EN TR

Merhaba, ben
Ayberk.

Makine öğrenmesi sistemleri ve etraflarındaki araçları geliştiriyorum — eğitim hatlarından üstteki cilalı ürüne kadar. Hızlı, güvenilir ve kullanması gerçekten hoş şeyler üretmeye önem veriyorum.

SYSTEMS
Jan 2026 – Present

LeaveManager: A Desktop Leave System Running Real Government Offices

A .NET 8 desktop application that encodes Turkish leave law and office rules into one tool, built for a single manager and now used organically to manage around 60 people across multiple government offices.

.NET 8C#WPFSQLiteADO.NETClosedXMLClickOnce
EMBEDDED
Sep 2024 – Jan 2025

Real-Time IoT People Counting: Two Architectures for the Same Problem

An IoT people-counting pipeline implemented two opposite ways, server-side inference versus on-device edge inference, to measure the compute-versus-bandwidth tradeoff.

PythonRaspberry PiYOLOv5YOLOv3-tinyFlaskFastAPIOpenCVPyTorch
TOOLS
Feb – Jun 2025

GhostDJ: A Music Player You Control by Waving Your Hand

A webcam-based music player with no buttons and no gesture classifier, the entire interface is built from tracking two fingertips and a dwell timer, using hand-landmark detection and spatial hit-testing.

PythonOpenCVMediaPipeNumPyPygame
ML
Sep 2024 – Jan 2025

Real-Time Fall Detection for Elderly Care Homes Using GRU Networks

A real-time, server-side pipeline that monitors elderly care home residents through their smartphones and alerts staff the moment a fall is confirmed, built with a Flask/Flask-SocketIO server and a PyTorch GRU model, containerized with Docker.

PythonFlaskFlask-SocketIOGRUPyTorchDocker
HARDWARE
Sep 2024 – Jun 2025

Mobile 12-Lead ECG Platform

A solo, full-stack real-time electrocardiography system. A custom STM32 and ADS1292R analog front end streams cardiac signals over USB to a Flutter application that renders twelve leads on a calibrated medical grid at 60 fps, fully offline.

STM32F103ADS1292RC / C++ firmwareTinyUSBFlutterDartUSB serial
SYSTEMS
Sep 2024 – Jan 2025

ChatUp: A Spring Boot + React Native Chat Application

A two-tier chat application with a Java Spring Boot REST API, MongoDB, and an Expo/React Native client, featuring JWT authentication and friend-gated messaging.

JavaSpring BootMongoDBSpring SecurityJWTReact NativeExpoTypeScript
SYSTEMS
Sep 2024 – Jan 2025

SneakPeek: A Microservice E-Commerce Platform

A full-featured online sneaker store built by a team of six over seven Scrum sprints, with a NestJS microservice backend, gRPC service mesh, and Kafka event backbone.

NestJSgRPCNext.js 13Apache KafkaMySQLMongoDBDockerGPTapi
HARDWARE
Sep 2022 – Jan 2023

An FPGA Elevator Control System in Verilog

A complete elevator control system for a 5-floor building, written in Verilog and implemented on a Nexys A7 FPGA, with direction-aware request scheduling.

VerilogXilinx VivadoNexys A7 FPGADigital Design

YETENEKLER

DİLLER
PythonC++CUDARustGoTypeScriptSQL
ML / AI
PyTorchTritonTransformersLangChainvLLMONNX
ALTYAPI
DockerKubernetesPostgresRedisTerraformGitHub ActionsCloudflare

DENEYİM

EĞİTİM

Full Stack Developer Intern

Jul 2024 — Oct 2024
Mimiqit Oy (Espoo, Finland)

Took a two-person team’s social app from concept to launch, building the database, auth, and core social features end to end.

  • Part of a two-person team that designed and launched CyphrSpace, a social media app, from concept to full release.
  • Designed and managed the database using Firebase and AWS for user interactions and media content.
  • Implemented user authentication, including sign-in, sign-up, and backend services for managing accounts.
  • Built following, messaging, comments, likes, and shares functionality.
  • Built and optimized profile management — editing profiles, following others, and managing settings.
  • Created video recording/publishing features and image editing tools, including cropping and camera access.

