Istanbul, Turkey

• Maintain or create Upstash SDKs - skills, agentkit, workflow, workflow-agents, redis, ratelimit, qstash, vector, redis-analytics, and box.
• Work across the Upstash Console, the upstash.com, and the documentation.
• Write blog posts and build demos like DegreeGuru and the Hacker News Eve agent, among others.
• Keep track of the latest in the TypeScript and Next.js ecosystem.
• Help agents and users get the most out of Upstash solutions.

• Next.js
• Vercel
• Redis
• TypeScript
• Cloudflare

Istanbul, Turkey

• Optimized time series forecasting by designing PySpark modules - outlier detection, DataDog reporting, and price-feature calculations - cutting runtime by 87.5% in the outlier-detection case, largely thanks to an incremental sliding-window mean and standard deviation.
• Built an AI explainability app with Streamlit to interpret ML forecasts.
• Integrated ML interpretability into the team’s MLFlow plugin.

• Python
• PySpark
• MLFlow
• Streamlit
• DataDog
• Airflow
• Jenkins
• Databricks

Istanbul, Turkey

• Led the development of an instance segmentation pipeline for microscopic images of thread cross-sections, from dataset annotation through model training.
• Created an annotated image dataset, trained CE-Net and Mask-RCNN models on it, and combined them with image-processing methods into a segmentation pipeline.

• Python
• OpenCV
• TensorFlow
• scikit-learn

Istanbul, Turkey

• Worked on time series forecasting for ATM demand, implementing the TabTransformer - a deep-learning architecture for tabular data - in Keras.
• My TabTransformer implementation was added to the company’s model collection and featured in a textbook on deep learning with tabular data.

• Python
• TensorFlow
• Keras
• scikit-learn
• pandas

Istanbul, Turkey

• GPA 3.72 / 4.0
• Coursework in machine learning, information retrieval, graph theory, game theory, cybersecurity, and data structures & algorithms.
• Graduation project: A Comprehensive Analysis of Static Word Embeddings for Turkish.
• Erasmus exchange student at the University of Twente, Netherlands (Fall 2021).