Summary
Tural Sadigov is a Senior Software Engineer and Staff Data Scientist with a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and over seven years of experience blending rigorous research, teaching, and production-grade ML/AI engineering. He builds scalable data platforms and ML systems—recently focusing on lakehouse architectures, Kubernetes-based deployments, and conversational AI for maritime operations—while maintaining deep hands-on expertise in R (tidyverse/tidymodels) and Python. A seasoned educator, he redesigned and taught multiple data science courses and created the R package stats2data, reflecting a commitment to reproducible teaching and tooling. His background in mathematical Olympiads and research on neural-network solutions for differential equations gives him an unusual ability to translate advanced theory into practical algorithms and production workflows. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he combines academic rigor with cloud-native engineering to deliver end-to-end data solutions.
5 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics at Indiana University Bloomington
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics at Boğaziçi University
English, Azerbaijani, Turkish