Food & Beverage Attendant

Jun 2023 — Oct 2023
Cinder House, Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis (MO, USA)
Mühendislik dışı

Covered food runner, barback, banquet server, and pool server responsibilities in a luxury hotel environment, consistently adapting to operational needs while maintaining high service standards during workloads of up to 100 hours per week.

  • Undertook food runner, barback, banquet server, and pool server roles, demonstrating adaptability and teamwork in a fast-paced elite Hotel setting.
  • Developed strong teamwork skills, English speaking proficiency, multitasking skills, and the ability to work under intense pressure up to 100 hours per week.

Food & Beverage Attendant

Jul 2023 — Oct 2023
21c Hotels (St. Louis, MO, USA)
Mühendislik dışı

Picked up part-time busser, food runner, and barback shifts at 21c Hotels, keeping the restaurant and bar running smoothly during busy service.

  • Worked part-time across busser, food runner, and barback roles, helping the restaurant and bar stay on top of a fast-paced hospitality environment.

Linen Attendant

Jul 2023 — Oct 2023
Marriott St. Louis Grand (St. Louis, MO, USA)
Mühendislik dışı

Worked part-time as a Linen Attendant at the Marriott St. Louis Grand, keeping linen supply and turnover running smoothly across the hotel.

  • Handled sorting, counting, and restocking linen across the hotel, helping housekeeping operations run on schedule during busy periods.

Research Assistant

Sep 2022 — Feb 2023
PURE: Program for Undergraduate Research (Istanbul, Turkiye)

Ran an NLP study on employee survey data to surface what drives organizational trust and engagement.

  • Conducted an academic research study using NLP to process and evaluate 1,120 open-ended employee survey responses from 60 organizations.
  • Used sentiment analysis, BERTopic-based topic modeling, and exploratory clustering techniques.
  • Identified key drivers of organizational trust and workforce engagement.

Backend Developer Intern

Jun 2022 — Sep 2022
OdakGIS (Ankara, Turkiye)

Helped build the backend for a national-scale data management and analysis project alongside senior engineers.

  • Worked on a national-scale project involving data management and analysis.
  • Collaborated with senior backend developers to develop RESTful APIs for a new project using ASP.NET Core MVC framework and C#.
  • Participated in designing and optimizing database schema for improved performance and scalability.
  • Collaborated closely with frontend developers to integrate backend functionalities into the user interface.
  • Contributed to code reviews, provided feedback and suggestions for code optimization and maintainability.

Master of Engineering

Sep 2026 — Jun 2027
University of California, Los Angeles

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Sep 2021 — Jun 2025
Sabancı University · Istanbul

Dean’s List (High Honors) · GPA 3.69 / 4.00 · Honor Scholarship recipient (full tuition, merit-based).

  • Ranked in the top 0.04% (first 1,000) among approximately 2.6 million candidates in the 2021 Turkish national university entrance exam (YKS), earning a 4-year scholarship to Sabancı University.
İlgili dersler ve projeler
  • Computational Approach to Problem-Solving (Python)
  • Advanced Programming (C++)
  • Logic & Digital System Design (Verilog)
  • Introduction to Data Science (Python, Data Extraction, Feature Engineering)
  • Mobile Application Development (Java, Kotlin)
  • Systems Modelling & Control (MATLAB, Simulink)
  • Internet of Things (Edge Computing, BERT, GRU Networks)
  • Programming Languages (Flex, Bison, Ada)
  • Database Systems (MySQL)
  • Machine Learning (Unsupervised Learning, CNNs)
  • Software Engineering (Agile Practices, Scrum, CI/CD, Containerization, Microservices)
  • Data Structures and Algorithms
EN TR

Merhaba, ben
Ayberk.

