Atilla Guzel

DATA SCIENTIST · FATHER · TRAVELER · atiguz@gmail.com

I am a self-managing person. I thrive and honestly living for learning things that matters. I appreciate the true value of genuine contribution. I believe excellence and honesty are destined to be distinguished and therefore worthy endeavours.


Experience

Director, Data Scientist

Nimbous Ltd · UK

Founder of Nimbous Ltd. Delivering contracted or consultancy basis advanced data analytics services. Implemented projects on Python, Tableau, Google Analytics and GCP

October 2018 - Present

Co-founder, Director

Lifeium Ltd · UK

Lifeium.app is the ultimate wealth management platform for the new generation. Leveraging technologies such as AI, designed to deliver premium legal, social and financial services with basic costs.

June 2018 - Present

Second Secretary, Analyst, Expert

Prime Ministry, Ministry of Foreign Affairs · Turkey

Duties and skills involved:

  • Enhanced analytical and critical thinking skills including synthesis of large amounts of information
  • Ability to work in intensive work conditions; data wrangling and intuition skills for time-sensitive and strategic tasks
  • Fluent communicator; briefings, debriefings and data visualisation to senior officials and policymakers
  • Cross-cultural awareness; good understanding of working in an international community for the shared goals
  • Diplomacy, liaison, participate in negotiations and development of constructive dialogue with different parties for meaningful outcomes; supervisory skills including supervision of multilateral meetings, facilitating high level delegations
  • Coordinating strategic communication and translating strategy into tangible capability plans
  • July 2007 - September 2017

    Intern

    NATO HQ · BELGIUM

    My internship at NATO HQ Office of Security (NOS) Policy Oversight Branch has provided me with better understanding of working in an international community for the shared goals. Responsibilities involved: Being part of the workshop tasked to revise NATO Security Advancebook for Ministerials, NATO Information Management Policy, also joining the learning environment of the NATO community.

    February 2007 - July 2007

    Education

    Bologna Business School, University of Bologna

    Master of Science in Data Science

    Course Work: Hadoop, NoSQL, Python, R, SAS, Tableau, SPSS, MySQL, Indyco | Descriptive and Inferential Statistics | Exploratory Data Analysis | Data Mining | Machine Learning (SVM, ANN, TensorFlow) | Linear Predictive Models | Data Science (supervised and unsupervised learning, probabilistic modelling) | Information Retrieval | Time Series Analysis | Big Data (Hadoop, Spark, Hive, NoSQL) | Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing | Customer, Marketing, and Operation Analytics | Social Data Science | Text Mining

    January 2018 - Present

    Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

    Oxford FinTech Programme

    Oxford Fintech Programme is an enrolment programme on financial technology and innovation, to identify opportunities for disruption in the financial services sector. It is designed and delivered around the concept of two approaches to fintech innovation: a business plan to pitch a specific fintech disruption or an innovation roadmap to explore possibilities. I was given opportunity to develop a holistic understanding of the stream I chose and collaborated with a team towards a business plan around a fintech idea.

    November 2017 - March 2018

    University of Bilkent

    Bachelor of Science in Management

    Competencies and Interests: Management Science | Calculus | Linear Algebra | Probability and Statistics | Accounting | Marketing Strategy


    The Quacquarelli Symonds World University rankings report for 2016-17 lists Bilkent University as Turkey’s highest-ranked university. For undergraduate studies, Bilkent University Faculty of Business Administration is accepting applicants only with the highest scores in equal-weight score type in the university placement exams.

    September 1999 - May 2004

    Skills

    Python
    • Core Libraries: Python Standard, Pandas, NumPy (9/10)
    • Viz Libraries: Matplotlib, Seaborn, Bokeh, Plotly, Dash (9/10)
    • Scraping Libraries: Scrapy, Requests, Beautiful Soup, lxml (9/10)
    • ML and NLP Libraries: Scikit-Learn, Keras, TensorFlow, NLTK (9/10)

    Statistical Analysis and Visualization
    • R (7/10)
    • WEKA (9/10)
    • SAS Studio, SAS Viya (7/10)
    • Tableau (8/10)

    Big Data & Cloud
    • Hadoop (6/10)
    • Spark, Databricks (6/10)
    • AWS (6/10) & Google Cloud Platform (8/10)

    Query
    • SQL (7/10)
    • Access (7/10)
    • NoSQL (5/10)

    Computer Skills, Office & Web Tools, Design & Language
    • Operating Systems & Command Tools: OSX, Linux, Microsoft (10/10), SSH (8/10)
    • Office Tools: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, G Suite (10/10)
    • Web Tools: HTML, CSS, Wordpress (9/10)
    • Design & Prototyping: Illustrator, Proto.io (8/10)
    • Language: English (IELTS Score 8/9), Turkish (Mother Tongue)

    People Skills & Bonus Skills
    • Creativity | Self-motivation | Adaptability | Communication
    • Ability to read and reconstruct business problems within the Machine Learning, Data Mining and Statistical modelling frameworks
    • Worked in the projects of clustering, classification, regression, affinity analysis, viusalization, PMS, digital marketing
    • Strong background in quantitative analysis and proven skills in mathematics

    Interests

    Apart from being a data scientist, I value most of my time being father and home-school teacher of my two little ones. I enjoy biking, gardening, and photography. Since my childhood either voluntarily or involuntarily I'm traveling a lot and I kinda like it. We are all nomad travelers sailing this giant ship anyway.

    I am a minimalist. I spend large amount of my free time exploring the latest technology advancements in the IoT and mobile industries, front-end web development and minimalist design. Altough my livelihoods is not depend on trading, I am an individual investor as well.


    Honors, Awards & Certifications

    • Certification - DataCamp Python Programming Track (2018)
    • Certification - DataCamp Deep Learning in Python (2018)
    • Certification - Udemy Tableau (2018)
    • Certification - Udemy Python Beginner to Advance (2018)

    • Certificate of Achievement - Awarded 3 times by the Undersecretary (2010, 2010, 2013)
    • Certificate of Achievement - Awarded by NATO Office of Security (2007)

    • 226th Place - Among 129,986 applicants in the LES (Nationwide examination for graduate studies held by OSYM) examination at Equally-Weighted (Quantitative-Verbal) branch (2004)
    • 12th Place - In the OYS (nationwide university placement examination held by OSYM. 1,359,579 students applied this exam in 1998) examination at Equally-Weighted (Quantitative-Verbal) branch (1998)

    • Tuition Scholarship - Awarded by Commune di Bologna (2018)
    • Full Scholarship - Awarded by Bilkent University (1998-2004)