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Senior Data Scientist
Experience
Evreka - Lead Data Scientist
August 2022 - Present
- Implemented a tailored Capacitated Clustering Algorithm to solve high-scale Vehicle Routing Problems, including up to 10,000 nodes.
- Developed and deployed a machine learning model leveraging sensor data to forecast waste container fill levels.
- Developed a new smoothing algorithm for time series sensor data, reducing noise and false positive events by 20%.
- Developed data pipelines and machine learning models to detect faulty sensors, enabling proactive action before customer complaints.
- Collaborated with the development team to migrate from Oracle Cloud to AWS, reducing cloud costs by 35%.
- Mentored and trained junior data scientists and engineers, providing guidance and support in their professional development.
- Automated analytics report translation leveraging LLMs with custom datasets and prompts.
Evreka - Data Scientist
October 2020 - August 2022
- Developed the Route Optimization Service to solve various Vehicle Routing Problems, including heuristic algorithms, backend endpoints, and REST API integrations.
- Developed a MIP model for an employee scheduling problem with real-world constraints using Python and CPLEX API.
- Executed analyses for waste collection companies, reducing fleet sizes by up to 17% by providing optimized work plans.
- Built data infrastructure and ELT/ETL pipelines using Dbt, Airflow, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and AWS.
- Integrated PowerBI Embedded to deliver insights, adding a key selling point for the company.
Turkish Technic - Data Engineer
June 2019 - October 2020
- Led the monitoring project, enhancing IT operations insight through comprehensive observability.
- Built streaming data pipelines for metrics and logs from servers, services and IoT devices.
- Developed Python and Kapacitor scripts for processing time series data and anomaly alerts.
- Created real-time dashboards with Grafana to boost engineering efficiency across the organization.
Education
PhD(s) Operations Research
Hacı Bayram Veli University 2024 - 2028Msc. Industrial Engineering
Yıldız Technical University 2019 - 2023 | GPA: 3.71Bsc. Industrial Engineering
Gazi University 2013 - 2017 | GPA: 3.35Languages
Turkish - Native
English - Professional
Technical Skills
- Languages
- pythonsqlrc#bashpwsh
- Data
- postgresqlpostgiss3timescaledbmongoredisinfluxdbkapacitorairflowdbt
- Visualization
- powerbigrafanasupersetplotly
- Optimization
- cplexor-toolsgams
- Infrastructure
- awslinuxdockergraylogpgbouncernginxprometheus
- Libraries
- fastapinumpysklearnsktimecatboostlightgbmpandasmlforecastgeopandasnetworkxtimesfmchronosautogluon
- Development
- gitgitlab-cigithub-actionsjenkins
- Map Services
- osrmvalhallaheremapsgooglemaps