Makine öğrenmesi sistemleri ve etraflarındaki araçları geliştiriyorum — eğitim hatlarından üstteki cilalı ürüne kadar. Hızlı, güvenilir ve kullanması gerçekten hoş şeyler üretmeye önem veriyorum.

SYSTEMS
Jan 2026 – Present

LeaveManager: A Desktop Leave System Running Real Government Offices

A .NET 8 desktop application that encodes Turkish leave law and office rules into one tool, built for a single manager and now used organically to manage around 60 people across multiple government offices.

.NET 8C#WPFSQLiteADO.NETClosedXMLClickOnce
EMBEDDED
Sep 2024 – Jan 2025

Real-Time IoT People Counting: Two Architectures for the Same Problem

An IoT people-counting pipeline implemented two opposite ways, server-side inference versus on-device edge inference, to measure the compute-versus-bandwidth tradeoff.

PythonRaspberry PiYOLOv5YOLOv3-tinyFlaskFastAPIOpenCVPyTorch
TOOLS
Feb – Jun 2025

GhostDJ: A Music Player You Control by Waving Your Hand

A webcam-based music player with no buttons and no gesture classifier, the entire interface is built from tracking two fingertips and a dwell timer, using hand-landmark detection and spatial hit-testing.

PythonOpenCVMediaPipeNumPyPygame
ML
Sep 2024 – Jan 2025

Real-Time Fall Detection for Elderly Care Homes Using GRU Networks

A real-time, server-side pipeline that monitors elderly care home residents through their smartphones and alerts staff the moment a fall is confirmed, built with a Flask/Flask-SocketIO server and a PyTorch GRU model, containerized with Docker.

PythonFlaskFlask-SocketIOGRUPyTorchDocker
HARDWARE
Sep 2024 – Jun 2025

Mobile 12-Lead ECG Platform

A solo, full-stack real-time electrocardiography system. A custom STM32 and ADS1292R analog front end streams cardiac signals over USB to a Flutter application that renders twelve leads on a calibrated medical grid at 60 fps, fully offline.

STM32F103ADS1292RC / C++ firmwareTinyUSBFlutterDartUSB serial
SYSTEMS
Sep 2024 – Jan 2025

ChatUp: A Spring Boot + React Native Chat Application

A two-tier chat application with a Java Spring Boot REST API, MongoDB, and an Expo/React Native client, featuring JWT authentication and friend-gated messaging.

JavaSpring BootMongoDBSpring SecurityJWTReact NativeExpoTypeScript
SYSTEMS
Sep 2024 – Jan 2025

SneakPeek: A Microservice E-Commerce Platform

A full-featured online sneaker store built by a team of six over seven Scrum sprints, with a NestJS microservice backend, gRPC service mesh, and Kafka event backbone.

NestJSgRPCNext.js 13Apache KafkaMySQLMongoDBDockerGPTapi
HARDWARE
Sep 2022 – Jan 2023

An FPGA Elevator Control System in Verilog

A complete elevator control system for a 5-floor building, written in Verilog and implemented on a Nexys A7 FPGA, with direction-aware request scheduling.

VerilogXilinx VivadoNexys A7 FPGADigital Design

YETENEKLER

DİLLER
PythonC++CUDARustGoTypeScriptSQL
ML / AI
PyTorchTritonTransformersLangChainvLLMONNX
ALTYAPI
DockerKubernetesPostgresRedisTerraformGitHub ActionsCloudflare

DENEYİM

EĞİTİM

Full Stack Developer Intern

Jul 2024 — Oct 2024
Mimiqit Oy (Espoo, Finland)

Took a two-person team’s social app from concept to launch, building the database, auth, and core social features end to end.

  • Part of a two-person team that designed and launched CyphrSpace, a social media app, from concept to full release.
  • Designed and managed the database using Firebase and AWS for user interactions and media content.
  • Implemented user authentication, including sign-in, sign-up, and backend services for managing accounts.
  • Built following, messaging, comments, likes, and shares functionality.
  • Built and optimized profile management — editing profiles, following others, and managing settings.
  • Created video recording/publishing features and image editing tools, including cropping and camera access.

