Büşra Erdal Email & Phone Number

Istanbul, Turkey

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Conceptualize and present artificial intelligence solutions for top-tier American retailers and wholesalers, with a focus on the SaaS delivery of forecasting solutions.• Align objectives across functional areas to ensure the achievement of desired outcomes on the established timelines and within expected quality standards.• Converted the existing SaaS product into an ensemble version in a configurable way by stacking diverse models based on performance validations.• Crafted a more robust, scalable, and production-ready retail demand forecasting engine using PySpark, while concurrently developing, debugging, and maintaining forecasting models; produced models that played a pivotal role in delivering comprehensive demand and assortment insights to top-tier American retailers and wholesalers through SaaS delivery.

• Planned and executed Innovation Lab projects within the Internal Audit Department for data-driven audits, empowering teams to focus on more specific/risky areas by using machine learning concepts and automated processes.• Commended as one of the top quarterly auditors from the Head of Audit in recognition of outstanding contributions in the ”Digital Onboarding Process Audit,” which aims to detect invalid identity cards by using OCR technology to manage the compliance risk.• Enabled the detection of private banking customers whose eligibility requirements for private banking were not met using clustering algorithms DBSCAN and Gaussian Mixture.• Performed the scraping of customer data and employees’ email addresses from the internet to create social engineering scenarios for penetration testing audit using Scrapy and Selenium.• Conducted detections of human faces and identity cards with a reassurance score by using object detection algorithms (YOLO v5 and Faster RCNN) in the screenshots taken by call center agents during the digital customer onboarding process.• Classified the corporate and commercial credits of IFRS stage 1 and IFRS stage 2 portfolios into 2 classes: ”Well Classified” credits and ”Badly Classified” credits.• Automated the detection of invalid permission to communicate forms of customers (using box detection algorithms and pixel counting) who seem to have given communication permission in the bank database without filling any of the checkboxes of their forms.• Pinpointed invalid passports, blue cards, driving licenses, and identity cards (invalid date or improper [unreadable, dark, blurred] documents) using OCR technology.• Led the embedding of 672 graphics into an HTML document to gain insights from the customer data to analyze the effects of COVID-related lockdown on branch customers.

• Served as an IT Auditor and Agile Ambassador throughout various projects and engagements.• Participated in audits to evaluate the information and cybersecurity risks of Garanti and its subsidiaries.• Received appreciation as one of the top quarterly auditors from the Head of Audit following success in Penetration Test Audit, which aims to detect and eliminate the potential security weaknesses that may cause unauthorized access to Garanti’s information systems before any exploitation occurs.• Embedded JavaScript code into an HTML document to perform phishing attacks to Garanti BBVA personnel with an external attacker profile (black box) for penetration testing.• Discovered cybersecurity vulnerabilities, such as SQL Injection, XSS, Host Header Injection, in internal web applications; demonstrated up-to-date knowledge of the threat landscape, including emerging tools and methodologies to counter-act the same.• Assisted with the Agile transformation of the organization as Agile Ambassador by adapting the teams to an Agile work environment; attended sprint sessions, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives to report progress, prioritize next steps, and delegate assignments to team members based on their strengths and specialties.

Istanbul, Türkiye

• Delivered weekly lectures on Python and various data science topics (regression, clustering, classification, data preprocessing).• Offered individual and small-group support during in-class opportunities and office hours; explained complex concepts in easy-to-understand language, including clear examples.- CS306 Database Systems- CS210 Introduction to Data Science- CS310 Mobile Application Development

Bilecik, Turkey

• Defined the required structures of existing products to embody product data management; established a rule for the product codes to boost their memorability. • Developed software and a detailed user interface to create product codes according to the new rule and systematize the process using VBA.

Ankara, Turkey

Istanbul, Turkey

Ankara, Turkey

Master Of Science - Ms, Data Science

GPA: 4.00/4.00 • Thesis: Conceptual Difficulty Prediction of Text Documents - Advisors: Prof. Dr. Yücel Saygın & Stefan Rabiger.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Industrial Engineering

GPA: 3.66/4.00 - Magna Cum Laude • Ranked 2147th in Nationwide University Entrance Exam among 1.9 million students

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