Kaan Tiftikçi
Expert AI Engineer @ SAAT Teknoloji
AI engineer building with LLMs, NLP and statistics: semantic search, recommendation systems, vector databases and LLM-powered classification pipelines. Exploring the world created by data to drive intelligent decisions.
Writing about AI engineering, data and whatever I'm building
01Experience
Expert AI Engineer
Öykü Lojistik · Istanbul
AI Software R&D Engineer
SAAT Teknoloji
Content Editor
Webtekno.com
02Selected work
GitHub →03Freelance
04Writing & research
Read →05Stack
- AI & NLP
- PythonPyTorchLLMs / NLPQwen3Vector DBsPrompt Engineering
- Search & Rec
- Recommendation SystemsInformation RetrievalEmbeddingsSearch AlgorithmsCollaborative Filtering
- Data & Stats
- Machine Learningscikit-learnStatisticsRSPSSData VisualizationModel Optimization
- Engineering
- API DevelopmentPostgreSQLSQLDocker / DevOpsServer ManagementGit
06Education
Statistics (BSc)
Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University
Management Information Systems
Anadolu University
Statistics and Computer Science
Sivas Cumhuriyet University · Sivas
07Training & bootcamps
Google AI & Tech Academy
Data Science Student
UPOD Digital Future Bootcamp
Data Scientist Bootcamp
08Off the clock
Currently reading
Digital Fortress
Dan Brown
A government decryption machine meets a code it can't break — a thriller on surveillance, privacy and the ethical limits of technology.
Also reading: Life 3.0 · Max Tegmark
09Contact
Have an idea worth building?
Based in Serdivan, Sakarya & Istanbul. Open to AI projects, freelance builds and long conversations about LLMs, search and data.
kaantiftikci@outlook.com