Food & Beverage Attendant

Jun 2023 — Oct 2023
Cinder House, Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis (MO, USA)
Mühendislik dışı

Covered food runner, barback, banquet server, and pool server responsibilities in a luxury hotel environment, consistently adapting to operational needs while maintaining high service standards during workloads of up to 100 hours per week.

  • Undertook food runner, barback, banquet server, and pool server roles, demonstrating adaptability and teamwork in a fast-paced elite Hotel setting.
  • Developed strong teamwork skills, English speaking proficiency, multitasking skills, and the ability to work under intense pressure up to 100 hours per week.

Food & Beverage Attendant

Jul 2023 — Oct 2023
21c Hotels (St. Louis, MO, USA)
Mühendislik dışı

Picked up part-time busser, food runner, and barback shifts at 21c Hotels, keeping the restaurant and bar running smoothly during busy service.

  • Worked part-time across busser, food runner, and barback roles, helping the restaurant and bar stay on top of a fast-paced hospitality environment.

Linen Attendant

Jul 2023 — Oct 2023
Marriott St. Louis Grand (St. Louis, MO, USA)
Mühendislik dışı

Worked part-time as a Linen Attendant at the Marriott St. Louis Grand, keeping linen supply and turnover running smoothly across the hotel.

  • Handled sorting, counting, and restocking linen across the hotel, helping housekeeping operations run on schedule during busy periods.

Research Assistant

Sep 2022 — Feb 2023
PURE: Program for Undergraduate Research (Istanbul, Turkiye)

Ran an NLP study on employee survey data to surface what drives organizational trust and engagement.

  • Conducted an academic research study using NLP to process and evaluate 1,120 open-ended employee survey responses from 60 organizations.
  • Used sentiment analysis, BERTopic-based topic modeling, and exploratory clustering techniques.
  • Identified key drivers of organizational trust and workforce engagement.

Backend Developer Intern

Jun 2022 — Sep 2022
OdakGIS (Ankara, Turkiye)

Helped build the backend for a national-scale data management and analysis project alongside senior engineers.

  • Worked on a national-scale project involving data management and analysis.
  • Collaborated with senior backend developers to develop RESTful APIs for a new project using ASP.NET Core MVC framework and C#.
  • Participated in designing and optimizing database schema for improved performance and scalability.
  • Collaborated closely with frontend developers to integrate backend functionalities into the user interface.
  • Contributed to code reviews, provided feedback and suggestions for code optimization and maintainability.

Master of Engineering

Sep 2026 — Jun 2027
University of California, Los Angeles

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Sep 2021 — Jun 2025
Sabancı University · Istanbul

Dean’s List (High Honors) · GPA 3.69 / 4.00 · Honor Scholarship recipient (full tuition, merit-based).

  • Ranked in the top 0.04% (first 1,000) among approximately 2.6 million candidates in the 2021 Turkish national university entrance exam (YKS), earning a 4-year scholarship to Sabancı University.
İlgili dersler ve projeler
  • Computational Approach to Problem-Solving (Python)
  • Advanced Programming (C++)
  • Logic & Digital System Design (Verilog)
  • Introduction to Data Science (Python, Data Extraction, Feature Engineering)
  • Mobile Application Development (Java, Kotlin)
  • Systems Modelling & Control (MATLAB, Simulink)
  • Internet of Things (Edge Computing, BERT, GRU Networks)
  • Programming Languages (Flex, Bison, Ada)
  • Database Systems (MySQL)
  • Machine Learning (Unsupervised Learning, CNNs)
  • Software Engineering (Agile Practices, Scrum, CI/CD, Containerization, Microservices)
  • Data Structures and Algorithms
ayberk@dev:~$ whoami

Merhaba, ben Ayberk

Makine öğrenmesi sistemleri ve etraflarındaki araçları geliştiriyorum — eğitim hatlarından üstteki cilalı ürüne kadar. Hızlı, güvenilir ve kullanması gerçekten hoş şeyler üretmeye önem veriyorum.

