PROFESSIONAL PROFILE · OPEN TO SENIOR & LEAD ROLES

Dr. Suat Atan — Senior Data Scientist & Applied AI Leader

Senior data scientist and AI leader with 15+ years of experience delivering RAG, NLP, machine-learning and data-platform solutions across regulated industries and international organizations.

I turn ambiguous business problems into deployable AI and data systems. My work spans enterprise RAG, NLP, forecasting, data platforms and agentic workflows—with a consistent focus on reliability, adoption and measurable value.

My GitHub contains earlier public projects and technical experiments; recent enterprise work is primarily in private repositories.

Experience15+ years in AI, data and enterprise software
ResearchPhD in text mining · NLP postdoc in Italy
AvailabilityAnkara-based · Remote North America & Europe

Current work

I lead applied AI, NLP, data-engineering and forecasting engagements through Ontario Bilişim ve Danışmanlık Ltd. Şti.. I also contribute to institutional AI and software initiatives at Turkey’s Agriculture and Rural Development Support Institution and work as a senior expert on international food-loss and waste measurement programs.

My recent work includes building enterprise knowledge systems, designing AI-assisted organizational workflows, leading multidisciplinary technical teams and helping data-science groups move from generative-AI concepts to production-ready applications.

Selected recent impact

Enterprise RAG

Regulatory knowledge assistant

Led a 10-person Bosphorus AI team delivering a regulation-focused RAG assistant for Türkiye’s Pension Monitoring Center.

AI Enablement

Gemini and RAG training

Trained ING Türkiye’s 30-person data-science team through hands-on scenarios covering Gemini AI, RAG architecture and application delivery.

International Data

Food loss and waste intelligence

Co-developed an IOFS program spanning 53 countries, 87 product types and 56,376 country-year-product combinations, alongside a digital platform and AI agent.

Forecasting

Energy decision systems

Developing forecasting and data solutions for Aras, Başkent and Dicle electricity-distribution organizations.

Experience that travels across industries

From 2022 to January 2026, I worked with Canada-based VectorSolv as an employee and later as a contractor, delivering data pipelines, analytics and NLP/LLM workflows for North American automotive warranty and insurance operations. The work involved Azure, SQL, APIs, Git/Docker practices and production systems used by distributed business teams.

Earlier and parallel engagements have covered banking, energy, universities, public institutions and international organizations. Examples include hate-speech web scraping and text analytics for Kadir Has University, enterprise AI work for regulated institutions, and decision-support systems for operational teams.

Technical focus

PythonSQLRRAG & LLM applicationsAgentic workflowsNLPMachine learningForecastingSemantic searchInformation extractionAzure & AWSDatabricks & SparkPostgreSQL · MSSQL · MongoDBDocker & CI/CDPower BI & Streamlit

Education, teaching and public work

My original training is in civil engineering. I later completed an MBA and a PhD in Engineering focused on text mining, followed by postdoctoral NLP research at the University of Turin. I have taught network analysis at graduate level and authored or edited books on Python, R, Google App Engine and network analysis.

I also created FYLARK, an accessible coding and AI-learning initiative for young people with dyslexia, and publish two newsletters: Verimlilik Bülteni in Turkish and 3000 Days in English.

FOR RECRUITERS & HIRING TEAMS

Looking for a senior data scientist or applied-AI lead?

I am open to conversations about senior and lead roles in data science, machine learning, applied AI and AI platforms—particularly work that combines technical leadership with production delivery.

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