Ilker Ozturk
Global Head Of Data Science And Engineering
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIlker Ozturk is a seasoned financial data and engineering leader based in London with over a decade of experience building and scaling global data teams and platforms. Currently Global Head of Data Science and Engineering at TS Imagine, he has progressed through roles from hands-on financial data analyst to senior management, blending domain expertise in market data, corporate actions and derived analytics with modern data engineering practices. Ilker pairs strategic leadership—recruiting, process redesign and vendor management—with technical fluency, having contributed to backend and CI work on open-source blockchain tooling like Ignite's CLI. He holds an MSc in Data Science from Birkbeck and is known for turning manual, error-prone processes into automated, auditable workflows that improve client outcomes. Colleagues rely on him as both an escalation point for complex issues and a bridge between product, operations and engineering. His background uniquely combines deep financial market knowledge with pragmatic DevOps and data platform experience.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA Business Administration, BA Business Administration at Galatasaray ÜniversitesiMaster of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at Birkbeck, University of London
English, Turkish, French
Github Skills (10)
command-line-interface10
go10
cicd10
cli10
command-line10
protocol-buffers9
automated-build9
cosmos-sdk8
tendermint8
blockchain8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ignite/cli
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Ignite is a CLI tool and hub designed for constructing Proof of Stake Blockchains rooted in Cosmos-SDK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:76 releases, 1784 reviews, 585 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ilker's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the backend functionality of the Ignite CLI, specifically by simplifying command execution checks and adding new options for serving applications. They also worked on improving the build process and environment setup, including changes to the Go module and the addition of a CI workflow with the use of a code generated Protobuf plugin. The commits reveal active involvement in integrating the project with a Continuous Integration process.
clicosmos-sdktendermintblockchainignite
tendermint/spm
May 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:9 releases, 11 reviews, 7 commits in 7 months
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