Ferhat Culfaz
Director, Digital Solutions, Clinical Supply Chain at GSK
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolFerhat Culfaz is a Director of Digital Solutions in Clinical Supply Chain at GSK with eight years of data science and engineering experience bridging optics, satellite imaging and machine learning for high-impact industries. Trained as a physicist with a PhD in nano-optics, he transitioned from building and characterising Earth observation payloads to forecasting financial time series and now leads ML-driven analytics and LLM integration to reduce waste and stock-outs in pharmaceutical supply chains. He combines hands-on expertise in ETL, statistical forecasting and model deployment with a researcher's rigor, having contributed to satellite imaging projects and held patents in electro-optics earlier in his career. Based in the UK, he is a pragmatic innovator who blends deep technical roots with product-focused delivery and a continuing passion for AI and science.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MPhys Physics, MPhys Physics at The University of ManchesterEast Barnet SchoolPhD Nano-Optics, PhD Nano-Optics at King's College London
English, Turkish, German
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Github Skills (45)
forecasting-models10
r10
forecasting10
forecasts10
forecast10
trading9
python9
allocation9
convex-optimization9
finance9
investment-analysis9
quantitative9
quantitative-finance8
time-series8
r-package7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ferhat00/PortfolioOptimisation
Jan 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:28 commits, 26 pushes in 1 year 1 month
ferhat00/Udemy
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:33 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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