~/projects$ ls -la — 8 repos
tüm projeleri gör →

LeaveManager: A Desktop Leave System Running Real Government Offices

SYSTEMS
Jan 2026 – Present

A .NET 8 desktop application that encodes Turkish leave law and office rules into one tool, built for a single manager and now used organically to manage around 60 people across multiple government offices.

#.NET 8#C##WPF#SQLite#ADO.NET#ClosedXML#ClickOnce

Real-Time IoT People Counting: Two Architectures for the Same Problem

EMBEDDED
Sep 2024 – Jan 2025

An IoT people-counting pipeline implemented two opposite ways, server-side inference versus on-device edge inference, to measure the compute-versus-bandwidth tradeoff.

#Python#Raspberry Pi#YOLOv5#YOLOv3-tiny#Flask#FastAPI#OpenCV#PyTorch

GhostDJ: A Music Player You Control by Waving Your Hand

TOOLS
Feb – Jun 2025

A webcam-based music player with no buttons and no gesture classifier, the entire interface is built from tracking two fingertips and a dwell timer, using hand-landmark detection and spatial hit-testing.

#Python#OpenCV#MediaPipe#NumPy#Pygame

Real-Time Fall Detection for Elderly Care Homes Using GRU Networks

ML
Sep 2024 – Jan 2025

A real-time, server-side pipeline that monitors elderly care home residents through their smartphones and alerts staff the moment a fall is confirmed, built with a Flask/Flask-SocketIO server and a PyTorch GRU model, containerized with Docker.

#Python#Flask#Flask-SocketIO#GRU#PyTorch#Docker

Mobile 12-Lead ECG Platform

HARDWARE
Sep 2024 – Jun 2025

A solo, full-stack real-time electrocardiography system. A custom STM32 and ADS1292R analog front end streams cardiac signals over USB to a Flutter application that renders twelve leads on a calibrated medical grid at 60 fps, fully offline.

#STM32F103#ADS1292R#C / C++ firmware#TinyUSB#Flutter#Dart#USB serial

ChatUp: A Spring Boot + React Native Chat Application

SYSTEMS
Sep 2024 – Jan 2025

A two-tier chat application with a Java Spring Boot REST API, MongoDB, and an Expo/React Native client, featuring JWT authentication and friend-gated messaging.

#Java#Spring Boot#MongoDB#Spring Security#JWT#React Native#Expo#TypeScript

SneakPeek: A Microservice E-Commerce Platform

SYSTEMS
Sep 2024 – Jan 2025

A full-featured online sneaker store built by a team of six over seven Scrum sprints, with a NestJS microservice backend, gRPC service mesh, and Kafka event backbone.

#NestJS#gRPC#Next.js 13#Apache Kafka#MySQL#MongoDB#Docker#GPTapi

An FPGA Elevator Control System in Verilog

HARDWARE
Sep 2022 – Jan 2023

A complete elevator control system for a 5-floor building, written in Verilog and implemented on a Nexys A7 FPGA, with direction-aware request scheduling.

#Verilog#Xilinx Vivado#Nexys A7 FPGA#Digital Design
~/skills$ cat stack.json
"DİLLER": [
PythonC++CUDARustGoTypeScriptSQL
]
"ML / AI": [
PyTorchTritonTransformersLangChainvLLMONNX
]
"ALTYAPI": [
DockerKubernetesPostgresRedisTerraformGitHub ActionsCloudflare
]
~/experience$ git log
~/education$ cat edu
Jul 2024 — Oct 2024

Full Stack Developer Intern

Mimiqit Oy (Espoo, Finland)

Took a two-person team’s social app from concept to launch, building the database, auth, and core social features end to end.

