Portrait of Arif Sait Birincioğlu, Data Scientist and Python Engineer

Arif Sait Birincioğlu

Data Scientist & Python Engineer — SaaS Founder building analytics platforms, predictive models, and growth engines

Professional Summary

Building data-driven products and leading engineering teams for over a decade

Data Scientist and Python Engineer with 13+ years of experience across software engineering, data analytics, predictive modeling, and product strategy. Founder of URLAudit — an automated e-commerce auditing SaaS platform built on Python, Flask, Celery, Playwright, and PostgreSQL.

Track record of leading cross-functional engineering teams, building analytics platforms at scale, and managing full product lifecycles from concept through monetization and growth. Designed analytics instrumentation for blockchain systems at Forte and built predictive LTV engines and monetization dashboards at N3TWORK Studios.

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Professional Experience

From engineering teams to SaaS products, a journey across industries

Currently Building

URL Audit — Automated E-Commerce Auditing SaaS

A distributed platform that crawls 1M+ URLs per day, running HTML/CSS validation, Lighthouse audits, and screenshot capture. Features usage-based Stripe billing, domain-level subscription architecture, and real-time KPI dashboards for store health scoring.

Python Flask Celery Redis PostgreSQL Playwright Stripe API Lighthouse
Founder May 2024 – Present
URL Audit
Delaware, United States
  • Architected a distributed automated store audit engine using Playwright, Celery, Redis, and PostgreSQL.
  • Designed multi-domain subscription architecture with Stripe (usage-based billing, domain-level plans).
  • Engineered a scalable crawling system processing 1M+ URLs per day with HTML/CSS validation, screenshots, and Lighthouse reports.
  • Defined product roadmap, technical architecture, and early customer acquisition strategy.
  • Integrated KPI dashboards with real-time performance metrics and store health scoring.
Python Flask Celery Redis PostgreSQL Playwright Stripe API Lighthouse
Data Analytics Lead & Data Scientist, Games Jan 2022 – May 2024
Forte
San Francisco Bay Area, Remote
  • Designed analytics event instrumentation across blockchain operations, wallet, accounts, bridges, exchanges, and token liquidity systems.
  • Created dashboards and data aggregation pipelines to surface key metrics across teams.
  • Developed data validators, quality standards, and automated testing pipelines ensuring data integrity across products.
  • Directed cross-functional data engineering and analytics teams.
  • Built simulation models to analyze user economy behavior and revenue impact.
Python SQL Pandas Data Pipelines Blockchain Analytics
Senior Data Scientist, Platform Insights May 2021 – Dec 2021
N3TWORK Studios
San Francisco Bay Area, Remote
  • Constructed data pipelines for LTV, CPI, ROI modeling, and marketing analytics.
  • Created dashboards for publishing decisions — green/red light models for game launches.
  • Managed A/B testing performance and monetization insights across titles.
Python SQL A/B Testing BI Tools Marketing Analytics
Python Data Scientist & Project Manager Feb 2021 – May 2021
Freelance, Self-Employed
Remote
  • Delivered data scraping, analysis, and dashboard projects (Tableau, PowerBI) for clients across the US, Europe, and Australia.
  • Developed custom data pipelines, automation scripts, and visualization reports in Python for diverse industries.
Python Pandas Tableau PowerBI Scrapy SQL
Data Scientist & Senior Program Manager Aug 2017 – Feb 2021
Jawabkom.com INC
Seattle, Washington, Remote
  • Directed web/mobile engineering teams, marketing teams, and digital product delivery; hired 60+ developers, designers, and marketers.
  • Analyzed terabytes of data across products to drive strategic decision-making.
  • Developed automated reporting for LTV, ROI, EBITDA, and churn forecasting.
  • Oversaw the online marketing team with a multi-million dollar budget across Google Ads, Facebook, Snapchat, and TikTok.
  • Prepared unit economics reports and KPI dashboards to monitor multi-product performance.
  • Launched 8+ web and mobile products from concept to production, achieving a combined 1.25M+ app installs across iOS and Android.
  • Spearheaded end-to-end product delivery including backend development, data gathering, design, marketing, and growth.
Python PHP Laravel Pandas NumPy PowerBI
Data Scientist & Project Manager Jan 2017 – Aug 2017
Freelance
Remote
  • Created and managed multiple Shopify websites for Tako Agency; executed data migration, funnel A/B testing, and optimization.
  • Performed marketing and campaign data analysis for EasyWeddings.com.au.
  • Delivered data cleanup, analysis, and automation solutions in Python for various clients.
Python Shopify Google Analytics A/B Testing
Deputy General Manager Mar 2016 – Oct 2016
Ancin Insaat
Turkey
  • Coordinated a multi-million dollar luxury real estate construction project from planning through execution.
  • Led the sales strategy for a hotel project, including investor outreach and stakeholder presentations.
  • Prepared feasibility studies and financial models to secure investor interest and project funding.
General Manager Jan 2014 – Dec 2015
Sultan Sera, MB Holding
Aydin, Turkey
  • Promoted to General Manager — youngest in the holding's history — overseeing all production and business operations.
  • Led production and packaging teams of 50 people, reducing costs and increasing output significantly.
  • Created feasibility studies for a fruit and vegetable packaging facility and geothermal food drying project.
  • Coordinated the Velika-1 Geothermal Power Plant project in Croatia; managed purchasing of a $12M geothermal power plant.
Assistant General Manager May 2013 – Jan 2014
Sultan Sera, MB Holding
Aydin, Turkey
  • Supervised a team across production, packaging, and sales operations.
  • Implemented data-driven models to optimize production planning, inventory management, and sales forecasting.
  • Expanded domestic and international sales channels, establishing new distribution partnerships globally.
Web Developer & Project Manager Oct 2012 – Feb 2013
Mantiksal Software and Development
Izmir, Turkey
  • Developed PHP backend systems for multiple top e-commerce websites in Turkey.
  • Managed a team of 8 developers and designers.
  • Planned and developed new modules for the e-commerce platform; introduced Git and GitHub to the team.
PHP MySQL Git GitHub

