Boran Kahraman

Data Scientist & Scrum Master @ Türkiye İş Bankası | B.Sc. in AI & Data Engineering

Istanbul, Türkiye

About

AI and Data Engineering graduate from Istanbul Technical University with hands-on experience in machine learning, data science, and applied AI. Skilled in developing and deploying AI systems across creative media, speech technologies, and financial services. Served as a Scrum Master, facilitating Agile practices and driving team productivity, while also taking on leadership responsibilities to align technical delivery with business goals. Focused on building a career that combines technical expertise with leadership to deliver impactful, real-world solutions.

Experience

  • Data Scientist at Türkiye İş Bankası
    Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

    - Developed an AI-powered creative agency using FLUX for image generation and editing, tailored for marketing use cases such as social media and websites. The solution is actively utilized by marketing departments—including Private Banking, SME Banking, and Personal Banking—producing over 300 campaign images per week. - Built and deployed a React TypeScript frontend for the Voice Platform, enabling internal teams to generate and test TTS/STT outputs directly, now used as part of the platform’s production workflow. - Collaborating on training and testing of AI Voice Platform for Turkish that serves API endpoints for both text to speech and speech to text applications in the Bank. - Facilitating Agile ceremonies as a Scrum Master. Therefore, maintaining the productivity and agility of the team.

  • Business Analyst at Deloitte
    Sep 2024 - Oct 2024 · 2 mos

    - Detailed market research on open source LLM's and on-premise server configurations to host them for proposing a suitable solution for clients.

  • Data Scientist at Hepsiburada
    Jun 2023 - Jun 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

    - Applied a S-Bert model to enhance the performance recommendation system - Used LLMs to tag the brand and model of the product - Designed dashboards for monitoring via LookersStudio - Written extensive SQL queries to enhance performance recommendation system - LTV prediction model - User behavior analysis via using SQL - Created an extensive documentation for the recommendation system

  • Undergraduate Student NLP Researcher at İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi
    Dec 2021 - Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos

    - Local Citation Recommendation model for Turkish using BM25 and SciNCL - Movie Search Engine that works with text inputs and retrieves relevant movies based on the input

  • Data Science & Business Analytics Intern at Turkcell
    Aug 2022 - Sep 2022 · 2 mos

    - ⁠Morphological Analysis for text queries using Zeyrek library - Written a python script to organize and transform excel files