Notes from the messy middle.
Slow, opinionated essays on data engineering, machine learning and the parts of an analytics career that nobody puts on the slide.
2025 · 03~ 11 min read
Why I'd rather build the same Redshift query twice
A defence of boring, idempotent ELT — why running the same SQL again on Monday morning should produce the same numbers, and what that costs to enforce in a real warehouse.
data engineeringredshifteltsql
2025 · 02~ 9 min read
From RPA to data: notes from the in-between
What two years of automation work taught me before I moved to a data role — which lessons were portable, which were a trap, and what I'd tell a junior RPA developer eyeing the same move.
careerrpadata engineeringessay
2025 · 01~ 12 min read
What U-Net taught me about reading MRI slices
Field notes from the TÜBİTAK-funded segmentation project. Less about architectures, more about the unglamorous decisions — normalisation, patch sampling, honest evaluation — that decide whether a Dice score means anything.
deep learningu-netmedical imagingtensorflow