Summary
Kutay Akalın is a data scientist with 8 years' experience building end-to-end analytics and ML solutions across product, gaming, digital marketing, and music domains. He blends industrial engineering rigor and a Master's in Big Data Analytics with hands-on expertise in Python, BigQuery, Airflow, Vertex AI and cloud-native deployment to turn behavioral data into actionable KPIs and LTV/segmentation models. As a co-founder at a data-focused startup and a practitioner at game-focused teams, he has led ETL, data quality, API and dashboard work alongside feature engineering and model development for clients like EA and Supercell. He also teaches machine learning concepts and has contributed instructional decision-tree implementations to open-source educational material, demonstrating a knack for clear technical communication. Based in Berlin, Kutay gravitates toward productionized, scalable analytics pipelines and pragmatic ML that measurably improves user experience and monetization. An under-the-radar strength is his ability to straddle data engineering and modeling, ensuring insights are both robust and operational.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Industrial Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Industrial Engineering at Istanbul Technical University
Master's degree, Big Data Analytics, Master's degree, Big Data Analytics at MEF University
Turkish, English, German