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experience

nov 2024 – present

software engineeraselsan

  • developed and maintained software solutions addressing communication systems, chat applications, and video streaming/processing in mission-critical systems.
  • utilized java, c++, and react within the sst department, focusing on performance and scalability.
  • invited speaker at bakırçay university ieee “yazılım zirvesi 3,” presenting on “data warehouses and the etl process: transforming data into information.”

apr 2024 – jul 2024

candidate software engineermeteksan defence

  • contributed to government radar software projects within the radar software design department utilizing java, maven, spring boot, java threads, swing, and observables for scalable system development.

feb 2024 – mar 2024

software engineering internibtech (qnb finansbank)

  • designed and implemented dwh solutions using odi, sql, dbeaver, and python in an agile team.
  • built a python tool to remove obsolete sql columns/tables, presented to executive management.

jul 2023 – sep 2023

software engineering internintertech

  • developed an android application for online customer onboarding in an agile scrum environment.
  • built ic detection and data extraction system using yolov8 and image processing techniques.
  • deployed flask services on azure web app, storing data in azure mysql databases.

jul 2022 – sep 2022

software engineering interngaranti bbva technology

  • contributed to dwh team (prisma) in a scrum agile setting, developing solutions for reporting and analytics.
  • participated in a transformation project to improve performance by redesigning legacy data tables.
  • gained experience with sql, odi, big data tools, and enterprise dwh infrastructure.

education

expected graduation: jun 2027

m.sc. computer engineeringmiddle east technical university (metu)

cgpa 3.50

  • relevant coursework: machine learning, data mining, big data analytics, information retrieval, design and analysis of algorithms.

oct 2020 – jun 2024

b.sc. computer engineeringhacettepe university

graduated with high honors · cgpa 3.58

  • relevant coursework: machine learning, artificial intelligence, computer vision, image processing, computer security, software engineering, networks, blockchain, statistics.
  • design project: “using ml models for medical applications with data augmentation and artificially generated data.”

publication

contrastive representation learning for stock trading classification: a ts2vec approach with technical indicators

ö. demirhat, k. karabacak, e. gümüşkaya, p. karagöz

2026 34th signal processing and communications applications conference (siu), ieee, jul 2026.

doi: 10.1109/siu71813.2026.11636684

skills

technical
  • java (threads, swing, spring boot, maven)
  • python (yolo, image processing, gan, flask)
  • c++
  • react
  • android
  • sql
  • oracle data integrator (odi)
  • data warehouses
  • algorithms & data structures
  • git
  • svn
  • docker
  • kubernetes
  • microsoft azure
languages
  • turkish (native)
  • english (c1)
interests
  • data warehousing and management
  • machine learning
  • image processing
  • computer vision
  • video streaming
  • computer security
  • cryptography and privacy
  • cost-efficient llms