Yusuf Berki
YAZICIOĞLU

Lead Data Scientist AI Engineer Entrepreneur

7+ Years in AI/ML
17+ Years in Development

Things I've Built

/ Professional & Freelance

ESTEL

ACTIVE

ESTEL

Head of Data Science / Founder Engineer

AI-Powered Lead Generation for Tech Staffing. Transforms sourcing hours into ranked, ready-to-close opportunities with verified buyer matching.

StockAIvisor

DEPLOYED

StockAIvisor

Founder Engineer

AI-powered stock analysis platform with roboadvisor and price prediction. Auto-scaling on Azure, led team of 3 engineers for 2 years.

Traick

DEPLOYED

Traick

MLOps Engineer

Healthcare AI project deployed on AWS. GPU-accelerated Python backend, .NET backend, React frontend.

SignForDeaf

DEPLOYED

Engelsiz Çeviri (SignForDeaf)

Lead Data Scientist & Backend Developer

Sign language translation app serving 1.6M+ users across 40+ corporate clients (banks, airlines, municipalities).

CranioCatch

DEPLOYED

CranioCatch

Data Scientist

Dental AI for tooth and palate disease detection. Trained on 4TB+ imagery, achieved 97% accuracy. 20+ academic publications.

PDATA

DEPLOYED

PDATA

Lead Data Scientist & Backend Developer

Automated ML platform commercialized with major clients including cement company with $10B market cap. 200+ models across 35 industrial projects.

~ Personal Projects

Egolio

CLOSED

Egolio

Founder & Developer

Social platform for consumable content—movies, series, games, books. Complex recommendation algorithms, timeline systems, big data architecture.

Streamlit JWT Authenticator

OPEN SOURCE

Streamlit JWT Authenticator

Developer

Open-source library for JWT authentication in Streamlit apps. 5,000+ developers reached.

Where I've Worked

Estel Technologies Sep 2025 — Present

Head of Data Science · Remote, Bulgaria

  • Building an agentic lead generation platform with multi-step LLM workflows over LinkedIn and third-party data.
  • Defining evaluation, tracing, monitoring, and rollout standards for production LLM agents.
BlackPeak Technologies Jul 2023 — Sep 2025

Lead / Sr. Data Scientist · Remote, Bulgaria

  • Led a 5-person data science team, setting standards for LLM evaluation, observability, and AWS delivery.
  • Shipped RAG, skill-matching, fraud, churn, and cost-modeling systems tied to measurable business outcomes.
  • Partnered with leadership on AI strategy, client presentations, hiring, and internal agentic-system workshops.
TFI TAB Food Investments Jul 2022 — Jul 2023

Data Scientist · Remote, Türkiye

  • Built price optimization and demand forecasting systems for 2,700+ Burger King and Popeyes restaurants.
  • Delivered courier-supply and turnover forecasts on AWS with bias and drift monitoring for daily operations.
Akıllı Çeviri Bilişim A.Ş. Nov 2019 — Jun 2022

Lead / Sr. Data Scientist · Remote, Türkiye

  • Led data science across AutoML, sign-language translation, and industrial AI products serving 1.6M+ users.
  • Scaled PDATA to 200+ models across 35 industrial projects, including commercialization with Oyak Cement.
  • Built production data and MLOps foundations with Kafka, Airflow, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and AWS.
Nevisoft Bilişim Teknolojileri Jun 2018 — Nov 2019

Data Scientist · Remote, Türkiye

  • Built CNN-LSTM sign-language translation, raising accuracy from 60% to 94% and supporting $1M+ funding.
  • Developed CranioCatch dental AI and delivered churn prediction for a 10M+ customer insurance portfolio.

Talks & Presentations

AI-TECH Talk Google Developer Student Club Dumlupınar • YouTube
Mar 2021
AI Applications in the Business World Digital Transformation Summit • İstanbul, Türkiye
Sep 2019

Blog & Articles

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