Summary
Fırat Gelbal is an Analytics Engineer with 10 years of experience building data products, pipelines and BI platforms across Europe, currently at Automattic in Barcelona. He blends hands-on data engineering (Python, SQL, Spark, Redshift, Hive/Hadoop, AWS) with product-facing analytics and visualization expertise (Looker, D3.js), having led teams and migrations that processed billions of events. As co-founder of Turkey’s first recommender systems company, he combines research-driven personalization and information retrieval skills with practical delivery—winning international innovation awards along the way. Comfortable moving between finance, product and ML use-cases, he has a track record of turning bespoke analytics into reusable products and growing teams while shaping product vision.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Business Information Systems, Master of Science, Business Information Systems at Eindhoven University of Technology
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering at Koç University
Liberal Arts and Sciences, Liberal Arts and Sciences at University of Pennsylvania
English, Turkish, Spanish, Dutch