Utku Arık
Data Science Team Lead
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolUtku Arık is a Data Science Team Lead in Istanbul with eight years of hands-on experience building and deploying machine learning and deep learning solutions across e-commerce and consulting environments. He has advanced expertise in computer vision and NLP, leading production initiatives at Trendyol and earlier delivering product unification, recommendation and budget-optimization models at CicekSepeti and Deloitte. His academic background in industrial and computer engineering informs a strong grounding in agent-based simulation, network theory and operational research, enabling him to bridge research concepts with business impact. Known for shipping end-to-end systems—model development, REST API integration and scalable deployment—he combines practical MLOps skills with research curiosity. An interesting facet of his profile is the blend of simulation teaching experience and applied deep learning, which supports rigorous experimental design in production ML systems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Universitat Politècnica de ValènciaMaster of Science - MS, Industrial Engineering(Operation Research), 3.71, Master of Science - MS, Industrial Engineering(Operation Research), 3.71 at Sabanci University87,58, 87,58 at Izmir Fen LisesiMaster of Science - MS, Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi University
Turkish, İngilizce, İspanyolca
Github Skills (7)
heroku-deployment8
web-application7
webapp7
python6
machine-learning5
streamlit5
data-science4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
utkuarik/machine_learning_webapp
Jan 2020 - Mar 2023
Streamlit Web Application for Machine Learning
Contributions:25 commits, 1 PR, 26 pushes in 3 years 1 month
pythondata-scienceweb-applicationmachine-learningstreamlit
utkuarik/Ising_like_model
Feb 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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