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.

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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 2025Present

  • 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

Ask me anything