Alper AYDIN

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Albert Einstein

EXPERIENCE

Analytics Discipline Leader
Data Science Manager, Python Instructor

Garanti BBVA

İstanbul, Turkey

2020/10-Present

Responsible for identifying analytical requirements of enterprise line of businesses, developing and leading solutions with businesss and technology teams.
  • 360 Customer View
  • Account Planning
  • Customer Potential Estimation
  • Long-term Service Model & Product Simulations
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Benchmark Analysis
  • Customer Segmentation & Lifetime Value
  • Customer Network Analysis
  • Churn & Propensity Models
  • Price Sensitivity
Data Scientist

Akbank T.A.Ş.

İstanbul, Turkey

2019/09-2020/09

  • Customer Money Transfers Prediction on Mobile Banking App
  • POS Logs Anomaly Detection
  • Complaint Classification using NLP
  • Fraudster Detection using Face Recognition
  • Customer Network Analysis
Akbank Artificial Intelligence Community Founder

Akbank T.A.Ş.

İstanbul, Turkey

2018/09-2020/09

  • Community Founder
  • Organizing meetings and workshop events with AI vendors
  • Akbank AI Lab and Organizational Structure Advisory
  • Instructor on AI and Machine Learning
  • AI Project Workshops
Senior Data Advisor & Data Quality Manager

Akbank T.A.Ş.

İstanbul, Turkey

2018/01-2020/09

  • Data Advisor for Customer and Analytics Domains
  • Data Quality Management Modeling
  • Data Quality Database Modeling
  • Data Quality Rule Analysis
  • Root Cause analysis using Advanced Analytics
  • Data Quality for AI & ML
Sales & Maketing Analytics Manager, Data Owner

Akbank T.A.Ş.

İstanbul, Turkey

2012/11-2018/01

  • Enterprise Datamart design and maintenance
  • ETL and Dashboard design
  • SME Sales and Analytics Portal full stack development
  • 3rd party data entegration (BKM, GIB)
  • Next product to buy modeling
  • Customer churn modeling
  • Customer visit optimization using geocoding
  • Credit approvement process design
  • Norm optimization and demand forecasting
  • Target optimization using time series and seasonality
  • Price optimization, simulation application
Operations Management Manager

Akbank T.A.Ş.

Istanbul, Turkey

2008/04-2012/11

  • Operations and Sales Coaching
  • Norm optimization and demand forecasting
  • Analytical reporting and visualization development
  • Gamification design for teller sales
Earlier

Akbank T.A.Ş.

Antalya, Turkey

2004/04-2012/11

  • Operations Management Manager, 2008-2012
  • Administrative officer, 2005-2008
  • Teller, 2004-2005

EDUCATION

MSc in Data Analytics

Sabanci Univ.,
Istanbul, Turkey

2018:2019

3.85

Projects:
  • Text Mining
  • Time Series Analysis
  • Credit Default Prediction
  • Image Processing
  • Spam Classification
  • Optimization
  • Big Data Querying
  • AI Blocks Solver

MSc in Informatics

O.D.T.U.
Ankara, Turkey

2010:2012

3.50

Projects:
  • Data Mining
  • Predictive Analysis
  • Multithread File Transfer
  • Text Mining

BA in Management

Akdeniz Unv
Antalya, Turkey

1996:2002

3.05

  • Financial Accounting
  • Investment Project Analysis
  • Economy and Management
  • Statistics

TIMELINE

SKILLS

Python C# R SQL Tensorflow SkLearn Keras   Pandas Network Analysis Web Crawling Data Visualization HTML CSS LSTM RNN REST Dashboard Data Quality Data Governance
 
 
 

CERTIFICATES

  • Data Science & Machine Learning Bootcamp(link)Veri Bilimi OkuluDec 2021
  • Reinforcement Learning (MAPEK9Z6CAGG)CourseraMar 2020
  • Python for Data Science (3390986)DataCampJuly 2018
  • Neural Nets and Deep Learning (KSCG4P9V7FJT)CourseraJuly 2018
  • Big Data Analytics and Finance Sector Bilge Adam AcademyDec 2016
  • R Programming (9CVXE4Y7TX) CourseraAug 2015
  • Data Science Toolkit (VFVUCY5DAA) CourseraJuly 2015
  • SAS Querying and ReportingSAS TurkeyJuly 2014

HOBBIES

Piano Guitar Photography Microcontrolers