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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

📊Aug — Sep 2026

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.

Pythonpandasstatsmodelspytest
📈Feb — Mar 2026

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.

PythonNumPySciPyNumba
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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.

C++BSD SocketsTCP/IPstd::threadMutex
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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.

FlaskReactBootstrapMongoDBPostgreSQLDockerK8s
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Personal Portfolio

This site — sticky split-screen layout, live GitHub & LeetCode API integration, and a static export deployed to Cloudflare Pages.

Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSCloudflare Pages

Education

2027
—
2028

Intended Master's

Planned

MS / MFE in Quantitative Finance

Applications in progress

Expected

2024
—
2027

University College London

BSc Computer Science

On track for 1st Class Honours · IEP Minor in Intelligent Systems (AI)

London, UK

Teaching Assistant — COMP0004 (OOP in Java)CS SocietyFintech SocietyQuant Society

2019
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2024

Robert College

MEB High School Diploma

96.70 / 100 · SAT 1530 (Math: 800 · English: 730)

Istanbul, TR

2× TEKNOFEST FinalistAP Scholar With Distinction

Stack

Languages

PythonC / C++SQLQ / kdb+JavaHaskellTypeScriptJavaScript

Quant & Data

NumPySciPyPandasStatsmodelsNumbaMatplotlibSeabornRecharts

Machine Learning

scikit-learnTensorFlowKeras

Web & Frameworks

FastAPIFlaskPydanticSQLAlchemyReactNext.jsTailwind CSSREST APIsJWT-AuthPytest

Databases

ClickHousePostgreSQLRedisMongoDBOracleDBMySQL

Systems & Tools

LinuxGitDockerKubernetesCloudflare

Blog

Writing

Occasional posts on web dev, systems programming, quant finance, and things I learn along the way.

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