Engin Turkmen
Data Scientist Lead
Greater Pittsburgh Region United States
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Top SchoolEngin Turkmen is a Data Scientist Lead with 8+ years of experience building production-grade AI systems that cut costs and accelerate decision-making, now leading AI efforts at PNC. He specializes in agentic AI and enterprise LLM architectures, combining LLMs, knowledge graphs, multi-agent orchestration and vector DBs to deliver scalable RAG, conversational agents, and recommendation engines. Comfortable across the stack, he owns end-to-end ML lifecycle work—from data engineering and model tuning to MLOps on AWS SageMaker, Azure ML and Databricks—and has deep experience with Neo4j/GNNs for link prediction. A former military officer and mathematics educator, he brings structured leadership and cross-functional mentoring to translate executive priorities into technical roadmaps. Notably, he pairs rapid prototyping tools (n8n, LangChain/LlamaIndex) with rigorous CI/CD and model monitoring to move prototypes into resilient production services.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Business Administration and Management, General, Master of Science - MS, Business Administration and Management, General at Selçuk ÜniversitesiPG in Data Engineering, Information Technology, PG in Data Engineering, Information Technology at Purdue UniversityLicentiate degree, NATO Courses, Licentiate degree, NATO Courses at NATO SCHOOL OBERAMMERGAUMaster of Arts - MA, National and International Security Strategies, Management and Leadership, Master of Arts - MA, National and International Security Strategies, Management and Leadership at Milli Savunma ÜniversitesiLicentiate degree, Mathematics, Licentiate degree, Mathematics at Old Dominion University
English, Turkish
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Github contributions (5)
ShiningData/Capstone_Project-IBM_HR_Analytics
Dec 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:39 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
ShiningData/Capstone_Project-Sentiment_Analysis
Feb 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:53 commits, 52 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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