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Experience
2026
Quant Researcher Intern · Aspect Capital
Execution Research Team · London, UK
- Built a futures volume forecasting engine in Python/kdb+ predicting time-of-day liquidity profiles, using SMA/EWMA calculations on historical profiles to identify seasonal and regime-driven shifts across contracts.
- Constructed a shape-based FX volume regression model learning hourly liquidity patterns from CLS data labels, using 1-day lagged spread/quote/RV EWMA anchor features across multiple spans to generate NDF volume profiles.
- Achieved 0.60 pooled R² (0.56 mean per-pair) in volume share-space — 47% above a per-pair quote-EWMA benchmark (0.38 R²) and within 15% of a per-pair volume-EWMA benchmark (0.66 R²).
- Backtested scheduling in a tick-level simulator, reducing realized slippage by ~13% and holding participation under 2.5% with volume-profile VWAP execution versus benchmark TWAP scheduling.
Jun — Sep 2026
2025
Quant Researcher Intern · IS Investment
Investment Technologies Dept. · Istanbul, TR
- Engineered a Black-Scholes options pricing model and an L3 depth order book with NumPy and Pandas, processing raw ITCH protocol intraday market data with 50k+ trades and 500k+ orders.
- Developed a modular backtesting framework integrated with a ClickHouse DB to evaluate passive liquidity (buy-wall) and active momentum strategies with low-latency data retrieval against the ITCH order book.
Aug — Sep 2025
2023
Data Science Intern · H3M Analytics
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Team · Istanbul, TR
- Built an Oracle DB and MySQL pipeline to preprocess 1M+ financial transactions across 1,000+ accounts.
- Developed a Logistic Regression fraud detection model via scikit-learn, achieving 81% accuracy.
Aug — Sep 2023
2023
Venture Analyst Intern · Vestel Ventures
Zorlu Group VC · Istanbul, TR
- Awarded the internship after winning Robert College's annual elevator pitch competition.
- Scouted 100+ startups via startups.watch and delivered a fintech growth projection report using Python data analysis.
- Developed understanding of SaaS products by attending the SaaStanbul conference.
Jul — Aug 2023
Projects
ETF Arbitrage Dynamics
Price-to-NAV deviation panel for 8 ETFs across equity, credit and EM built from issuer-published NAV files, with Ornstein-Uhlenbeck reversion half-lives estimated under block-bootstrap intervals validated for coverage. Showed exchange-traded baskets are arbitraged away within the session (premiums under 0.5bp) while OTC-backed credit reverts over 1–1.5 days and halts at a 10–28bp floor equal to basket execution cost. Isolated a Japan-listed fund's apparent predictability as stale-NAV price discovery, validated by showing the premium tracked overnight index futures moves rather than genuine mispricing.
Options Hedging Engine
Arbitrage-free SVI surfaces fitted to SPX option chains by enforcing Breeden-Litzenberger density positivity and calendar monotonicity, eliminating butterfly and calendar arbitrage. Extracted continuous Dupire local volatility, simulated 100k paths and validated against surface-implied vanilla prices. Backtested dynamic delta hedging under bid-ask frictions — Whalley-Wilmott bands cut tracking error by 19% at equal transaction cost, implying lower bounds for quoted spreads.
HTTP Server
Multi-threaded HTTP/1.1 server in C++ using BSD sockets and low-level TCP. Handles concurrent connections via std::thread with mutex synchronisation, request parsing, and static file serving.
FitBro App
Full-stack fitness tracking app with a RESTful API delivering sub-150ms response times. CI/CD pipeline halved deployment time. Polyglot persistence — MongoDB for workout logs, PostgreSQL for auth — containerised with Docker and orchestrated with K8s.
Personal Portfolio
This site — sticky split-screen layout, live GitHub & LeetCode API integration, and a static export deployed to Cloudflare Pages.
Education
2027
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2028
Intended Master's
PlannedMS / MFE in Quantitative Finance
Applications in progress
Expected
2024
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2027
University College London
BSc Computer Science
On track for 1st Class Honours · IEP Minor in Intelligent Systems (AI)
London, UK
2019
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2024
Robert College
MEB High School Diploma
96.70 / 100 · SAT 1530 (Math: 800 · English: 730)
Istanbul, TR
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