Open to remote opportunities

Atalay Aygül

Data Scientist & AI/ML Engineer

LLM Agents · Computer Vision · Time-Series

Based in İzmir. I run operations at ATDERA — a London-positioned medical education and international patient coordination platform — and own its technical and AI side: an autonomous LLM-agent CRM, a 345-institution partner database across 45 countries, and the analytics stack end to end.

  • 25K+applicants — selected for the Google AI Academy scholarship
  • 99.4%accuracy of the FoliumCare disease-detection model
  • 45countries in the partner database I built and maintain
  • ~90%less time on weekly reporting after my Python automation

About

From support tickets to LLM agents.

Atalay Aygül smiling next to Mia, a small white dog
with Mia

I started writing code in a vocational high school web programming track, went on to an associate degree in computer programming at İskenderun Teknik University — graduating first in the department — and transferred to Dokuz Eylül University through the DGS exam to complete a bachelor's in computer science with a focus on machine learning and computer vision.

My senior project, FoliumCare, detects grapevine leaf disease from a single photo. Our team collected and labelled thousands of images in Manisa vineyards alongside an agricultural engineer, trained an Xception transfer-learning model to 99.4% accuracy, and shipped the full stack — FastAPI backend to Flutter app. It was selected first among all senior projects in the department.

In parallel I spent close to two years at Expeditors International, going from local IT support to a regional role covering 14 branches in 9 countries. The scripts I kept writing on the side — Python that cut a 2–3 hour weekly reporting cycle to 10–15 minutes — became my real job description. During the same period I was selected from 25,000+ applicants for the Google AI & Technology Academy scholarship and completed 250+ hours of hands-on training.

Since July 2026 I've been running operations at ATDERA, where I also own the technical and AI side of the business — an LLM-agent CRM that qualifies and reaches out to international leads, a 345-institution database across 45 countries, and the full analytics stack. I'm open to remote data science and AI/ML engineering roles.

Experience

Where I've been building

ATDERA

İzmir, Türkiye · Full-time · On-site

Jul 2026 — Present
  1. Manager

    Jul 2026 — Present

    Operations lead · owns the technical and AI side of the business

    • Lead operations for a London-positioned medical education and international patient coordination platform, while owning the technical and AI side of the business.
    • Designed and deployed an autonomous LLM-agent CRM that qualifies inbound international leads, drafts multilingual outreach (email, WhatsApp, call scripts) and routes them into the sales pipeline.
    • Built and maintain a 345-institution database across 45 countries and multiple surgical specialties, with CRM tracking and KPI dashboards used for partnership targeting.
    • Own the analytics stack end to end: funnel analysis, paid acquisition performance (Meta Ads), pricing benchmarking and cohort reporting.
    • Coordinate postgraduate medical training courses across dozens of countries — course directors, partner clinics, contracts and visa logistics — and manage a call-centre team and the lead-to-enrolment pipeline.

Expeditors International

İzmir, Türkiye · Full-time · On-site · 1 yr 9 mo

Nov 2024 — Jul 2026
  1. Global Tech Associate Specialist

    Jan 2026 — Jul 2026

    Promoted from Local I.S. Specialist to a regional role

    • Primary IT point of contact for 14 branches across 9 countries — managed incidents and requests in ServiceNow and routed complex cases to specialist teams.
    • Wrote Excel/VBA and Python automation scripts for business teams beyond the core support scope, and submitted process-improvement scripts to the development team.
    • Supported warehouse operations with custom tooling and data fixes.
  2. Service Provider Manager

    Oct 2025 — Jul 2026

    Concurrent role

    • Automated weekly performance scorecards for all freight departments (Ground, Air, Ocean) with custom Python — cut manual reporting from 2–3 hours to 10–15 minutes per cycle.
    • Managed service provider relationships and enforced operational performance standards against contractual KPIs.
    • Turned raw operational data into recurring reports used by department managers for provider reviews.
  3. Local I.S. Specialist

    Nov 2024 — Jan 2026
    • Hands-on IT support for 400+ users: system administration, Active Directory management and hardware/software troubleshooting — average ticket resolution around 10 minutes.
    • Started writing Excel and Python scripts for recurring operational tasks, which grew into the reporting automation work in later roles.

Google AI & Technology Academy

Remote · Full-time · 9 months

Dec 2024 — Aug 2025
  1. Scholarship Recipient — Data Science

    Dec 2024 — Aug 2025

    Selected from 25,000+ applicants nationwide

    • Programme run by Google together with the Turkish Ministry of Industry and Technology, the Presidency's Digital Transformation Office, T3 Foundation and TGV.
    • 250+ hours of hands-on training in TensorFlow, Vertex AI, BigQuery ML and the Gemini API.
    • Built and evaluated predictive models on real-world datasets across finance, healthcare and retail; competed in the graduation bootcamp, datathons and ideathons.

