Summary
Dursun Özdemir is a Senior Data Scientist based in Istanbul with five years of hands-on experience turning messy data into production-ready ML solutions across mobility, rental, and retail domains. He has shipped end-to-end projects—from YOLOv5 photo detection on GCP Vertex AI and RandomForest/GeoPandas spatial positioning to LightGBM retention models and dynamic pricing engines—while operationalizing pipelines with Airflow and BigQuery. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs statistical rigor and experimentation (A/B testing, CLTV, RFM) with pragmatic engineering skills in Python, SQL, Power BI and ThoughtSpot. A former teaching assistant and bootcamp participant, he also mentors learners and has a background in SAP BW and ETL, which helps him bridge analytics and business stakeholders. Ambitious about scale, he’s currently advancing his expertise through an MS in Data Science at Galatasaray University.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at Galatasaray Üniversitesi
Lisans Derecesi Management Information Systems, Lisans Derecesi Management Information Systems at Akdeniz University