# Nuri TAŞ

Ankara / Türkiye | +90 5382690880 | [mail@nuritas.tr](mailto:mail@nuritas.tr) | [linkedin.com/in/nuri-tas](https://linkedin.com/in/nuri-tas)

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## Professional Experience

### Udemy
**Data Scientist** · Product Analytics, Payments · Ankara, Türkiye (Hybrid) · Sep 2025 – Present

- Own the data and analytics portfolio for Udemy's marketplace checkout and consumer subscriptions, covering money-in payments across enterprise-scale processors (Stripe, Adyen, PayPal, dLocal, UPI) and money-out instructor payouts, tracking KPIs aligned with company OKRs using Databricks and Amplitude
- Drive subscription analytics for 400K+ monthly active subscribers, monitoring subscription and payment health, identifying churn drivers, and building retention prediction frameworks using Databricks
- Design and run A/B tests and experimentation frameworks, leveraging AWS for power analysis and Tableau for detailed experiment evaluation, to measure the impact of checkout and payment experience changes on conversion and revenue
- Develop GenAI/LLM-based automation to streamline reporting processes and build agentic workflows for day-to-day analytics operations, reducing manual effort across the team
- Tech Stack: Databricks, Tableau, AWS, Python

### Turkish Presidency Human Resources Office
**Data Analyst** · Ankara, Türkiye · Oct 2022 – May 2025

- Enhanced the core data architecture of Turkey's national HR system by designing and implementing robust ETL pipelines to integrate and harmonize datasets from 5 key government agencies using Python, R, and SQL
- Built a 25-year historical dataset of national skill demand by engineering an end-to-end pipeline to scrape 2M+ job postings and classify 15M+ skills using OECD-aligned taxonomies
- Owned the development of a large-scale academic research database to benchmark national research output, consolidating 8M+ publications and enriching them with journal indexing (Scimago) and impact factors
- Contributed to Üni-Veri, a national analytics platform surfacing department-level employment outcomes such as salary, time-to-employment, placement rate, and qualification match to guide university candidates
- Engineered data visualization solutions across multiple technologies for national-level projects:
  - Delivered R Shiny dashboards as part of the national Human Resources Inventory System
  - Built Streamlit and React dashboards to analyze labor market outcomes of university and vocational graduates

### Oz Botanical Inc.
**Business Analyst (Remote)** · Boulder, Colorado, USA · Jun 2020 – Jan 2023

- Oversaw the company's financial reporting processes and led the complex trademark acquisition for CBD products in Turkey, the [US](https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/search/search-results/79975673), and worldwide ([WIPO](https://branddb.wipo.int/en/brand/WO500000001579357)), successfully securing trademarks in these key markets

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## Education

### Bilkent University
**Bachelor of Arts in Economics** · Ankara, Türkiye · 2018 – 2023

- GPA: 3.43 | Comprehensive Scholarship (tuition + monthly stipend)
- **Coursework:** Programming in Python, Business Analytics, Data Analysis for Social Sciences, Management Science, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Probability and Statistics

### Goethe University — Erasmus Exchange Program
**Concentration in Data Analytics** · Frankfurt, Germany · 2022

- **Coursework:** Data Science and Marketing Analytics, Econometric Forecasting, Analysis of Financial Time Series

### Ege University
**Dentistry** · Izmir, Türkiye · 2016 – 2018

- Dropped out after 2 years — pivoted to economics, then discovered data along the way

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## Personal Projects

### SPL Hazırlık — [splhazirlik.com](https://splhazirlik.com)
AI-Powered E-Learning Platform for SPL Licensing Exams

- Developed a free AI-driven SPL study platform using Gemini AI with batch processing to generate a 30k+ question bank, offering personalized analytics and performance tracking — available on web, Android, and iOS
- Tech Stack: Go, PostgreSQL, React, React Native, Gemini AI

### Borsa Terminal — [borsaterminal.com](https://borsaterminal.com)
Advanced Terminal for BIST

- Engineered an advanced financial terminal for analyzing both real-time and historical BIST market data, powered by real-time AI analysis of broker activity, settlement, and order book data in a consolidated interface
- Tech Stack: Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Svelte, TypeScript, Gemini AI

### TradeVista — [trade.nuritas.tr](https://trade.nuritas.tr)
Full-Stack Trading Application

- Built a full-stack multi-asset trading application for global markets (crypto, forex, stocks & derivatives), featuring performance monitoring for algorithmic trading bots, real-time AI analysis, and API-based order execution
- Tech Stack: Go, Python, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, Gemini AI, Telegram API

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## Achievements

- Ranked 970th in the Nationwide University Entrance Exam (among approximately 2 million candidates) (2018)
- Summer Work and Travel Program, New York - USA (2019)

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## Skills

**Languages:** Turkish (Native), English (Advanced - YDS: 87.5/100, 2023)

**Technical:** Python (Proficient), Go, TypeScript, R | FastAPI, Svelte, React, React Native, Protobuf, Gemini AI, PostgreSQL, R Shiny, Streamlit, Tableau

**Interests:** Data Analysis, AI Technologies and Agents, MCP Tools, Financial Technologies, Open-source Intelligence