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Umur Burhan Yavuz

Umur

Yavuz

iOS engineer by dayAI platform lead by night
Senior Engineer & AI Platform Lead$ uptime --career · live since Apr 2017
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01 / WHOAMI

I ship polished iOS apps and build the quiet machinery underneath them — a one-person, self-hosted AI platform with local LLMs, DNS, automation and nineteen containers on a single Mac Mini M4. Zero cloud bills.

Started in AI/ML in Istanbul · senior iOS in the EU · now back to AI platform & infra · BSc CompEng, Koç University
02 / GIT LOGCareer commits
01
2017 → 2022 · Istanbul · the origin story
Faladdin logo

Arteria / Faladdin

iOS + AI specialist. GPT-2 text generation, StyleGAN imagery, deep-learning classification — shipped as Faladdin, an AI fortune teller, on AWS.

GPT-2 / StyleGAN / AWS
02
May 2022 → Jul 2023 · Utrecht
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GO Sharing

iOS developer. E-mobility app driven by real-time vehicle data, comprehensively feature-flagged for safe rollouts.

Combine / Real-time / Firebase
03
May → Nov 2023 · London · remote
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Desté

Senior iOS developer. Led development — SceneKit 3D product rendering, in-app subscriptions — through to App Store release.

SceneKit / RevenueCat / Xcode Cloud
04
Nov 2023 → HEAD · Amsterdam
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Temper

Senior iOS engineer. Own acquisition & reactivation surfaces — onboarding, signup, profile. Refactored legacy UIKit / MVVM-C into SwiftUI + TCA.

SwiftUI / TCA / GraphQL / Fastlane
03 / DOCKER PSThe night shift runs itself
● dns-core
AdGuard · Unbound · DNSSEC — recursive resolver + ad-blocking
● edge-access
Caddy · Tailscale · Cloudflare — proxy for .home + remote access
● llm-runtime
Ollama · Gemma · Telegram bot — local LLMs + RAG memory
Mac Mini M4Mac Mini M4host · ~19 containers
● automation
cron · Claude API · webhooks — jobs, notifications, auto-deploy
● home-assistant
Home Assistant · ADB — smart-home automations, dashboards
● media-docs
Jellyfin · *arr · Paperless-ngx — media, documents, dashboards
all systems nominal · no cloud bills · just a static IP and a lot of YAML
04 / SHIP LOGBuilt, shipped, running
▲ SHIPPED · 2017–2022

Faladdin

An AI fortune teller built years before the LLM wave. GPT-2 wrote the readings, StyleGAN dreamed the imagery — shipped to iOS on AWS-served models.

GPT-2 / StyleGAN / AWS
● LIVE · toolpile.org ↗

Toolpile

A suite of fast, no-nonsense web tools. Next.js on Cloudflare with ISR and a self-authored auto-deploy pipeline.

Next.js / Cloudflare / Supabase
● LIVE · HOME LAB

RAG Telegram bot

A Telegram assistant with retrieval-augmented memory — sqlite-vec + FTS5 + embeddings — running entirely on local Ollama models.

Ollama / RAG / Python
05 / CAT SKILLS.TXTThe toolbox
ios / apple
SwiftSwiftUIUIKitTCACombineSwift ConcurrencySPMXCTestFastlaneRevenueCatSceneKit
ai / ml
LLMsOllamaRAGGPT / GPT-2GANs (StyleGAN)Deep learningPrompt engineeringClaude API
backend / infra
PythonAWSDockerCaddyAdGuard / Unbound DNSTailscaleLinuxCI/CDGraphQL
tooling
GitTerminalCloudflareHome Assistant

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Open to opportunities in iOS and AI platform engineering.

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