Data & AI Leadership — Istanbul, Türkiye

Oytun Deniz

Analytics Manager, Fibabanka — leads Data Science and Generative-AI/MLOps from use-case discovery through governed, monitored production.

I've spent a decade turning data chaos into infrastructure a bank can trust — first the warehouse, now the AI running on top of it.
10+years in EDW, analytics & production ML
2cross-functional teams led concurrently
1full EDW re-platform delivered end-to-end
7yprior EDW delivery leadership, Yapı Kredi

Leadership Record

Analytic Center of Excellence & Retail Analytics Manager 2022 — present
Fibabanka
Scope — 2 teams (Data Science, GenAI/MLOps) · portfolio ownership PoC → production

Leads two cross-functional teams — Data Science and GenAI/MLOps — from use-case discovery to governed, monitored production. Owns the AI/ML roadmap end to end; built MLOps as a discipline (CI/CD, versioning, safety testing, observability, SLO-driven serving) and guardrails as policy (access control, lineage, red-teaming). Mentors senior ICs and sets the standard the rest of the org works to.

Digital Transformation Manager 2019 — 2022
Fibabanka
Scope — bank-wide initiative portfolio · multi-vendor management

Led a bank-wide transformation program end to end — initiative planning, budget and timeline ownership, vendor and stakeholder management, progress reporting to leadership. Built the operating culture the later analytics reorganization was built on.

Data Warehouse Project Analyst 2016 — 2019
Yapı Kredi
Scope — EDW re-platform delivery lead · architecture, governance & infra

Delivery lead for a full EDW re-platform — EDW, Conformed, and Datamart layers — working across PMO, architecture, governance, and infrastructure. Set the data-catalog and self-service standards the business still runs on, and bridged Exadata to Cloudera for nine years of cold operational data beyond the warehouse's one-year window.

Earlier — Senior Business Analyst & Business Analyst, Yapı Kredi (2012–2015) · Software Developer, OBASE (2011–2012) · Visiting Lecturer, Introduction to Data Analysis, Özyeğin University (2023)

Capabilities

Leadership
Org & roadmap ownership, mentoring & standards, executive communication, vendor & stakeholder management
Technical Fluency
Hands-on across the modern data-to-GenAI stack — warehousing, production ML, and LLM serving

Education

MEF University
Master's, Big Data Analytics
2017–2018
Okan University
B.Sc., Information Technology
2006–2011
Languages — Turkish (native) · English (professional working)