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Experience

1. Independent Software & AI Studio Istanbul, Türkiye
   Co-founder & Engineer · Freelance Mar 2026 — Present

   • Built and run a two-person studio shipping custom software and AI systems to paying clients.
   • Own engagements end-to-end: requirements, design, development, deployment, and ongoing support.
   • Co-creator of camellayer.com (CLL), an in-house product built alongside client work.
2. GIS Analytics London, UK (Remote)
   Software Engineer · Contract Mar 2026 — Present

   • Built web-based interfaces with interactive 3D rendering for geospatial data visualization.
   • Developed full-stack features across the GIS web product, from data layer to client.
3. okeep.co (yaptir.io) Istanbul, Türkiye
   Automation Engineer · Contract Mar 2026 — May 2026

   • Designed and shipped automation workflows for AI-driven client operations.
   • Maintained AI tooling integrations with downstream business systems to cut recurring manual overhead.

   Software Engineer · Contract Jan 2026 — Mar 2026

   • Delivered end-to-end software and automation projects, from scoping to deployment.
   • Led a small engineering team, handled client-facing discussions and parallel engagements.
4. B4AFC — Business for Aging Friendly Community Istanbul, Türkiye
   IT Specialist · Part-time Jan 2026 — Mar 2026

   • Designed, built, and maintained the organization's website; streamlined operations via digital solutions.
5. Pinsoft — IT Solutions and Consulting Istanbul, Türkiye
   Research & Development Intern · Internship Aug 2025 — Dec 2025

   • Designed a fully functional ML model and pipeline for image processing projects.
   • Integrated hardware and software (ESP, AD, ADS modules) for global airway companies.

   Software Intern · Summer Internship Jun 2025 — Aug 2025

   • Built initial prototypes for image processing pipelines later expanded during R&D promotion.
6. Self-employed Istanbul, Türkiye
   Game Developer Aug 2024 — Dec 2024

   • Developed an isometric Pokémon-like game and a 2D office-themed game in Unity / C#.
   • Designed gameplay elements and handled artistic direction end-to-end.
7. NOVENTIQ Makronet Bilgi Teknolojileri Istanbul, Türkiye
   Software Intern · Summer Internship Jul 2024 — Aug 2024

   • Contributed to internal .NET and web tools; supported the data analytics team on reporting workflows.

Selected Work

• CamelLayer camellayer.com ↗

  AI coding in your native language — translates, compresses, and optimizes prompts to cut ~40% token usage. Co-created in-house product.

  Product NLP CLI
• NEST github.com/wazder/NEST ↗

  Neural EEG Sequence Transducer — decoding brain signals into open-vocabulary text via Transformer encoders and BART cross-attention decoding.

  PyTorch BCI Transformers
• Cognitive Drone github.com/wazder/cognitive-drone ↗

  Benchmarking VLM reasoning for autonomous drone gate selection — multi-model evaluation on CognitiveDroneBench with CLIP-free matching.

  VLM Computer Vision Benchmark
• Cross-Lingual VLA github.com/wazder ↗

  IEEE SIU 2026 paper — evaluating Turkish command understanding in OpenVLA across vision-language-action models.

  Research VLA Multilingual

Publications & Certifications

Contact

Open to AI/ML, full-stack, and product engagements. Easiest to reach by email.