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Mehmet Ünlü

I study Electronics and Communication Engineering at ITU and build hands-on projects around forecasting, computer vision, and making data workflows faster.

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3rd-year Electronics and Communication Engineering student at Istanbul Technical University building ML/AI systems: real-time UAV perception (YOLOv8, RAFT/EKF visual odometry) as Team Captain for TEKNOFEST Havacılıkta Yapay Zeka, and two-stage LightGBM forecasting of intermittent demand for a 20K+ SKU spare-parts catalogue. Focused on real-time inference, model evaluation, and performance optimization, with monitoring and production-readiness experience.

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Experience

Full-Stack / AI Engineer

Dec 2025 - Present

Vcamp

  • Served as Team Captain for the TEKNOFEST Havacılıkta Yapay Zeka (AI in Aviation) Competition, defining the system architecture and coordinating the object-detection, position-estimation, and reference-object-matching workstreams.
  • Designed a hybrid visual odometry pipeline combining ORB/optical flow and RAFT-based motion estimation with confidence-aware arbitration and iterative EKF fusion, achieving approximately 7.5 FPS on custom drone footage.
  • Built an RGB/thermal aerial reference-object matching pipeline and fine-tuned YOLOv8 over seven training rounds to reach 0.749 mAP50 at approximately 36 ms per frame inference.
  • Led the four-class UAV object-detection subsystem, including dataset architecture, training strategy, and validation criteria, on a dataset containing more than 35K images.
  • Designed the competition's unified real-time client, integrating the three subsystems behind a modular inference pipeline with a competition-compliant JSON submission format.

AI Specialist Assistant

Dec 2025 - Oct 2026

Ravelos

  • Built an intermittent-demand forecasting system for a 20K+ SKU spare-parts catalogue with approximately 1.4M transaction lines and 94% zero cells at daily grain.
  • Improved forecast accuracy from 14% to approximately 55% across 26 benchmarked variants, reducing WAPE to 0.543 from a 0.628 last-year baseline.
  • Designed a two-stage LightGBM hurdle architecture for demand occurrence and non-zero quantity, with SBC-adaptive thresholds and leakage-safe recursive multi-step inference.
  • Engineered approximately 25 features, including Croston, ADI/CV², rolling and lag windows, and zero-run streaks; used Numba JIT, cutoff-masked feature generation, and fold-local SBC labels.
  • Built evaluation and monitoring infrastructure with monthly vintage fact tables, FastAPI, Grafana dashboards, restatement detection, and champion/challenger shadow evaluation.
  • Optimized the multi-model pipeline with joblib process parallelism, float32 downcasting, vectorized rank/correlation computation, and O(1) lookup maps replacing O(P) scans, with parity tests preserving output.

AI Systems & Performance Engineering

Sep 2026 - Present

TUARIQ

  • Audited production readiness across backups, migrations, deployment, health checks, testing, dependency consistency, and the repository's handling of secrets and large artifacts.
  • Developing a phased, test-gated improvement plan covering reliable backups, migration recovery, deployment rollback, meaningful readiness checks, CI testing, and observability.
  • Analyzed synchronous API workflows that block a single-worker API for 4–65 seconds per file; scoped worker/queue-based execution and measurement as performance priorities.
  • Documented repository and service refactoring priorities, keeping behavior-changing work separate from hygiene and structural improvements.

Data Analytics Intern

Jul 2026 - Aug 2026

Sompo Sigorta

  • Built an end-to-end cross-sell propensity pipeline in KNIME with period-aware data-quality screening, rolling quantile binning against the previous month's breakpoints, and target-preserving category consolidation.
  • Benchmarked decision tree, GBM, and WoE-based logistic regression under forward/backward feature selection and Gini elimination, evaluated across separate time windows.
  • Developed a loss-adjuster amount regression under strict leakage control using time-ordered splits and train-only imputation; handled a heavily right-skewed target via log transformation, reducing skewness from 5.45 to 0.26, and evaluated Tweedie, Gamma, Poisson, and two-stage hurdle architectures.
  • Componentized the pipeline into a single parameter-driven run generalizable to new datasets and authored internal reports on workflow automation tooling, including n8n and KNIME Business Hub, covering KVKK, access control, and deployment.

Projects

Bilirkişi — Auditable AI Analytics Platform: Designed a two-plane analytics architecture that separates LLM-assisted reasoning from deterministic execution, keeping numerical calculations, validation, and decisions reproducible. Implemented provenance controls, including data-quality gates, typed contracts, deterministic command execution, structured fact references, and hash-based audit evidence for analytical results.
SketchMind — Multimodal AI, Mobile, and Embedded Companion System: Built a Flutter application integrating AI-assisted storytelling, speech interfaces, Firebase services, and a server-side proxy that keeps API credentials out of the client. Designed real-time mobile-to-ESP32 companion communication through mDNS discovery and WebSockets, supported by firmware, a local simulator, and automated tests. Additional projects and technical work: www.unlumehmet.com

Education

B.Sc. in Electronics and Communication Engineering (GPA: 3.29/4.00)

Istanbul Technical University (ITU) · Expected Graduation: 2028

Skills

Machine LearningDeep LearningComputer VisionTime-Series ForecastingIntermittent Demand ForecastingNatural Language ProcessingMLOpsReal-Time InferencePerformance EngineeringModel EvaluationProduction ReadinessMonitoring

Tools

PythonCC#DartSQLPyTorchTensorFlowScikit-learnLightGBMNumPyPandasFastAPIOpenCVNumbaPostgreSQLGrafanaFlutterFirebaseGitLinuxKNIME

Certifications

Deep Learning Algorithm with PyTorch - BTK Akademi, June 2025
Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning - BTK Akademi, July 2025

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