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Tuğberk Akbulut

AI/ML engineer and computer engineering student at GTU. Three years shipping production systems: multi-agent LLM pipelines, fine-tuned language models, and ML models running live in trading and crypto analytics platforms.

"Build agents that fail loudly, not silently."

Featured Work

8 projects
More on GitHub · 25 other repositories

Experience

Scholar / Researcher · TÜBİTAK 3501 Project · GTU Mathematics

Jul 2026 – Present

Kocaeli, Turkey

  • Researching smooth cubic surfaces and computational algebraic geometry, advised by Assoc. Prof. Fatma Karaoğlu Ceyhan, Department of Mathematics, GTU
  • Working with the Orbiter software system over finite fields (𝔽₉) on projective spaces, quartic/cubic geometry, and Hamming graphs

Researcher · Zonno Usta · GTU Computer Engineering

Jul 2026 – Present

Kocaeli, Turkey

  • Researching Zonno Usta, a Turkish automotive diagnostic AI agent, advised by Assoc. Prof. Mehmet Göktürk, Department of Computer Engineering, GTU
  • Building a ReAct-loop LangGraph architecture with hybrid BM25 + dense retrieval for diagnostic knowledge search

AI / Computer Vision Intern · Codexist Bilişim Teknolojisi

Jun 2026 – Aug 2026

Turkey

  • Working on VADIS, a TÜBİTAK 1505-funded multi-camera edge AI video analytics platform
  • Built real-time object detection and tracking with YOLOv11 + TensorRT and ByteTrack
  • Implemented semantic video search for anomaly and risk detection using CLIP/SigLIP-2 embeddings with pgvector

Software Developer · Racfathers

Mar 2025 – Dec 2025

Istanbul, Turkey (Remote)

  • Led architecture and delivery of a multi-agent AI platform for crypto market analysis and trading psychology, deployed across Telegram, WhatsApp, Farcaster, Discord, and a REST API
  • Owned the full ML lifecycle for Bitcoin price forecasting (LSTM) and rugpull detection (XGBoost), covering feature engineering, training, evaluation, and Dockerized deployment
  • Drove Base and Ethereum integrations with millisecond-level Uniswap V2 liquidity monitoring via Alchemy WebSocket streaming for real-time risk signals

Python Instructor · GDG on Campus GTU & QPREP / QTurkey

Oct 2024 – Present

Kocaeli, Turkey

  • Designed and delivered a 5-day Python bootcamp at GDG on Campus GTU for 150+ participants as lead instructor across 2 academic years, covering data structures, OOP, and projects
  • Taught the opening Python session of the QPREP Quantum Computing Workshop with QTurkey at GTU, preparing students for Linear Algebra and Quantum Computing modules by Dr. Tülay Ayyıldız and Dr. Özlem Salehi Köken
  • Authored open-source notebooks on Python, NumPy, Matplotlib, and Qiskit, and published a recorded lecture on YouTube

Software Engineering Intern · NOWAITECH GmbH

Jul 2024 – Sep 2024

Berlin, Germany (On-site)

  • Developed a web-based network operations center management system in production at noc.nowaitech.com, covering real-time status tracking and operations workflow
  • Built an automated PDF processing pipeline integrating OCR and LLM-based data extraction for telecommunications documentation workflows

Software Developer · Fezari Tech

Sep 2023 – Sep 2024

Trabzon, Turkey (Remote)

  • Developed a PySide6/Qt6 ground control station with custom widgets, real-time camera streaming, interactive map visualization, and joystick control over FastDDS middleware

Software Developer · Alka Digital Media Agency

Feb 2023 – Aug 2024

Trabzon, Turkey (Remote)

  • Built a multi-tenant QR menu platform with Next.js and MongoDB, featuring a dynamic module system, domain-based routing, and NextAuth authentication for multiple hospitality partners

Full-Stack Developer · Moren News Agency

Apr 2021 – Sep 2024

Trabzon, Turkey (Hybrid)

  • Built and maintained a Django-powered news portal with class-based views, auto-generated sitemaps, and a moderated content optimization pipeline

Education

Gebze Technical University

B.Sc. Computer Engineering

GPA 3.64 / 4.00 · Expected 2028

  • Trabzon Akçaabat Science High School

    2019–2023

    High School Diploma, Science Track

  • Deneyap Trabzon Technology Workshop

    2019–2022

    Embedded systems, IoT, and robotics projects

  • Trabzon Naci Orhan Computer Science & Design Skills Center

    2018–2021

    Technical training in software and robotics: WRO, FLL, and TEKNOFEST competitions

Awards & Certifications

  • TÜBİTAK 52nd High School Research Projects Competition · Software

    3rd Place, Turkey National · 1st Place, Erzurum Region · 2022

  • TEKNOFEST Unmanned Underwater Systems · Temel Category

    4th Place, Turkey · TEKNOFEST Gaziantep 2020 & TEKNOFEST Istanbul 2021 · 2020–2021

  • PCAP: Programming Essentials in Python

    Cisco Networking Academy / OpenEDG Python Institute

  • FIRST LEGO League · INTO ORBIT Season 15

    Istanbul Regional Tournament participant · 2019

  • 81 Cities 81 Cyber Hero Project

    Ministry of National Education / SiberKamp · cybersecurity training program