Data Scientist · Necromancer
Burak Suyunu
Builds machine learning and optimization models, bringing methods from research into production.
Worked on model development for the Çimsa and MMK optimization projects.
Projects
Çimsa
Çimsa S&OP: from global network optimization to the fuel procurement decision
We brought Çimsa's production, logistics and sales network across 15 locations into a single mixed-integer model, then built a second model that turns the resulting clinker production plan into a fuel recipe and procurement decision.
- 10% ↓ Inventory cost
- 3% ↓ Manufacturing, warehousing, distribution cost
MMK
MMK: line balancing and order–raw material matching in flat steel production
An optimization system that matches open orders to the right raw material while respecting production line capacity and every stage of the bill of materials. Built across three phases.
- 4,000+ Open sales orders
- ~9 Raw material candidates per order
Kuveyt Türk
Kuveyt Türk: master–apprentice mentoring for two analytics teams — from digital marketing to retail customer analytics
It began in 2023 with training for Digital Marketing's analytics team: SQL, Power BI, Python, machine learning. The team then built its own projects under Lumtify's mentoring — digital score, target management, churn cause analysis, UI usage analysis, product recommendation and churn prediction models. From 2025, spending analytics, a luxury spend score and next-best-action prioritisation with the Retail Customer Analytics team. The team writes the code; Lumtify sets direction, brings method and checks the output.
- Master – apprentice Model
- 8+ Digital projects
Kalekim
Kalekim: from MVP to a forecast management system — three phases in three years
We started with a machine-learning MVP for two product groups fed from Excel; in year two it became a forecasting process retrained every month for every product, and in year three the Kalekimforecast application that planners run themselves. The forecast is now an input to Kalekim's supply, production and logistics planning.
- 2 groups → all Scope
- 3 Encoding methods
Hayat Kimya
Hayat Kimya: weekly e-commerce order forecasting on Microsoft Fabric
A system that forecasts marketplace and e-commerce orders weekly, at the granularity the warehouse shift plan needs, and runs end to end as a single Fabric pipeline from data warehouse to report.
- Weekly Forecast horizon
- One pipeline Automation
Türkiye Finans Participation Bank
Türkiye Finans: training and mentoring for the HR analytics team — from recruitment assessments to employee attrition
One day a week in 2024 with the participation bank's HR Analytics team: Python and machine learning training, then mentoring on the team's own projects. The relationship between the recruitment assessment inventory and performance and retention was analysed by job family; a literature review and model design were done for employee attrition prediction. The method learned was applied to the institution's own data at once.
- 1 day a week Format
- Python · ML Training
Kale Seramik
Kale Seramik: a demand forecasting PoC — and why we did not continue
An MVP that started on the same roadmap as Kalekim: two product functions, 34 methods, three encoding approaches. The result fell short of the target and the second phase was not started. This page explains what did not work, and why.
- 141 DFUs
- 200+ Product attributes
Banks Association of Türkiye (TBB)
TBB: an end-to-end data scientist programme for bankers
Within the Banks Association of Türkiye's training programme, a 62-hour, 21-day 'Data Analytics Journey' for bank employees who use data in their work: introduction to data science, SQL, Python, statistics and EDA, visualisation, machine learning, industry cases. Evening sessions, homework for every module, hands-on work in Colab; every module was scored out of 10 in TBB's participant survey — averaging above 9.
- 62 hours Duration
- 9+ / 10 Evaluation