Doruk Kilitcioglu
Director, Data Science
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDoruk Kilitcioglu is a data science leader at Fidelity Investments, where as Director of Data Science he drives personalization and recommender systems at scale, blending research rigor with production-grade delivery. With an NYU MSCS and a Boğaziçi University bachelor’s in Computer Engineering, he combines advanced machine learning expertise (Bayesian stats, time series, deep learning, NLP) with practical software engineering skills across Python, Java, Matlab and more. Over a decade in industry, he has progressed from data scientist to director, delivering measurable improvements in recommendation quality and playlist generation efficiency, and previously contributed as a graduate adjunct at NYU. His hands-on toolkit spans TensorFlow, scikit-learn, Hadoop, Lucene, and visualization—enabling end-to-end ML pipelines from experimentation to deployment. Based in Boston, he also brings teaching and collaboration experience from his time mentoring recitations and engaging with cross-functional teams, and a personal interest in music and Renaissance art that informs his data-driven curiosity about people.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Incoming Exchange, Incoming Exchange at The University of QueenslandMasters, Computer Science, GPA: 4.0, Masters, Computer Science, GPA: 4.0 at New York UniversityHigh School, High School at Robert CollegeBachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, GPA: 3.47, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, GPA: 3.47 at Boğaziçi University
English, Japanese, Turkish
Github Skills (50)
manifold10
markov-decision-processes10
reward10
pattern-mining9
machine-learning9
fraud-detection9
factorization9
nlp9
recommender9
svd8
python8
collaborative-filtering8
natural-language-processing8
youtube-dl8
jekyll8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dorukkilitcioglu/persistd
Jul 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:43 pushes, 2 tags, 23 comments in 4 years 5 months
bounswe/bounswe2015group8
May 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:80 commits, 17 PRs, 60 pushes in 8 months
reactjavascriptculturalreactjsshare
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