My Work

4 years, 3 companies,
countless pipelines.

Publication OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology

Transcriptome-Based Machine Learning Models to Predict Antimicrobial Resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa ↗

Developed transcriptome-based machine learning models achieving up to 98.8% accuracy across four antibiotics using gene expression data from 414 clinical isolates.

DOI: 10.1177/15578100251408284
Jan 2026 — Present Istanbul, TR

Data Engineer @ Eczacıbaşı Sanipak

Leading data engineering operations during an enterprise carve-out following a company acquisition, alongside managing enterprise data infrastructure and pipeline automation.

  • Leading the end-to-end data migration and transition process for the company carve-out, migrating all data tools, pipelines, and workflows to the target infrastructure.
  • Designed and implemented Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for Apache Airflow using self-hosted agent pools.
  • Led the migration of DAGs from Airflow 2.10 to Airflow 3.1 with minimal downtime and high reliability.
  • Contributed to company-wide Data Governance by defining business glossaries and standardized business terms with stakeholders.
  • Participated in a SAP greenfield implementation project focusing on master data management and data consistency.
  • Developed data quality frameworks (freshness checks, row count validation, duplication detection, null ratio analysis, business rules).
Carve-out & Migration/ Airflow 3.1/ Azure DevOps/ Data Governance/ SAP MDM/ Python/ SQL
Jan 2025 — Jan 2026 Istanbul, TR

Data Engineer @ Penta Teknoloji — Yıldız Holding

Developed and maintained data pipelines for large-scale enterprise use cases across on-prem and cloud platforms, enabling real-time analytics and optimized decision-making.

  • Collaborated with Autodesk Product Group to deliver a real-time analytics solution contributing to a 1% increase in net income.
  • Built and maintained complex, business-rule-driven data pipelines for the MSI Sales Team.
  • Designed ETL/ELT pipelines across on-prem (SSIS, Airflow) and Azure/Fabric cloud environments with high availability.
Azure / Fabric/ Airflow/ SSIS/ ETL/ELT/ Real-time Analytics
Apr 2024 — Jan 2025 Istanbul, TR

Data Analyst @ Penta Teknoloji — Yıldız Holding

Delivered analytics and BI solutions across multiple business domains, enabling data-driven decision-making through secure and well-modeled reporting layers.

  • Developed end-to-end Power BI dashboards across finance, risk, marketing, sales, logistics, inventory, and business development.
  • Implemented row-level security (RLS) policies to ensure controlled and role-based data access.
Power BI/ DAX/ Data Modeling/ RLS
Aug 2023 — Nov 2023 Jena, DE

Data Science Intern (Erasmus+) @ Leibniz Institute on Aging (FLI)

Research-focused internship in AI in Microbiome and Aging Research Group, combining transcriptomics data analysis with modern machine learning architectures.

  • Conducted literature reviews on transcriptomics datasets related to aging and sepsis to understand microbial content in blood.
  • Presented advanced machine learning methods (Liquid Neural Networks, Autoencoders) during journal club sessions.
Python/ Machine Learning/ Transcriptomics/ Bioinformatics/ Autoencoders