AI Engineer | MSc in Computer Engineering (IT) | Creator of FersmithAI
Istanbul, Turkey
AI Engineer and SaaS Founder focused on building practical, data-driven software solutions. Holding an MSc in Information Technologies with a focus on AI applications, I leverage my background in NLP and transformer models to create real-world impact. Currently engineering FersmithAI as a solo founder — an innovative learning ecosystem designed to accelerate technical career growth.
Experience
AI Engineer
FersmithAI
Architecting FersmithAI, an innovative learning ecosystem that transforms dense technical engineering resources into personalized, adaptive audio-learning experiences and smart summaries. Engineered SkyAnalyst-AI, a modular cabin operations intelligence framework powered by RAG, ChromaDB vector storage, and DistilBART-CNN to convert unstructured flight logs into structured insights with 4x faster inference. Developed Children’s Tale Summarizer, a complete NLP pipeline and Flask application that benchmarks 15+ transformer models (optimizing ROUGE-L from 0.25 to 0.52) for segmenting Turkish stories and generating AI illustrations via Stable Diffusion.
October 2024 - Present
Data Analyst Intern
Uptrail
Completed a remote data analyst internship, gaining hands-on experience in data analysis workflows and reporting.
July 2025 - August 2025
Cabin Attendant
Turkish Airlines
Delivered consistent performance in high-stakes international operations requiring crisis management and multilingual communication. Leveraged high-stakes international operations, crisis management, and cross-functional team coordination to ensure seamless execution in complex environments.
January 2020 - Present
Translator
Freelance
Translated academic and creative texts (EN<->TR) with precision and deadline discipline. Built a strong foundation in text quality, structure, and linguistic nuance — essential in NLP.
September 2014 - December 2019
Education
Yildiz Technical University
Master's of Science
Computer Engineering - Information Technologies
GPA: 3.14/4.00
October 2023 - February 2025
Istanbul University
Bachelor's of Science
Faculty of Engineering - Chemical Engineering
September 2011 - July 2019
Anadolu University
Bachelor's of Arts
Open Education Faculty - Business Administration
September 2013 - January 2021
Skills
Programming Languages & Tools
Libraries & AI Frameworks
Hugging Face Transformers & Datasets (Model deployment & fine-tuning)
FersmithAI: Personalized AI/ML Learning PlatformIn Progress
A full-stack SaaS platform delivering personalized AI/ML learning roadmaps for technical professionals. Built solo with Next.js 14, Supabase (PostgreSQL + Auth), and Tailwind CSS. Features a 140-question adaptive assessment engine, dynamic skill graph with real-time progress tracking, and Google OAuth. Currently live as a waitlist — subscription model coming soon.
SkyAnalyst-AI: Cabin Operations Intelligence Framework
A modular NLP framework that transforms unstructured flight cabin reports into structured operational insights using RAG and abstractive summarization. Built on ChromaDB vector storage and all-MiniLM-L6-v2 embeddings for semantic retrieval across 2,500+ synthetic incident reports — enabling meaning-based search that goes beyond keyword matching. Summarization is powered by DistilBART-CNN, delivering 4x faster inference than standard BART with negligible quality loss. Includes an exploratory analytics dashboard with sentiment intensity scoring and statistical visualizations across 5 incident categories and 22 flight routes.
Children’s Tale Summarizer: NLP Pipeline & Flask Application
Fine-tuned and evaluated multiple transformer models (BERT, T5, mT5) for Turkish children’s literature. Integrated Flask API and Stable Diffusion to generate visual illustrations. 90% of users found the visuals well-aligned with the story content.
