About Me
Backend Engineer at NITS — sole backend engineer on the GPI platform serving 5+ government entities. On my own time, I run FastAPI demos and self-hosted Supabase on a Minisforum UN1290 at $0/mo cloud cost. Currently finishing my B.Sc. in Software Engineering at Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul.
Currently building
Currently building Doc Q&A with LangGraph orchestration on self-hosted Supabase, plus internal IDMS on FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and Qdrant.
Research interests
- ▸Agentic AI orchestration with LangGraph — currently building in Doc Q&A.
- ▸Weak-supervision pipelines and label auditing — applied in Fashion Attribute Recognition with a 210-row manual audit and macro-F1 0.765.
- ▸Applied ML on self-hosted infrastructure — Minisforum UN1290, i9-12900HK, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB NVMe, $0/mo deploy via Cloudflare Tunnel.
Supervised research
Working with a BAU faculty advisor on multi-head vision research for Fashion Attribute Recognition, Apr 2026.
Credentials
GRE 161Q, Q1 2026 · TOEFL iBT 100/120, Apr 2026 · DeepLearning.ai Deep Learning Specialization, Dec 2025 – Mar 2026.
Languages
Arabic, native · English, native · Turkish, learning.
Links
Education
B.Sc. Software Engineering
Bahçeşehir University · Istanbul, Turkey
Sep 2022 – Jun 2026
Minor: Optimization (Industrial Engineering) · Feb 2025 – Jun 2026
Deep Learning Specialization
DeepLearning.ai · Dec 2025 – Mar 2026
Experience
Backend Engineer
National Information Technology Services (NITS)
Damascus, Syria (Hybrid)
June 2025 – Present
- ▸Architected the Government Performance Index (GPI) platform for cybersecurity assessment across 5+ government entities.
- ▸Designed multi-tenant data isolation, built 70+ REST APIs with five-tier RBAC and organization-scoped JWT authentication.
- ▸Optimized database performance with indexing strategies and pillar-based scoring aggregation at organization and sector levels.
Selected Projects
Doc Q&A
Supabase · PostgreSQL · pgvector · Deno Edge Functions · React · TypeScript · Docker
Jan 2026 – Present
- ▸Multi-tenant RAG SaaS on self-hosted infrastructure — zero cloud cost, per-tenant PostgreSQL schema isolation, document chunking, vector search, and streaming LLM chat with sliding-window history.
- ▸Serverless TypeScript edge functions on self-hosted Supabase (13-container Docker stack on dedicated Ubuntu server)
Fashion Attribute Recognition
PyTorch · DINOv2 · Marqo-FashionSigLIP · ViT
Apr 2026
- ▸DINOv2 ViT-B/14 fine-tuned on 13,355-image TextileNet subset.
- ▸macro-F1 0.765 across color, pattern, material, texture; +11.6 pp over ResNet-50 baseline.
IDMS — Intelligent Document Management System
FastAPI · PostgreSQL · Qdrant · Redis · Docker · GitHub Actions
Dec 2025 – Present
- ▸Async Python backend with FastAPI, SQLModel, and asyncpg in a 5-service Docker Compose stack (PostgreSQL, Redis, Qdrant, FastAPI, React)
- ▸JWT auth with bcrypt, timing-safe login, RBAC, and PDF upload with magic-byte validation
Pose Estimation Research
Python · MediaPipe · YOLOv8-Pose · OpenCV
March 2026
- ▸Benchmarked MediaPipe (33 keypoints) vs YOLOv8-Pose (17 keypoints) on latency, accuracy, and model size for real-time exercise tracking.
- ▸Shipped the live Squat Counter API with MediaPipe Pose Landmarker only; YOLOv8-Pose stayed in the research comparison.
Autonomous Driving RL Agent
Python · PyTorch · Stable-Baselines3 · Gymnasium · highway-env
January 2026
- ▸Achieved 97% crash rate reduction (98% → 3%) and 18× survival time increase over 200k training steps using Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) with CUDA-accelerated training on RTX 3050
- ▸Designed multi-objective reward function (V6) balancing speed, safety, lane discipline, and collision avoidance — then diagnosed a degenerate slow-driving policy through mathematical break-even analysis proving slow driving was optimal under the reward structure
Technical Skills
Core Languages
Python · TypeScript · SQL
Backend
Django · Django REST Framework · FastAPI · SQLModel · Deno Edge Functions
Infrastructure
Docker · Docker Compose · Ubuntu Server · Cloudflare Tunnel · Cloudflare Access · Tailscale · Nginx · GitHub Actions
Data
PostgreSQL · Redis · pgvector · Qdrant
AI & ML
RAG pipelines (pgvector, Qdrant) · LLM inference (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini) · Streaming chat · PyTorch · DINOv2 · Stable-Baselines3 · MediaPipe
Observability
GitHub Actions CI · 80% test coverage · Automated PostgreSQL backups
Frontend
React · Next.js · Tailwind CSS