Experience

Pendulum Therapeutics

• United States
• Biotechnology
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Data Scientist

  • Jul 2023 - Present



Underground Cellar

• United States
• Beverage Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Data Scientist

  • Aug 2021 - Jan 2023

  Underground Cellar is an engaging wine e-commerce company making discovering new wine fun and approachable Designed and implemented the data infrastructure using Google BigQuery, resulting in a 50% increase in data processing speed and a 30% decrease in data storage costs, enabling faster and more accurate decision-making for the organization Led the development and implementation of a customer segmentation strategy, utilizing machine learning techniques and customer behavior data to identify and target high-value customer segments, resulting in a 20% increase in customer retention and a 15% increase in revenue Developed and implemented a sales forecasting model using time-series analysis resulting in enabling the organization to optimize inventory management, reduce stockouts, and increase revenue by 10% Also, obtained WSET Level 3, which is equivalent to a sommelier you get at high-end restaurants Show less



Udacity

• United States
• E-learning
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Data Scientist

  • Dec 2018 - Aug 2021

  Fostered cross-functional collaboration by establishing a data-driven culture across departments, facilitating regular communication, and leading training sessions on best practices for data analysis, resulting in increased efficiency and alignment across teams Architected, developed, and optimized end-to-end data pipelines for critical datasets used by both customer-facing products and internal dashboards, leveraging Airflow, dbt, AWS Athena, and implementing automated quality control measures, resulting in a reduction in data processing time and increase in data accuracy Show less

• Technical Program Manager

  • Mar 2017 - Dec 2018

  As the first technical employee of the Enterprise team, played a pivotal role in establishing the team's technical foundation and supporting its growth from inception to a multi-million dollar business unit, collaborating with cross-functional teams and leading the development of key technical initiatives Spearheaded cross-functional projects by collaborating closely with engineers, product managers, and business managers to successfully design, develop, and launch a new customer-facing platform, while ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality software products within budget and time constraints. Led the design and implementation of a new Data Lake platform, utilizing cloud-based technologies such as AWS, building automated quality control measures, and optimizing performance and scalability, resulting in a 50% reduction in data processing time to and improved data accuracy, while enabling the organization to scale its data infrastructure to support its growing business needs Show less



Eksi Inc.

• Palo Alto, CA

• Data Scientist

  • Feb 2016 - Mar 2017

  Turkey’s biggest knowledge sharing platform with over +50M monthly unique visitors Developed and deployed a content recommendation system utilizing advanced natural language processing techniques, resulting in a 10% increase in user engagement and hence revenue due to increased pageviews Led the development and implementation of a comprehensive user segmentation strategy by applying advanced statistical models, unsupervised learning techniques, and clustering algorithms to large-scale user behavior data to improve moderation and decrease operational costs and improve moderator efficiency Show less



Mekanist.net

• Türkiye
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Developer

  • Jul 2012 - Jun 2014

  Mekanist was Turkey's biggest online platform for consumers to review their opinions over goods and services they purchased. Mekanist was first the Turkish startup to receive VC financing from Silicon Valley. Mekanist has been acquired by Zomato in 2015. Mekanist was Turkey's biggest online platform for consumers to review their opinions over goods and services they purchased. Mekanist was first the Turkish startup to receive VC financing from Silicon Valley. Mekanist has been acquired by Zomato in 2015.



Yogurt Technologies

• Istanbul, Turkey

• Software Development Intern

  • Aug 2011 - Sep 2011

  Yogurt Technologies is a software development company focuses on development of a 3D physics engine based on Adobe Flash. Supported software development team with in-house developed CMS. Mainly focused on front- end development and usability. Yogurt Technologies is a software development company focuses on development of a 3D physics engine based on Adobe Flash. Supported software development team with in-house developed CMS. Mainly focused on front- end development and usability.