Summary
Murat Yalcin is a Staff Data Scientist based in Sunnyvale, CA with eight years of industry experience building production ML systems across retail, consumer devices, and industrial IoT. He progressed at Walmart Global Tech from Senior to Staff Data Scientist, leading projects such as product-type classification and extracting textual information from images, and has applied NLP expertise to voice-to-text work at Apple. His background includes predictive/preventive maintenance and churn modeling, grounded in a Master’s in Operations Research and a Bachelor’s in Industrial/Systems Engineering. A former military team lead, he brings disciplined leadership and systems-thinking to cross-functional ML delivery, often focusing on turning noisy real-world signals into robust, deployable models.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Industrial / Systems Engineering, Bachelor's degree Industrial / Systems Engineering at Turkish Military Academy
Master's degree Operations Research, Master's degree Operations Research at Naval Postgraduate School