Earlier

  • Data Analyst Turnkey Health Tourism · İstanbul · Remote Jun 2024 — Sep 2024
  • IT Specialist Medent Academy Aug 2022 — Dec 2023
  • Software Engineer Intern RF 304 · Kayseri Jun 2020 — Aug 2020
  • Intern Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry · Hatay Jun 2019 — Sep 2019
  • Intern Hatay Metropolitan Municipality Sep 2016 — Jun 2017

Selected work

Projects & achievements

In production 2026

LLM-Agent CRM

Autonomous lead qualification & multilingual outreach — ATDERA

An autonomous LLM-agent system that qualifies inbound international leads, drafts outreach in the lead's language across email, WhatsApp and call scripts, and routes qualified leads into the sales pipeline. Sits on top of a 345-institution, 45-country database with CRM tracking and KPI dashboards.

  • LLM Agents
  • Python
  • CRM
  • KPI Dashboards
  • Multilingual Outreach
1st place 2025

FoliumCare

AI grapevine leaf disease detection — 99.4% accuracy

Classifies grapevine leaf disease from a single photo. Our team collected and labelled thousands of images in Manisa vineyards with an agricultural engineer, trained an Xception transfer-learning model to 99.4% accuracy with no observed overfitting, and served it through a FastAPI backend to a Flutter app — full pipeline from database to mobile UI. Selected first among all senior projects in the department.

  • Python
  • TensorFlow / Keras
  • Xception
  • OpenCV
  • FastAPI
  • Flutter
2nd place 2025

Datathon 2025

24-hour time-series challenge on U.S. hospital data

Second place among all teams in a 24-hour datathon organised by the DEU CS-AI community. Three of us worked a time-series dataset of U.S. hospital records — patient risk flags and multi-disease classification. Most of the value came from understanding what the series actually represented before modelling, then heavy feature engineering and model iteration under time pressure.

  • Time Series
  • Multi-label Classification
  • Pandas / NumPy
  • Scikit-learn
  • Feature Engineering
In progress 2026

Quantitative Analysis System

Deterministic sports-analytics pipeline with an LLM reasoning layer

A modular Python pipeline that turns raw match data into probabilistic recommendations: Selenium/BeautifulSoup scraping, Poisson and Dixon-Coles goal models on rolling xG, expected value and Kelly-criterion staking, and a structured JSON layer consumed by an LLM. The statistical layer stays deterministic and testable; the AI layer only interprets its output.

  • Python
  • SciPy
  • Poisson / Dixon-Coles
  • Kelly Criterion
  • Selenium
  • LLM

Education

Education

2021 — 2025

BSc, Computer Science

Dokuz Eylül University · İzmir

Focus on machine learning and computer vision. Senior project FoliumCare selected first in the department; 2nd place in Datathon 2025 with the DEU CS-AI community.

2018 — 2020

Associate's Degree, Computer Programming

İskenderun Teknik University (İSTE) · GPA 3.29

Graduated first in the department. Transferred to Dokuz Eylül University through DGS, the national vertical transfer exam.

2015 — 2017

Web Programming

Ali Sayar Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School

Where the coding started.

Credentials

Certifications

Google — Advanced Data Analytics track, Coursera

  • Google Advanced Data AnalyticsJul 2025 · U3ZJ9WLAHIOT
  • Foundations of Machine LearningMay 2025 · 8DJFF5S8OK2H
  • Regression Analysis: Simplify Complex Data RelationshipsMar 2025 · LOOGG86PDYRV
  • The Power of StatisticsMar 2025 · 6DFN51M46HZ8
  • Go Beyond the Numbers: Translate Data into InsightsMar 2025 · 4EIPZE85DV8D

Google AI & Technology Academy — Oyun ve Uygulama Akademisi

  • AI & Technology Academy Bootcamp CertificateAug 2025 · 55569141612452
  • Entrepreneurship Training CertificateAug 2025 · 47524452096134
  • English for Developers (YZTA)Aug 2025 · 35425832929674
  • Datathon CertificateMay 2025 · 81081331805071
  • YZTA 4.0 Ideathon CertificateMar 2025 · 16539053490122

Toolkit

What I work with

Languages

  • Python
  • SQL
  • Java
  • C#
  • C / C++

Machine Learning & AI

  • TensorFlow / Keras
  • PyTorch
  • Scikit-learn
  • OpenCV
  • LLM Agents
  • Computer Vision
  • Time Series
  • Deep Learning

Data & Analytics

  • Pandas
  • NumPy
  • SciPy
  • Feature Engineering
  • KPI Dashboards
  • Funnel & Cohort Analysis

Cloud & MLOps

  • Vertex AI
  • BigQuery ML
  • Gemini API
  • Google Colab
  • FastAPI
  • REST APIs

Tools & Platforms

  • Git
  • Flutter
  • Selenium
  • BeautifulSoup
  • Excel / VBA
  • ServiceNow
  • Active Directory
  • Meta Ads
  • CRM Systems

Professional

  • Operations Leadership
  • Team Management
  • Cross-functional Communication
  • Process Automation
  • Project Coordination

Off the clock

When I'm not shipping models

Chess Pattern recognition with a clock running. Find me on chess.com. chess.com/member/atalayaygul ↗
3D printing Designing and printing my own parts — the same iterate-measure-fix loop as training a model, just slower and with more plastic.

Contact

Let's talk.

I'm open to remote data science and AI/ML engineering roles, and happy to talk about anything involving LLM agents, computer vision, or messy operational data. For my full CV or a phone call, drop me an email.

İzmir, Türkiye · On-site, hybrid or remote