Open to roles and selected projects
Research you can audit.
Engineering that ships it.
Quantitative analyst and AI researcher based in Germany. I combine equity research, machine learning and language models, and build the software that ships them. Open to full-time roles and selected projects.
as of Jul 5, 2026
Where I can help
Full-time roles
Quant research, AI/ML in finance, or equity research roles at funds, banks and fintechs. I own both the model and the pipeline that feeds it.
Contract valuation
Single-name valuation and due diligence for small funds and family offices, in a fund memo format.
Expert calls
Paid calls on the companies covered by the Fundamental Analyzer, and on the macro and market indicators on this site.
Custom indicators and tools
Offline pipelines that turn primary sources into clean, published dashboards, like the ones on this site.
Where machine learning meets the balance sheet
Finance-focused language models
Fine-tuning, quantising and serving LLMs on self-built AI servers (Ollama, LM Studio), with RAG over financial text.
QuantAI
A financial dashboard in Python and Streamlit, with RAG on SEC filings and AI-assisted chart interpretation.
Open-source quant models
20+ stochastic models and quant tools, including ML-based portfolio allocation (Hierarchical Risk Parity). 1,000+ downloads.
Everything here is a sample
Experience
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Dec 2024 – Jul 2025
Quantitative Analyst · Seeking Alpha (remote)
Built analysis tools and dashboards in Python and SQL with automated data pipelines. 70+ published analyses, syndicated to MSN Money.
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Jan 2022 – present
Open-source developer · GitHub
20+ quant algorithms and tools, 1,000+ downloads. Led an international contributor team. Built the QuantAI dashboard (Streamlit, RAG on SEC filings).
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Jun – Aug 2023
Asset Management Intern · Halkbank
Automated financial reporting and trading software for a 20-person analyst team, from requirements to production.
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Jun 2021 – May 2023
Founder & Algorithmic Developer · Bayford Analytics
Led an 8-person developer team, launched 10+ analytics tools, ran the server infrastructure and advised 60+ investors.
M.Sc. Economics (in progress), Osnabrück University · B.Sc. Business Administration, Bursa Uludağ University. Certificate: Financial Markets, Yale University (Coursera).
Primary sources only
Filings, transcripts, official releases. No sell-side consensus in any published figure.
Refuse, don't estimate
A missing input is refused, never filled with a guess.
Assumptions on the page
An intrinsic value is never shown without the assumptions behind it.
Profile at a glance
- Role
- Quantitative analyst and AI researcher
- Based in
- Germany
- Education
- M.Sc. Economics (in progress), Osnabrück University (econometric modelling, panel data) · B.Sc. Business Administration, Bursa Uludağ University
- Languages
- English (C1), German (B2), Turkish (native)
- Tools
- Python (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, PyTorch), SQL, R, Stata, Excel/VBA, Git, Streamlit, Linux
- AI stack
- Fine-tuning, quantisation, RAG, local LLM hosting (Ollama, LM Studio), Proxmox
- Track record
- 70+ Seeking Alpha articles (MSN Money syndication); TipRanks 72% success rate over 33 ratings (as of Jul 5, 2026)
- Open source
- github.com/YavuzAkbay
- Open to
- Full-time roles, contract valuation, expert calls, research tooling
What roles are you open to?
Full-time quant research, AI/ML in finance, or equity research roles. I'm also open to selected contract projects.
How do you use AI in finance?
I fine-tune, quantise and serve language models on self-built AI servers, with retrieval-augmented generation over financial text. QuantAI is a Streamlit dashboard that combines RAG on SEC filings with AI-assisted chart interpretation, and my open-source tools include machine-learning-based portfolio allocation. Every output is checked against primary sources, not sell-side consensus.
Where can I see your work?
The Fundamental Analyzer and market indicators on this site, my open-source repositories on GitHub, and 70+ equity research articles on Seeking Alpha.
Where are you based?
In Germany. I work in English (C1), German (B2) and Turkish (native).
What is your background?
An M.Sc. in Economics (in progress) from Osnabrück University and a B.Sc. in Business Administration from Bursa Uludağ University, then a quantitative analyst role at Seeking Alpha, an asset-management internship at Halkbank, and founding Bayford Analytics.
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