for underserved multilingual markets.

Fujian Footwear Pty Ltd — IT & Digital Marketing Consultant

Nov 2023 – Jul 2025 · Melbourne — advisory across e-commerce, analytics and AI adoption.

• Drove a 20% increase in e-commerce revenue by integrating AI-powered trend analysis and automated reporting across retail, wholesale and marketplace channels.
• Built interactive Google Looker Studio dashboards that replaced manual weekly reporting and gave the team real-time visibility of digital performance.
• Pioneered AI tool adoption across business processes — inventory, trend forecasting and workflow optimisation — and coached staff on using them day-to-day.
• Produced 3D product visuals and campaign content that outperformed competitor visual strategies across multi-channel promotions.

Fujian Footwear Pty Ltd — Digital Marketing Coordinator / Manager

May 2022 – Oct 2023 · Melbourne — e-commerce, paid social, SEO and brand across four channels.

• Managed end-to-end digital campaigns across e-commerce, retail stores, wholesale and marketplace, owning monthly budgets and reporting ROI via Google Analytics and Meta Business Suite.
• Ran paid social (Meta Ads Manager), SEO and content/landing-page optimisation to grow online visibility and customer acquisition.
• Oversaw marketplace operations (Channel Advisor), promotional planning and account management across platforms.
• Managed influencer relationships and seasonal content; translated data insights into actionable retail strategies that lifted engagement.
• Built and managed e-commerce sites across the group's retail brands — ishoes.com.au, justbee.com.au, pandaslippers.com.au and fujianfootwear.com.au.

Monash University, Faculty of IT — Student Ambassador

Jun 2021 – Nov 2023 · Melbourne — public-facing communication & content delivery.

• Created video and social content for student recruitment across Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat and Meta; represented the faculty and supported recruitment sessions.

• Bachelor of Information Technology — Monash University, 2019 – completing Jul 2026. Majors: Computer Network Security, Interactive Media.
• Diploma of Information Technology — Monash College, 2018 – 2019.

• Career Essentials in Generative AI — Microsoft & LinkedIn (2023).
• Ethics in the Age of Generative AI — LinkedIn (2023).
• Best Election Coverage Editor — Monash University & MOJO News (2022) — awarded once every four years; aired on C31 Melbourne.
• Motion Graphic Designer — Federal & State Election Campaigns, aired on Channel 31 Melbourne (2022).

Location & availability: Noble Park, VIC — comfortable with the Cremorne hybrid pattern (3 office / 2 home); available immediately; open to occasional regional travel.
Languages: English (professional), Sinhala (native).  ·  References: available on request.

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