I build AI-driven systems, scalable backends, and optimized data pipelines, bridging backend engineering, AI, and automation to turn raw data into actionable insights. 🔹 Backend & Data – APIs, data pipelines, and scalable infrastructure (Python & Next.js).

2024 — NowmidpageFounding Engineer

2024 — Now

New York City Metropolitan Area

Developed the world’s 3rd AI-powered Legal Citator.

Created the Natural Language Search in legal space (called Proposition Search)

Built the data pipeline for US Courts, integrating AI for automation.

Python FastAPI & Next.js seamless integration.

Leading backend & data team

Ensuring scalability and reliability.

Created offline AI tasks for document type detection, metadata extraction, and data quality improvements using various LLMs (Gemini, GPT, etc).

Worked on Next.js frontend, including AI-annotations, and UI design and enhancements.

and anything and everything a founding engineer does.

2023 — NowUnknownFreelance Software Developer & Founder

2023 — Now

* Created an AI Infrastructure service where we help businesses deploy their AI models on high performance, fault-tolerant and efficient infrastructure.

* (pinify.co) Created Pinify as ”Pinterest of Shopping” to let people pin any product from any store

* Created a webapp of Scenario Simulator for Drones (name undisclosed due to NDA), in Next.js

* Developed a self-help iOS app for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Psychology

* Developed auction bidding bot with Python and Selenium

* (calculatebuddy.com) Created CalculateBuddy for real-life calculators in all areas of life, getting 75.000 organic traffic and growing

* (dolarlamaas.com) Created DolarlaMaas where people in Turkey can find companies pays in dollars, due to inflation in Turkish Lira

2023 — 2023GoogleSoftware Engineer

2023 — 2023

London, England, United Kingdom

* I accepted their offer. Just before I start, Google rescinded the offer due to layoffs.

* For details --> https://twitter.com/yfenes/status/1690105208120983553

2020 — 2023CelonisSoftware Engineer

2020 — 2023

* Created Rossum Connector from scratch which is the first Celonis OCR solution

* Created a Python library which led to 500K+ monthly extractions

* Created a Datadog Dashboard to see Uptime of Kubernetes replicas with a Slack integration

* Developed the Python Connector to enable customers to create their own extractors

* Maintained the extraction of data from 50+ data source systems such as Salesforce, Zendesk, JDBC etc.

* Volunteered to improve the internal & external documentation

2020 — 2020Digital Product School by UnternehmerTUMSoftware Engineer

2020 — 2020

* 3-month program on remote development & management of 1-on-1 Event Scheduler app

* Led team of 7 to conduct iterative prototyping in Agile

* Built a 4-segment software architecture from scratch

* Acquisition of unique idea rights by SAP Business

* Applied best practices: code reviews, source control, CI/CD, etc.

* Worked in backend (Python & Node.js), frontend (React & Redux), database (Google Firebase Cloud NoSQL) and hosting (Google Firebase Cloud Hosting) and the management of the product from scratch

Education

2019 — 2021

Technical University of Munich

Master of Science - MS

2019 — 2021

2018 — 2021

Boğaziçi University

Master's degree