Murat A. Avcu Open to 2027 roles
Data Scientist / ML Engineer — Los Angeles, CA

Murat
A. Avcu_

I build machine-learning systems that turn large-scale, messy data into outcomes you can measure.

// quantitative trading · computer vision · LLM agents

ML-filtered S&P 500 · backtest +91% at 1:2 R:R
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Illustrative equity curve — ML-filtered EMA-crossover strategy on S&P 500. Backtest, for education & research only.
Intraday price-level accuracy — S&P 500 ML model
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ROAS lift built at an 8-figure retailer
Records processed monthly via Airflow + AWS
Accuracy — breast-cancer imaging model, TÜBİTAK
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Profile

Data scientist and ML engineer with 3+ years turning data into measurable business value. At an 8-figure e-commerce company I built marketplace insight engines and AI pricing systems across Amazon, Etsy and Shopify; earlier, as a research intern at TÜBİTAK — Turkey's largest research institute — I trained deep-learning models for medical imaging.

I'm now completing an M.S. in Business Analytics at Cal Poly Pomona on top of a B.S. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering. I like problems where a model has to earn its place by moving a number — accuracy, margin, ROAS, latency. Outside of work I teach AI on YouTube and Udemy and serve as an OpenAI ChatGPT Ambassador.

LOCATIONLos Angeles, CA · open to remote
DEGREEM.S. Business Analytics — Cal Poly Pomona (3.51)
PRIORB.S. Electrical & Electronics Eng. (3.1)
FOCUSML · Deep Learning · LLMs · CV · NLP · MLOps
SEEKINGData Scientist / ML / Analytics — 2027
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Track record

MegaGear — Data Scientist

MAR 2023 – JUN 2025 · ISTANBUL/ LOS ANGELES / REMOTE

Shipped 20+ data and ML systems for an 8-figure retailer across 13 marketplaces — pricing, demand forecasting, A/B testing and LLM-driven trend detection on Amazon, Etsy and Shopify.

+26.1% ROAS +24.5% conversion +12.7% profit margin (H1'25) −15% stockouts +10% recurring purchases

TÜBİTAK — Machine Learning Engineer, Intern

INTERNSHIP · DEC 2021 – SEP 2022 · ISTANBUL

Built deep-learning models for medical diagnosis at Turkey's largest research institute, integrating an AI system into a clinical imaging device for professional use.

99.85% accuracy breast-cancer detection histopathology imaging

Mercedes-Benz Türk — Engineering Intern

INTERNSHIP · JUN 2022 – AUG 2022 · AKSARAY

Programmed KUKA robots for synchronized operation on a truck mass-production line; hands-on PLC programming, pneumatics and basic hydraulics.

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Selected work

Quant · ML

S&P 500 Key-Level Behavior

Filters EMA-crossover signals by classifying market behavior around support/resistance. Three models score each setup — 91%+ of filtered signals reach a 1:2 risk-reward.

PythonXGBoostRandom Forestscikit-learn
Apache-2.0View repo →
Computer Vision

YOLOv7 Object Counter

Region- and line-based object counting on top of YOLOv7 with custom functions. My most-used open-source project.

PythonPyTorchYOLOv7OpenCV
★ 120 · 29 forksView repo →
LLM · Trading

Claude × TradingView Copilot

Screenshots live TradingView charts via Chrome DevTools and reasons over them using your own Pine-Script logic in the prompt. Persistent memory, swappable vision models.

PythonClaudeGeminiCDP
Apache-2.0View repo →
LLM Agents

AI Cheap Orchestrator Agents

An agent crew where Claude orchestrates three DeepSeek workers passing tasks back and forth — built a Minecraft clone in ~5 minutes for about $0.05. Drop the folder into any project.

PythonClaudeDeepSeekAgentic
★ 1View repo →
Computer Vision

License-Plate Recognition

End-to-end license-plate detection and recognition built on YOLOv7.

PythonYOLOv7OCR
★ 45 · 9 forksView repo →
LLM · NLP

Twitter Scraper with LLM

Scrape an X/Twitter timeline and chat with the tweets through an LLM.

PythonLLMNLP
★ 16 · 2 forksView repo →
More on GitHub →
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Stack

Languages
PythonSQLC++
ML & Deep Learning
PyTorchTensorFlowscikit-learnXGBoostRandom Forest
LLMs & NLP
GPTLLaMAMistralLangChainLlamaIndexNLP
Computer Vision
YOLO v5–v9U-NetMask R-CNNOpenCV
Data & MLOps
Apache AirflowAWS S3DockerMySQLMongoDB
Analytics & BI
A/B testingCausal inferenceARIMAProphetPower BITableau
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Education & recognition

M.S. Business Analytics

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona · 2025–2027

GPA 3.51. Graduate study in analytics, statistics and data systems.

B.S. Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Turkish-German University · 2021–2025

GPA 3.1. Vice President, Undergraduate Research Club. Peer tutor in signal processing and neural networks. German C1.

2025–26OpenAI ChatGPT AmbassadorOne of the first ambassadors across the CSU system.
2023Generative AI with Large Language ModelsCoursera
2023LangChain for LLM Application DevelopmentDeepLearning.AI
ongoingUdemy Instructor1,500+ enrollments; main course localized to Korean.
ongoingYouTube CreatorAI apps, LLM agents and quant — @murataavcu.

Let's build something measurable.

Open to Data Scientist, ML Engineer and Analytics roles for 2027 — Los Angeles or remote.