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Kadir Göksel
Gündüz.

AI/ML Engineer & Technical Lead

Istanbul, Turkey

Innovative AI/ML Engineer specializing in machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing. I develop custom neural architectures and scalable frameworks for Computer Vision applications through cutting-edge technology. My expertise lies in optimizing feature selection and neural network components to deliver high-performance intelligent systems that solve real-world problems. I transform complex technical challenges into practical, impactful solutions that drive measurable business outcomes across various industries.

MSc Energy Science & Technology — ITU
BSc Computer & AI Engineering
Kadir Goksel Gunduz

Experience

Professional journey in AI engineering, technical leadership, and research

UMAY
Aug 2023 — Present

Autonomous Farming Vehicles Venture Leader

Leading the development of autonomous agricultural vehicles under the TUBITAK BIGG program.

  • Executing SLAM and ROS integration for autonomous farming vehicles as part of a personal venture project under the TUBITAK BIGG program
  • Developing swarm intelligence algorithms alongside AI integrations for the vehicles
  • Managing patent procedures for the prototypes being developed
ROSSLAMPythonRoboticsSwarm Intelligence
Seduss Robotics
Mar 2024 — Nov 2025

AI Engineer & Team Lead

Led a team integrating LLM-powered AI into a SaaS-based educational platform with cloud-native architecture.

  • Led team in integrating LLM into SaaS-based educational platform for personalized learning experiences
  • Managed deployment pipeline on AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, Lambda, SageMaker)
  • Developed TrOCR-based handwriting recognition system for digitizing student submissions
  • Implemented ORPO/DPO alignment training for fine-tuning domain-specific language models
  • Built PostgreSQL semantic search engine for intelligent content retrieval and recommendations
LLMAWSTrOCRORPO/DPOPostgreSQLSageMakerLambdaSaaS
Orion Twin
Apr 2025 — Aug 2025

Generative AI Engineer

Developed and deployed Virtual Try-On AI system using generative models and cloud infrastructure.

  • Built Virtual Try-On AI system enabling realistic clothing visualization on user images
  • Implemented LoRA fine-tuning techniques for efficient model adaptation and domain specialization
  • Deployed inference pipeline on AWS EC2 with optimized latency for real-time processing
  • Integrated MongoDB for managing user sessions, model metadata, and inference results
Generative AILoRAAWS EC2MongoDBVirtual Try-OnPython
Guris Holding
Dec 2023 — Mar 2024

Machine Learning Engineer

Data analysis and AI development for optimizing wind turbine fleet operational efficiency.

  • Developed energy forecasting models and executed performance optimization processes
  • Designed comprehensive control dashboards with PowerBI for wind turbine monitoring and data analysis
  • Built domain-specific LLM models for corporate needs and strategic objectives
  • Optimized corporate information processing through custom-trained models on company data
  • Developed automated document analysis and classification systems using NLP techniques
PythonMachine LearningPowerBIPyTorchTransformersBERTNLP
Arvis Technology
Jul 2022 — Sep 2022

AI & R&D Engineer (Intern)

Spectrum analysis, image processing, deep learning model development, and real-time audio classification systems.

  • Led project team in developing classifier models for gender and age classification using audio spectrums with time series, anomaly detection, and signal processing methods
  • Developed TFGAN (Time-Frequency Domain) model for synthetic voice generation and voice cloning
  • Built real-time audio classification pipeline for live signal processing
  • Developed Speech-to-Text system components with custom language model integration
  • Designed QT-based graphical user interface for audio analysis and visualization tools
TensorFlowGANsOpenCVSignal ProcessingDeep LearningAudio ProcessingQTSpeech-to-Text

Projects

Research areas and technical projects across AI domains

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NLP & LLM

Natural Language Processing and Large Language Model development including Turkish QA models, ORPO/DPO alignment training, Mixture of Experts architectures, and domain-specific fine-tuning.

PyTorchTransformersBERTORPO/DPOLoRAMOE
Turkish Paragraph QA Model
Commercial · 2024Commercially deployed Turkish language question answering system
  • Built and deployed Turkish paragraph-level QA model for production use
  • Optimized inference latency for real-time response generation
  • Commercially deployed and serving live user queries
ORPO/DPO Alignment Training
Research · 2024 – 2025Model alignment using ORPO and DPO techniques at Seduss Robotics
  • Implemented ORPO/DPO alignment training for domain-specific LLMs
  • Evolutionary optimization for hyperparameter search
  • Explored Mixture of Experts (MOE) architectures
Domain Specific LLM @ Guris Holding
Industry · Dec 2023 – Mar 2024Enterprise LLM solutions for corporate needs
  • Domain-specific LLM models for corporate requirements
  • Automated document analysis and classification using NLP
Speech Processing @ Arvis Technology
Research · Jul – Sep 2022Audio spectrum analysis and Speech-to-Text systems
  • Gender and age classification from audio spectrograms
  • Speech-to-Text system with custom language model integration

Project Timeline

A chronological view of research and development work

2025

Virtual Try-On AI System

Apr – Aug 2025

Educational LLM Platform with TrOCR

2024 – 2025

PostgreSQL Semantic Search Engine

2024 – 2025
2024

TEKNOFEST AI Competition — 4th Place

2024

AWS Cloud & Serverless Architecture

2024

Turkish QA Model (Commercial)

2024

Advanced LLM Conversation System

2024

Wind Turbine Energy Forecasting

Dec 2023 – Mar 2024

ORPO/DPO Model Alignment

2024
2023

UMAY Autonomous Farming Launch

Aug 2023

CV for Autonomous Navigation

Dec 2023

Transformer NLP for Medical Data

Sep 2023

ESRGAN Super Resolution (MSc Thesis)

2023

Forward-Forward Algorithm + PPO

2023

Transformer Policy Optimization

2023
2022

TFGAN Voice Synthesis & Cloning

Jul – Sep 2022

RL for Robotic Control (Unity A2C)

2022

Image-to-Image GAN (Canik Municipality)

2022

Swarm Intelligence Path Planning

Mar 2022

Speech-to-Text & QT Interface

Jul – Sep 2022
2021

YOLO-Inspired Detection Framework

2021

CNN-Transformer Hybrid Architecture

2021

Time Series Neural Network

Oct 2021

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