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I am a Lead AI Engineer with over nine years of experience designing and delivering fast, scalable, and explainable AI/ML solutions across consultancy, industrial, and R&D settings, delivering tangible business impact in sectors like Energy, e-Commerce, Telecom, and Finance. I thrive in matrixed environments, leading cross-functional teams to turn complex business problems into data-driven successes while staying focused on explainability and business outcomes. My current work centers on agentic AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), exploring how autonomous agents can reason, collaborate, and tackle complex challenges. I hold a Bachelor's in Engineering Mathematics from Istanbul Technical University and a Master’s in Data Science from Dublin Business School, and I’m passionate about evolving AI capabilities in alignment with real-world needs.…I am a Lead AI Engineer with over nine years of experience designing and delivering fast, scalable, and explainable AI/ML solutions across consultancy, industrial, and R&D settings, delivering tangible business impact in sectors like Energy, e-Commerce, Telecom, and Finance. I thrive in matrixed environments, leading cross-functional teams to turn complex business problems into data-driven successes while staying focused on explainability and business outcomes. My current work centers on agentic AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), exploring how autonomous agents can reason, collaborate, and tackle complex challenges. I hold a Bachelor's in Engineering Mathematics from Istanbul Technical University and a Master’s in Data Science from Dublin Business School, and I’m passionate about evolving AI capabilities in alignment with real-world needs.

Eren Aktas

AI Engineer, Data Scientist, AI Developer, +2

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I am a Lead AI Engineer with over nine years of experience designing and delivering fast, scalable, and explainable AI/ML solutions across consultancy, industrial, and R&D settings, delivering tangible business impact in sectors like Energy, e-Commerce, Telecom, and Finance. I thrive in matrixed environments, leading cross-functional teams to turn complex business problems into data-driven successes while staying focused on explainability and business outcomes. My current work centers on agentic AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), exploring how autonomous agents can reason, collaborate, and tackle complex challenges. I hold a Bachelor's in Engineering Mathematics from Istanbul Technical University and a Master’s in Data Science from Dublin Business School, and I’m passionate about evolving AI capabilities in alignment with real-world needs.…I am a Lead AI Engineer with over nine years of experience designing and delivering fast, scalable, and explainable AI/ML solutions across consultancy, industrial, and R&D settings, delivering tangible business impact in sectors like Energy, e-Commerce, Telecom, and Finance. I thrive in matrixed environments, leading cross-functional teams to turn complex business problems into data-driven successes while staying focused on explainability and business outcomes. My current work centers on agentic AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), exploring how autonomous agents can reason, collaborate, and tackle complex challenges. I hold a Bachelor's in Engineering Mathematics from Istanbul Technical University and a Master’s in Data Science from Dublin Business School, and I’m passionate about evolving AI capabilities in alignment with real-world needs.

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I am a Lead AI Engineer with over nine years of experience designing and delivering fast, scalable, and explainable AI/ML solutions across consultancy, industrial, and R&D settings, delivering tangible business impact in sectors like Energy, e-Commerce, Telecom, and Finance. I thrive in matrixed environments, leading cross-functional teams to turn complex business problems into data-driven successes while staying focused on explainability and business outcomes. My current work centers on agentic AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), exploring how autonomous agents can reason, collaborate, and tackle complex challenges. I hold a Bachelor’s in Engineering Mathematics from Istanbul Technical University and a Master’s in Data Science from Dublin Business School, and I’m passionate about evolving AI capabilities in alignment with real-world needs.

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Lead AI Engineer / Data Scientist at Mastercard AI Center of Excellence

January 1, 2022 - Present

Leading the design and delivery of scalable AI systems with measurable financial impact. Responsible for end-to-end AI product lifecycle from requirements through deployment, leveraging CI/CD, Agile/Scrum, and big data. Currently building Agentic AI applications with LLMs, including prompt engineering, RAG, and fine-tuning. Productionalizing R&D efforts using Databricks, Azure, MLflow, and Nvidia tools; collaborating with cross-functional teams; coaching and growing engineers; deploying automated, trackable deployment concepts; evaluating state-of-the-art ML/DL algorithms; contributing to high-impact projects (e.g., Fraud Detection). Working with graph-based data (TigerGraph) and Graph Neural Networks to discover connected data insights.

Research Fellow / Lead Data Scientist at CeADAR

January 1, 2022 - October 15, 2025

Translating AI innovation ideas into practical solutions for Irish industry. Managed innovation vouchers with TuDublin and UCD Hothouse to develop regional industrial AI applications. Led high-impact, state-of-the-art AI projects across BioInformatics, Retail, and more, delivered using Agile/Scrum, and deployed on Google Cloud with Docker, Kubernetes, and GitLab. Notable projects included an Unsupervised DL Anomaly Detection tool, Person Detection & Tracking on overhead cameras, and a Procurement NLP Interface using ElasticSearch and spaCy.

Sr. Data Scientist at Aristalytics

January 1, 2020 - October 15, 2025

Delivered high-impact data science projects for diverse clients, collaborating with BI teams on ETL and dimensional modelling, performing feature engineering, and building NLP classifiers for customer service use cases. Built end-to-end solutions including churn analysis and customer segmentation for banking and telecom sectors, with data visualization to communicate insights to stakeholders.

Sr. Data Scientist at SOCAR Energy Group

October 1, 2019 - October 15, 2025

Drove digital transformation initiatives by gathering sensor data from Scada-PLC systems, ABB cloud, and SAP environments; performed feature engineering on sensor data, built ML/DL models, and delivered insights via batch visualizations for engineers. Focus areas included IIoT-driven optimization, predictive maintenance, environmental and performance optimization, and research into data science-driven energy solutions.

SAP Data & Integration Analyst at N11.com

June 1, 2017 - October 15, 2025

Implemented and modified SAP Process Orchestration (PO) modules using SAP NetWeaver PO 7.5, ABAP, Java, and adapters (RFC, SOAP, REST). Analyzed and controlled data in integrations via Oracle SQL and ABAP. Managed end-to-end SAP integrations and associated SAP developments in PO/BI/BW/FI/CO/MM/Fiori/HANA, collaborating with related SAP consultants.

Financial Data Analyst at Odifin Strategy Consultancy

June 1, 2016 - October 15, 2025

Analyzed risk management and fixed income securities data using SQL and Excel Add-ins; validated data and statistical calculations; provided consulting on financial software solutions (BondGround, RiskGround, Performance Attribution).

SAP PI Consultant at Vektora Information Tech.

June 1, 2015 - October 15, 2025

Implemented and modified SAP/Non-SAP integration configuration using SAP NetWeaver PI 7.1, ABAP, Java, and adapters including IDoc, File, RFC, and SOAP. Responsible for data flow monitoring, administration, and reporting between systems, in collaboration with SAP consultants.