About

About

Hello, I am Emirhan YILDIRIM.

Applied ML Engineer focused on Computer Vision, LLM Systems, and Production MLOps.

Professional Experience Highlights

Software Engineer Intern - Esbi Bilişim ve Telekomünikasyon (Jul 2026 - Present)

  • Collaborating on backend architecture, focusing on the design and optimization of enterprise APIs.
  • Engineering robust data processing logic and database schemas to handle transaction workflows.
  • Implementing structured system logging and fault-tolerant mechanisms for stable service operations.

Information Systems Engineering graduate (Sakarya University, Aug 2026) with hands-on experience in moving ML systems from notebook prototypes to production-ready services.

I have built end-to-end AI and data systems with measurable outcomes, including:

  • 98.53% in-distribution accuracy and 89.05% OOD performance (+32.09 pp, retraining-free) on an AI pathology system
  • 1st place on a private Kaggle leaderboard (0.94169 accuracy) in an Industry 5.0 kinematic action recognition competition
  • 90%+ manual workload reduction through backend and data pipeline automation
  • 700+ processed transactions with 95%+ success rate in production workflows

Focus Areas

  • Production ML systems and model serving
  • LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) & Vector Databases
  • Backend API design, validation, and telemetry
  • ETL and data engineering for scalable pipelines

Tech Stack

  • Programming: Python, SQL
  • AI / ML: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, Scikit-Learn, OpenCV, XGBoost, LightGBM
  • LLM & RAG: ChromaDB, Sentence Transformers, LLM APIs (Groq, Ollama), RAG Pipelines
  • MLOps & Systems: Docker, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, CUDA, Git, Model Observability
  • Backend & Data: FastAPI, Flask, Dask, Pandas, REST APIs, NumPy

Languages

  • Turkish: Native
  • English: Professional

Certificates

  • CS50x: Introduction to Computer Science - Harvard University
  • Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification - DeepLearning.AI

Location

  • Turkiye (Remote)

Contact

Open to remote roles and collaborations in Applied ML, backend, and AI product development.