Experience
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Experience
Founding AI Engineer — globeholder.ai · Full-time, Remote (France)
Mar 2025 – Present
- Building agentic, cloud-based AI systems and transformer-based geo-foundation models.
- Leading development of Thinking Lab, an agentic AI platform turning proprietary geospatial signals into decision-forward research and analysis.
Geospatial Data Scientist — Doktar Technologies · Full-time, Hybrid (Istanbul)
Jun 2023 – Mar 2025
- Developed advanced deep learning algorithms for field boundary delineation, improving precision in land management.
- Ran crop type land use / land cover classification using ensemble ML models on large geospatial datasets.
- Built a production dashboard for crop classification results with Streamlit.
Machine Learning Engineer — FarmOn · Freelance, Remote (Netherlands)
Mar 2023 – Jun 2023
- Built a climate resemblance tool comparing current and projected future climate across locations.
- Trained a crop classification model with AutoGluon on Microsoft Planetary Computer using yearly NDVI.
Research Assistant — Koç University · UrbanOccupations OETR Project (Istanbul)
Nov 2021 – Apr 2023
- Created multiple segmentation datasets from historical aerial & satellite imagery (1950–1970).
- Applied PyTorch segmentation models for road extraction and LU/LC segmentation of historical maps — work published in two IEEE articles.
Core Team Member — Google Developer Student Clubs, ITU (Istanbul)
Jan 2021 – Dec 2021
- Delivered hands-on teaching sessions on Google Earth Engine for students.
Education
- M.Sc., Satellite Communication and Remote Sensing — Istanbul Technical University, Feb 2022 – Jan 2025
- B.Sc., Geomatics Engineering — Istanbul Technical University, Feb 2017 – Jan 2022
Skills
- Programming: Python, R, JavaScript
- AI / ML: PyTorch, Transformers, Hugging Face, Computer Vision, NLP, Deep Learning
- Cloud & Tools: AWS, Azure, Docker, SQL, Streamlit
- Geospatial: Google Earth Engine, ArcGIS, QGIS, Remote Sensing
Licenses & Certifications
- Python for Data Science, AI & Development — IBM, Apr 2021
- 59th Istanbul Applied Data Science Bootcamp — Kodluyoruz, Nov 2020