Senior Machine Learning Engineer building end-to-end on-premise AI systems

Experience

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Databoss

METU Technopolis, Ankara

Jan 2025 – Present
  • ▸ Designing and building on-premise LLM chatbot infrastructure with self-hosted model serving via vLLM.
  • ▸ Developing production chatbot applications and user interfaces with Chainlit and OpenWebUI.
  • ▸ Implementing observability, tracing, and monitoring for LLM systems using OpenTelemetry, Grafana, and Langfuse.
vLLM Chainlit OpenWebUI OpenTelemetry Grafana Langfuse

Machine Learning Engineer

Databoss

METU Technopolis, Ankara

Jul 2021 – Jan 2025
  • ▸ Designed and deployed end-to-end machine learning pipelines for production workloads.
  • ▸ Developed time-series forecasting models for operational use cases.
  • ▸ Tracked experiments and model lifecycle with MLflow.
  • ▸ Implemented model observability for online and offline drift detection.
Python PyTorch Pandas MLflow Docker

Software Engineer

Havelsan

Mustafa Kemal Mah., Ankara

Oct 2020 – Jul 2021
  • ▸ Participated in important simulation projects using C++.
  • ▸ Built applications with Qt.
C++ Qt

Data Scientist Intern

JotForm Inc.

Hacettepe Technopolis, Ankara

Jun 2019 – Jul 2019
  • ▸ Found similar documents with unsupervised machine learning approaches.
Python Machine Learning

Web Developer Intern

SimLab Educational and Information Technologies

METU Technopolis, Ankara

Jun 2018 – Jul 2018
  • ▸ Developed the Intern Control Web Panel using the PHP Yii2 framework.
PHP Yii2

Education

M.Sc., Computer Engineering

Middle East Technical University

Ankara, Türkiye

GPA: 3.57/4

Oct 2020 – Jul 2023

B.Sc., Computer Engineering

Middle East Technical University

Ankara, Türkiye

GPA: 3.06/4

Sep 2015 – Jul 2020

High School

İskenderun Tosçelik Fen Lisesi

Hatay, Türkiye

GPA: 95.16/100

Sep 2011 – Jul 2015

Skills

ML/DL
Python NumPy Pandas PyTorch vLLM
Backend
FastAPI
Frontend
JavaScript Sveltekit
Databases
PostgreSQL Sqlite
Tools
Docker Kubernetes Git

Achievements

  • First Place Project in METU CENG DemoDay 2020.
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  • Master’s thesis — M.Sc. Computer Engineering.
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