Gökhan Çiflikli, PhD
Data & AI Consultant | Fractional Data Leadership
👋 I’m Gökhan.
A methodologist and a computational social scientist by training, I have 17 years of experience working in tech, open-source software development, and applied research. I hold a PhD from the London School of Economics where I still maintain ongoing connections to cutting-edge research and scientific community as a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Data Science Institute.
Previously, I was Director of AI & ML at Superside, Head of Data & Analytics at Attest, and Technical Lead at Quanteda Initiative.
In 2024, I founded Cogentis Consulting to work independently at the intersection of industry and academia. I offer fractional data leadership, one-off consulting, workshops, and career coaching for PhDs looking to break into the industry.
I am passionate about aligning technical work with the needs of the business to maximise the ROI on data initiatives. I enjoy mentoring data engineers, research scientists, and business analysts to accelerate their growth.
I publish a newsletter on technical team management aimed at middle managers called TeamCraft. I also post about open-source MLOps tools in the Python ecosystem. I used to publish case studies on data visualisation and predictive modelling in my R blog, however it lays dormant since 2018.
I support and champion cognitive diversity. Since 2020, I have been assisting the Tech Talent Charter to run and analyse their annual Diversity in Tech surveys.
I am a computational social scientist by training and occasionally publish research on gender bias, academic indicators, behavioural interventions in surveys, and armed conflict dynamics.
I like playing the bass guitar, and recently released a short EP that you can listen to on Spotify!
It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works. —Asimov