Umar Igan
Data Scientist
Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolUmar Igan is a data scientist with 8 years of experience and 5+ years focused on building and deploying machine learning solutions across CV, NLP, regression and classification problems. Based in Istanbul, he has delivered end-to-end systems—from OCR and recommendation engines to rare-event accident prediction—combining robust feature engineering, ensembling and production pipelines on AWS/GCP. He’s experienced in Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch and scikit-learn, and has practical MLOps skills (ETL, DBT, Flask, SQL/NoSQL) for turning models into reliable products. Umar also works with generative AI (LLM, TTS, VLM) including fine-tuning and evaluation, and maintains popular LLM models on Hugging Face with 30k+ downloads. A Kaggle Notebook Expert, he brings a data-driven mindset and an aptitude for squeezing signal from imbalanced or noisy datasets to improve real-world business metrics.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Program Data Science, Certificate Program Data Science at Özyeğin UniversityMaster's degree Data Science, Master's degree Data Science at Koç UniversityLisans Derecesi Mühendislik Fiziği/Uygulamalı Fizik, Lisans Derecesi Mühendislik Fiziği/Uygulamalı Fizik at Gaziantep Üniversitesi
Turkish, İngilizce
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (86)
nlp10
sdk9
transformer9
python9
deep-learning9
foundation-models9
pytorch9
machine-learning9
bert9
speech-recognition9
natural-language-processing9
tensorflow9
gtmetrix8
language-model8
python-client8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
UmarIgan/Python-Code-Collection
Apr 2018 - Apr 2023
Contributions:26 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 1 month
UmarIgan/Machine-Learning
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:46 commits, 93 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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