Technical Skills

Core competencies refined across years of building products at scale

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Data Science & Analytics

Python Pandas NumPy Predictive Modeling LTV / ROI Models A/B Testing Data Mining Blockchain Analytics Scrapy
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Data Engineering & Infrastructure

SQL PostgreSQL BigQuery Snowflake MongoDB Redis Celery MySQL Data Pipelines ETL
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Visualization & Reporting

PowerBI Tableau QGIS Real-Time Dashboards KPI Reporting Advanced Excel
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Web & Product Engineering

Flask Playwright PHP / Laravel Stripe API Shopify Symfony Git / GitHub Lighthouse
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Leadership & Strategy

Team Leadership Product Strategy Unit Economics Budget Management
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Digital Marketing

Google Ads Facebook Ads Funnel Optimization Ad Campaign Analytics

Personal Projects

Things I've built out of curiosity, passion, and the drive to create

L2Loyal Gaming Community

Founder & Developer

Created an online gaming community with multiple game servers, reaching over 50,000 users.

SQL Server MS Server 2003 PHP C++

GamesMessU Gaming Community

Founder & Developer

Built a social network website for gamers to share experiences.

PHP Symfony

NGClick Web Design & Marketing Agency

Founder

Founded a web design agency serving multiple international clients with website design and online marketing.

PHP Symfony

Data Scraping & Visualization

Developer

Built scrapers for gaming, housing market (GIS), stock market, classifieds, and other data domains. Created visualizations and GIS data maps.

Python Scrapy Pandas MongoDB PHP MySQL

Academic Background

Master's Degree, Systems Engineering

Gediz University, Izmir, Turkey
2014

Bachelor of Business Administration

Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey
2006 – 2012

TUBITAK Research Grant Recipient

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey

Contact

Open to opportunities, collaborations, and interesting conversations

Phone
+90 (541) 454-3785
Location
Izmir, Turkey
English
Full Professional
Turkish
Native / Bilingual
German
Elementary