Available for internships & new grad roles
I'm Baran Dursun.
I turn data into
McGill University — BA in Computer Science & Economics (Dec 2026). FMVA. Focused on data analytics, data science, and tech consulting.
About me
Turning data into decisions
I'm based in Montreal, studying Computer Science & Economics at McGill. I care about rigorous analysis, clean data pipelines, and models that drive real decisions.
My coursework spans Econometrics, Probability, Data Structures, Financial Instruments & Institutions, and Economic Statistics. I've interned in invoicing & collections at Duronm Textile and IT operations at Advanced Information Modeling, focusing on reporting, process improvement, and data accuracy.
I'm fluent in English and Turkish, with intermediate French. Active in the McGill Consulting Association and the Economics Student Association.
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Career
Experience
Invoicing and Collections Intern
Duronm Textile Company
Izmir, Turkey
- Analyzed 200+ accounts receivable transactions to identify payment trends, delays, and cash-flow risk exposure.
- Built weekly Excel reports tracking overdue balances, collection performance, and working capital indicators for management review.
- Supported reconciliation of invoicing and payment records, improving data accuracy and reporting reliability.
- Flagged high-risk accounts and payment anomalies for follow-up, supporting improved collection prioritization.
Summer IT Intern
Advanced Information Modeling Inc
St. Petersburg, FL (Remote)
- Supported internal IT operations by monitoring system availability, performance logs, and operational metrics.
- Analyzed internal workflows and documented recurring technical issues, contributing to process improvement recommendations.
- Assisted with technology-enabled process improvements by updating internal documentation and supporting standard operating procedures.
FragMance — Mobile Fragrance Platform
Fragrance discovery and collection app, live on the App Store. Scan any bottle via a 4-stage barcode pipeline, build your digital wardrobe, log your Scent of the Day, and follow friends. 70,000+ fragrances with full note breakdowns, social feed, streak tracking, and B2B analytics endpoints sold to fragrance houses.
EconSight — Canadian Economic Intelligence Platform
Ingests 9 macro indicators from Statistics Canada and the Bank of Canada into a PostgreSQL medallion warehouse, runs VAR/XGBoost forecasting with Monte Carlo scenario bands, and serves results through a FastAPI + React dashboard with a composite health score, natural language Q&A (RAG), and one-click PDF report generation.
Personalized Newspaper — AI-Curated Daily Broadsheet
A personal front page, rebuilt on a schedule. Polls Finnhub, RSS feeds, and Hacker News, scores every article for relevance and clickbait with Claude, and renders a dense three-column broadsheet from Postgres — deployed as a single service on Railway.
AI-Powered Financial Risk & Anomaly Detector (AuditAP)
Automated Accounts Payable monitoring to detect duplicate invoices, vendor price creeping, and zombie subscriptions. QuickBooks integration, 90-day rolling baselines, anomaly flagging with LLMs.
Quantitative Portfolio Optimization & Risk Engine
Stochastic portfolio optimization using Modern Portfolio Theory and 10,000+ Monte Carlo simulations. Multivariate return simulation via Cholesky decomposition; Parametric VaR and Expected Shortfall (95% & 99%).
Global Layoffs — Data Cleaning & Exploratory Analysis
End-to-end data pipeline cleaning and analyzing a real-world layoffs dataset covering major workforce reductions from 2020 to 2023. Quality checks and exploratory analysis to surface trends.
Expense Tracker App
Personal finance app for tracking expenses, categorizing spending, and managing budgets with a clean CLI interface and data persistence.
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Interested in working together or just want to say hi? I'm happy to hear from you.