Oral Ersoy Dokumaci

Senior Machine Learning Engineer at The Burning Glass Institute, building ML and NLP systems for labor market analytics.

I have comb-shaped skills: deeper experience in Python, Software Engineering, ML/NLP, and Game Theory, with exposure to Cloud Architecture and Engineering, AI Systems Design, Data Engineering, and MLOps.

In a previous life, I was a quant in finance. I went into the tech side of quantitative finance with a goal of picking up transferable engineering and machine learning skills. I worked on high-frequency trading and market-neutral hedge fund strategies, where I was lucky enough to be surrounded by great engineers and learned the trade (pun intended) by doing. Once I’d done that, I went back to being surrounded by great economists at The Burning Glass Institute. I find it refreshing now to be working at a nonprofit after years where profit was the only objective.

I’ve also been doing my PhD on the side in Economics. My research includes game theory, matching theory, and decision theory.