AI Engineer

• Initiates a deliberate career pivot to specialize in GenAI consulting, helping companies turn vague ideas and AI hype into real, scalable products.
• Contributes to the development of an unannounced GenAI product at Mirantis—an LLM observability and experimentation platform—shaping both the feature roadmap and technical execution.
• Provides technical guidance on product architecture, LLM pipeline design, prompt workflows, and internal tooling strategies.
• Collaborates cross-functionally with product, engineering, and leadership teams to align technical feasibility with business vision.
• Supports early-stage ideation and feedback loops for AI-native features, helping move the product toward market fit and adoption.

• Achieved a 245× cost reduction by replacing an external receipt scanning vendor with an in-house Gemini 2.0 Flash-based LLM pipeline, improving field detection accuracy by 10% and enabling multilingual processing across four markets.
• Spearheaded the migration from a legacy monolithic architecture to a modular monolith with microservices, greatly enhancing scalability, maintainability, and developer velocity.
• Improved team capabilities through targeted knowledge-sharing, mentoring, and upskilling initiatives, which raised overall engineering maturity.
• Led LLM education initiatives across departments, teaching prompt design, structured output handling, and model selection, enabling teams to understand and integrate GenAI capabilities into their products.

• Engineered an AI-powered RAG-based chatbot that reduced onboarding times and boosted productivity among junior engineers.
• Enhanced system scalability by migrating heavy services to AWS Lambda, supporting higher traffic volumes without performance degradation.
• Revamped the continuous integration (CI) process, resulting in monthly cost savings of $10,000.
• Developed a dynamic system for scaling customer integration and onboarding workflows, improving operational efficiency and automation.
• Served as the DevOps Forum Ambassador, promoting knowledge sharing and best practices across 10 engineering teams.

• Developed and deployed fullstack applications using Python (Django), Celery, and AWS, ensuring robust performance and seamless integrations.
• Built responsive web interfaces with HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, and Tailwind, enhancing user experience and accessibility.
• Integrated Docker-based development environments, improving portability and deployment efficiency.
• Contributed to cross-platform solutions using Flutter for mobile applications.
• Demonstrated strong adaptability and communication skills by collaborating with distributed, cross-functional teams across multiple time zones.
• Delivered high-quality, maintainable code under tight deadlines while adhering to Agile practices and CI/CD pipelines.

Nerveblox is an AI-powered medical imaging solution designed to assist radiologists during local anaesthesia procedures by predicting and identifying relevant muscles and tissues in real time. The application combines computer vision, machine learning, and real-time analytics to enhance precision and efficiency in clinical workflows.

• Implemented both mobile and desktop application architectures to support real-time inference and visualization.
• Developed the mobile version using Flutter, integrating it with Google ML Platform for low-latency, high-performance AI predictions.
• Built a desktop clinic version of the application with analog input support to process and display predictions in real time.
• Integrated PyTorch-based models for medical image processing and inference, ensuring high accuracy and stability in clinical use cases.

• Designed and implemented product architecture for desktop, mobile, and web applications using Python (Flask, Django) and modern JavaScript frameworks such as Vue.js, React.js, and Electron.js.
• Created an AI-based product that secured a $4.7 million investment deal, marking the company’s first major investment.
• Promoted from Software Engineer to Lead Software Engineer / Head of Development after demonstrating strong technical leadership and consistent delivery excellence.
• Built an in-house experimentation platform for ML models, significantly improving testing speed and reproducibility.
• Set the team’s strategic direction, aligning software and ML initiatives with business objectives.
• Fostered collaboration between engineering and data teams to accelerate product development and innovation.

Stagetrue is a real-time audience engagement and reporting platform designed to improve the return on live events. It provides presenters with instant feedback through gauges and charts, supports interactive Q&A sessions, and delivers detailed engagement analytics for post-event insights.

• Led the technical development of Stagetrue from the ground up, including infrastructure design and tech stack implementation.
• Managed multiple cross-functional teams, coordinating development workflows and resolving technical challenges throughout the product lifecycle.
• Designed and built real-time data pipelines and visualization components to support live audience interactions and presenter feedback.
• Implemented data analytics and machine learning capabilities using PyTorch for engagement measurement and behavioral analysis.

ING Bank is a global financial institution offering banking and digital financial services to individuals and businesses. The Turkey branch focuses on leveraging technology and AI to drive innovation and enhance customer experience in financial operations.

• Improved chatbot numeric results by implementing pre-processing algorithms which are used by thousands of customers every day.
• Acted as team lead, managing collaboration between ING Bank Turkey and Bilkent University, coordinating research and development activities.

duSoft is an IT and software development company focused on providing innovative digital solutions, including custom software, web applications, and interactive media for clients in architecture, design, and enterprise sectors.

• Developed a mini platformer game using the Unity Engine, gaining experience in game mechanics, physics, and UI implementation.
• Maintained and monitored Ubuntu servers serving more than 20 active clients, ensuring system stability and uptime.
• Built a collaborative web application that allowed users — primarily architects — to paint and annotate images simultaneously in real time, adopted by 15+ architecture firms.

Coorpa is an IT services company specializing in developing cloud-based solutions for healthcare and enterprise clients, with a focus on improving operational efficiency and data accessibility.

• Contributed to the development of a cloud-based patient management system adopted by more than 10 hospitals, supporting patient data tracking and workflow automation.
• Assisted both backend and frontend teams, gaining hands-on experience across the full software stack.