  • Part of a two-person team that designed and launched CyphrSpace, a social media app, from concept to full release.
  • Designed and managed the database using Firebase and AWS for user interactions and media content.
  • Implemented user authentication, including sign-in, sign-up, and backend services for managing accounts.
  • Built following, messaging, comments, likes, and shares functionality.
  • Built and optimized profile management — editing profiles, following others, and managing settings.
  • Created video recording/publishing features and image editing tools, including cropping and camera access.
Jun 2023 — Oct 2023

Food & Beverage Attendant

Cinder House, Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis (MO, USA)
// mühendislik dışı

Covered food runner, barback, banquet server, and pool server responsibilities in a luxury hotel environment, consistently adapting to operational needs while maintaining high service standards during workloads of up to 100 hours per week.

  • Undertook food runner, barback, banquet server, and pool server roles, demonstrating adaptability and teamwork in a fast-paced elite Hotel setting.
  • Developed strong teamwork skills, English speaking proficiency, multitasking skills, and the ability to work under intense pressure up to 100 hours per week.
Jul 2023 — Oct 2023

Food & Beverage Attendant

21c Hotels (St. Louis, MO, USA)
// mühendislik dışı

Picked up part-time busser, food runner, and barback shifts at 21c Hotels, keeping the restaurant and bar running smoothly during busy service.

  • Worked part-time across busser, food runner, and barback roles, helping the restaurant and bar stay on top of a fast-paced hospitality environment.
Jul 2023 — Oct 2023

Linen Attendant

Marriott St. Louis Grand (St. Louis, MO, USA)
// mühendislik dışı

Worked part-time as a Linen Attendant at the Marriott St. Louis Grand, keeping linen supply and turnover running smoothly across the hotel.

  • Handled sorting, counting, and restocking linen across the hotel, helping housekeeping operations run on schedule during busy periods.
Sep 2022 — Feb 2023

Research Assistant

PURE: Program for Undergraduate Research (Istanbul, Turkiye)

Ran an NLP study on employee survey data to surface what drives organizational trust and engagement.

  • Conducted an academic research study using NLP to process and evaluate 1,120 open-ended employee survey responses from 60 organizations.
  • Used sentiment analysis, BERTopic-based topic modeling, and exploratory clustering techniques.
  • Identified key drivers of organizational trust and workforce engagement.
Jun 2022 — Sep 2022

Backend Developer Intern

OdakGIS (Ankara, Turkiye)

Helped build the backend for a national-scale data management and analysis project alongside senior engineers.

  • Worked on a national-scale project involving data management and analysis.
  • Collaborated with senior backend developers to develop RESTful APIs for a new project using ASP.NET Core MVC framework and C#.
  • Participated in designing and optimizing database schema for improved performance and scalability.
  • Collaborated closely with frontend developers to integrate backend functionalities into the user interface.
  • Contributed to code reviews, provided feedback and suggestions for code optimization and maintainability.

Master of Engineering

Sep 2026 — Jun 2027
University of California, Los Angeles

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Sep 2021 — Jun 2025
Sabancı University · Istanbul

Dean’s List (High Honors) · GPA 3.69 / 4.00 · Honor Scholarship recipient (full tuition, merit-based).

  • Ranked in the top 0.04% (first 1,000) among approximately 2.6 million candidates in the 2021 Turkish national university entrance exam (YKS), earning a 4-year scholarship to Sabancı University.
İlgili dersler ve projeler
  • Computational Approach to Problem-Solving (Python)
  • Advanced Programming (C++)
  • Logic & Digital System Design (Verilog)
  • Introduction to Data Science (Python, Data Extraction, Feature Engineering)
  • Mobile Application Development (Java, Kotlin)
  • Systems Modelling & Control (MATLAB, Simulink)
  • Internet of Things (Edge Computing, BERT, GRU Networks)
  • Programming Languages (Flex, Bison, Ada)
  • Database Systems (MySQL)
  • Machine Learning (Unsupervised Learning, CNNs)
  • Software Engineering (Agile Practices, Scrum, CI/CD, Containerization, Microservices)
  • Data Structures and Algorithms