Hi, I'm Halil 👋🏻

I am a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with expertise in building scalable AI systems, machine learning infrastructure, and cutting-edge GenAI applications. With a strong background in software engineering and quantitative development, I specialize in developing high-performance ML pipelines, microservices architectures, and LLM-powered solutions.

My technical skills include Python, C++, SQL, PyTorch, FastAPI, MLflow, Docker, Kubernetes, and various cloud technologies. I have extensive experience with GenAI frameworks like LangChain, OpenAI API, and LlamaIndex for building conversational AI, content generation, and RAG systems. I'm passionate about building robust AI systems that deliver real business value and solve complex problems.

I have a proven track record of leading technical teams, driving product growth, and contributing to successful fundraising efforts. My experience spans from research to production deployment, with a focus on creating reliable and scalable ML systems. Recent work includes developing conversational AI agents, LLM-powered content generation platforms, and advanced retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems for enterprise applications.

Technical Skills
  • Programming Languages:
    Python, C++, SQL, Zig, Shell Scripting
  • GenAI Applications:
    Conversational AI systems, LLM-powered content generation, RAG Systems, Voice Agents, Text Agents, Video Agents, Automated Copywriting, Semantic Search, AI-powered Analytics, Multi Agents
  • DevOps & Cloud:
    Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloudflare, Terraform, Git, CI/CD
  • ML & GenAI Frameworks:
    PyTorch, FastAPI, MLflow, scikit-learn, VAPI, Tavus, LangChain, OpenAI API, Langfuse, LlamaIndex, Transformers, Anthropic Claude API, Pinecone, ChromaDB, FAISS
  • Big Data:
    Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DuckDB, Redis, Pandas
  • Monitoring & Analytics:
    Grafana, Prometheus, ELK Stack, PowerBI, Looker, Tableau
Work Experience
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  • February 2025 - Present
    INFINIT
    Senior Machine Learning Engineer

    Leading ML efforts for automotive industry solutions, focusing on vehicle evaluation systems, conversational AI voice agents for dealerships, and LLM-powered advertisement generation platforms. Building robust MLOps pipelines with automated monitoring to enable continuous improvement of GenAI solutions.

  • January 2019 - September 2024
    Aiva Technologies
    Senior Machine Learning Engineer

    Grew from intern to technical team lead while building scalable AI music generation platform serving 50,000+ monthly active users. Architected high-performance ML pipelines and microservices, while leading technical due diligence for successful fundraising rounds.

  • June 2018 - September 2018
    Fraunhofer IAIS
    Research Intern

    Engineered innovative speech segmentation system that significantly reduced manual annotation time and was widely adopted across organizational projects.

  • June 2017 - September 2017
    Telecom ParisTech
    Research Intern

    Developed novel probabilistic model for speech enhancement that was published in ICASSP 2018, focusing on audio processing algorithm implementation and optimization.

Education
  • September 2019 - December 2021
    Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg
    MSc. in Communication and Multimedia Engineering
    GPA: 1.9/1.0 (German grading system, equivalent to distinction)
    Thesis: Data-Driven Singing Activity Detection for Music Recordings
  • September 2014 - January 2019
    Sabanci University
    BSc. in Electronics Engineering
    GPA: 3.78/4.00
    Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Probability and Statistics