BARIS KAPLAN

Telecommunications sector, AI Developer with hands-on experience in video analysis (PyQt5 GUI), object detection (YOLOv3/v5, DeepNet in Docker), and model conversion (ONNX, PyTorch, TensorFlow). Fine-tuned video captioning models on 50Salad datasets and augmented chatbot data using T5 LLM for Getir. Delivered Stable Diffusion demos and led YouTube live streams covering AI/ML and Huawei Cloud (ModelArts, ExeML, OBS). Certified HCCDA & HCCDP-AI with strong PoC development and shell scripting skills.

AI Engineer specialized in document parsing and NLP. Hands-on experience fine-tuning Donut Transformers on banking documents, OCR, document classification, NER, and dataset labeling/preprocessing. Researched OCR-free information retrieval, few-shot, continual, and k-shot n-way learning techniques for complex document understanding. Developed scalable backend services using FastAPI, PL/SQL, and MongoDB, while utilizing Jira for Agile/Scrum project management and Confluence for comprehensive documentation.

Big Data & MLOps Intern with hands-on experience building Java applications using Kafka (producer-consumer), Elasticsearch (CRUD JSON indexing), Maven, and Postman. Proficient in PySpark, Spark MLLib (Linear Regression, Naive Bayes), and SQL (Impala, Hive) for EDA. Skilled in scheduling Apache Airflow DAGs, MongoDB, Hadoop/HDFS, time-series anomaly detection, and Agile tools (Trello, Confluence). Co-led pair-programming sessions on core big data and MLOps tech.

Experienced in Java development and JUnit testing, I built applications using Spring Boot, Maven, XML, and core OOP and Separation of Concerns principles. Mentored by senior engineers in OOP, XML, and AWS, I conducted in-depth research on Java technologies and NLP fundamentals like normalization and tokenization. Applying this expertise, I contributed to an NLP/ML-powered chatbot project by developing the normalization module for Zemberek, the primary open-source Turkish NLP library.

Master of Science Degree in Data Science at the Hamburg University of Technology (TU Hamburg-Harburg, TUHH)

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering degree from the College of Engineering Faculty at Koç University