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Trading Analyst & Developer · Uniper Global Commodities · New York, NY

01Experience

Trading Analyst & Developer, Global Commodities

Uniper · New York · Aug 2025 – Present
  • Leading migration of the FinGas analytics platform (100+ traders across NY, London, and Düsseldorf) to Azure Container Apps with GitHub Actions CI/CD; powers live positions, P&L, and fundamentals dashboards driving gas trading decisions.
  • Built Python/SQL pipelines in Snowflake ingesting millions of rows daily from vendor feeds (Enverus, LSEG, Kpler) covering production, storage, and pipeline flows, underpinning the desk's view on basis spreads and seasonal positioning.
  • Developed ML-based anomaly detection across 216 North American gas pipelines, flagging flow shifts the desk investigates for basis and locational trading; built a backtesting framework to validate seasonal strategies before deploying capital.
  • Built AI research agents (LangGraph, MCP) compiling daily intelligence on key oil-producing regions, surfacing supply dynamics that influence global LNG flows and US gas exports.

Analyst Intern, Global Commodities

Uniper · New York · May 2024 – Aug 2025
  • Built Python/Flask microservices integrating Azure, Snowflake, and Excel to deliver curve construction, spread analytics, and scenario modeling tools used by gas analysts for daily pre-market prep and trade ideation.
  • Re-architected the platform's data layer with Redis caching and async task queues backed by Celery workers, cutting peak-hour page loads from ~60s to under 2s and unblocking real-time use during the morning open.

Research Assistant, UIUC Fintech Lab

Advised by Prof. David Lariviere · Champaign, IL · Jan 2025 – May 2025
  • Conducted research on market microstructure, focused on limit order book dynamics and execution behavior.
  • Built C++ components for the lab's limit order book simulator, running experiments on order arrival and matching.
  • Analyzed historical tick data in Python to characterize spread, depth, and volatility across equity and futures.

Backend Software Engineer, Subscriptions & Checkout

Getir · Istanbul · Aug 2023 – Mar 2024
  • Built backend services on the subscription and checkout teams, two revenue-critical paths in Getir's platform (the quick-commerce decacorn later acquired by Uber). Cut subscription renewal latency from ~2s to ~100ms by offloading read-heavy aggregations to AWS Redshift.
  • Engineered a server-side alerting system using a task manager pattern and Slack notifications, dropping unidentified error rate from 22% to 3.4%. Refactored Chain of Responsibility in checkout to speed payment and promotion rule rollout.

02Education

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · cum laude · May 2025
  • GPA 3.7 / 4.0. Dean's List (Grainger College of Engineering), 5 semesters.
  • Phi Kappa Theta Gregory Wooters Academic Excellence Scholarship: AY 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24.
  • Bloomberg Certifications: Market Concepts (BMC), ESG, Spreadsheet Analysis.

03Projects

Real-time ADS-B Aircraft Tracking & Collision Warning System

Senior project · Jan 2025 – May 2025
  • Led a 4-person team building a real-time ADS-B tracker ingesting live aircraft telemetry into a Cesium 3D globe, rendering thousands of concurrent flight paths with sub-second update latency.
  • Implemented Closest Point of Approach (CPA) collision prediction scoring horizontal/vertical separation and time-to-conflict, surfacing live conflict alerts ranked by severity across the active airspace.
  • Designed heuristic and ML-based anomaly detection for GPS spoofing and implausible flight behavior, flagging unrealistic vertical rates, heading changes, and position jumps in real time.

Beneath The Surface: Semantic Segmentation and Depth Estimation

UIUC research · Nov 2024 – May 2025
  • Built a PyTorch multi-task framework on MTI-Net jointly learning depth estimation, semantic segmentation, and edge detection on NYU Depth V2, with custom guided attention routing segmentation and edge features into the depth head.
  • Designed a structured depth loss combining L1, gradient, and edge-aware regularization terms, achieving 0.0323 MAE / 0.0416 RMSE on depth and 62.17% pixel accuracy on segmentation.

04Publications

Tell IF Fake: Classical IR Methods for Fake-News Detection

Yigit, K. · Koksal, B. · UIUC IR course (Robles-Granda) · 2024

A fake-news classifier on the LIAR dataset built with classical IR methods rather than a transformer. The pipeline stitches TF-IDF retrieval, LDA topic modeling blended through a Gaussian Mixture, and RoBERTa-derived sentiment features into a logistic-regression head you can actually inspect.

Whitepaper (PDF)

05Skills

Backend
PythonGoJavaTypeScriptC++SQLPostgresSnowflakeRedisCeleryKafkadbt
DevOps & Cloud
AzureContainer AppsAWSRedshiftDockerGitHub ActionsCI/CDNew RelicDatadogGrafana
AI & ML
PyTorchscikit-learnLangGraphMCPAzure AI FoundryRoBERTa
Markets
NA Natural GasEuropean TTFLNG FlowsStorageBasis & Calendar SpreadsLimit Order Book

06Leadership

Vice President, Phi Kappa Theta (Beta Delta Chapter)

UIUC · Nov 2022 – Nov 2024
  • Drove chapter GPA up 15% over two years (highest in chapter history).
  • Co-administered a $100,000+ annual operational budget across membership, events, and facilities.

07Languages

Speak
English (fluent)Turkish (native)