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Senior Engineer & AI Platform Lead
I ship iOS apps by day and run a one-person AI platform at home.
● home-lab.service — active (running) on Mac Mini M4
  dns · edge · llm-runtime · automation · home-assistant
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Umur Burhan Yavuz

Senior Engineer & AI Platform Lead

iOS
LLM Infrastructure
AI Governance
Automation

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I ship iOS apps by day and run a one-person, self-hosted AI platform — all on a single Mac Mini M4.

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$ cat about.md

Senior software engineer working across iOS and AI. I hold a BSc in Computer Engineering from Koç University, Istanbul.

I started in AI/ML — deep learning, GANs, and language models — in Istanbul, then became a senior iOS engineer in the EU. Today I'm moving back toward AI platform and infrastructure work: LLM infrastructure, AI governance, and automation.

Equal parts product engineer and systems tinkerer. I like shipping polished apps and building the quiet machinery that runs underneath them.

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From a first commit in Istanbul to shipping iOS and AI platforms across Europe.

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9yrs

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Total time building software — counting live since April 2017.

Senior iOS Engineer

TemperNov 2023 — Present

Amsterdam · Hybrid

Own user acquisition & reactivation surfaces — onboarding, signup, and profile. Refactored legacy UIKit / MVVM-C flows into modern SwiftUI + The Composable Architecture.

SwiftUI
Swift Concurrency
TCA + MVVM
GraphQL / Apollo
REST
SPM modularization
XCTest
Fastlane CI/CD
Firebase Remote Config

Senior iOS Developer

DestéMay 2023 — Nov 2023

London · Remote · Contract

Led iOS development, including 3D product rendering with SceneKit and in-app subscriptions, through to App Store release.

Swift
SwiftUI
UIKit
SceneKit (3D)
Combine + PromiseKit
Firebase
RevenueCat (IAP)
Xcode Cloud CI/CD

iOS Developer

GO SharingMay 2022 — Jul 2023

Utrecht

Built features for an e-mobility customer app driven by real-time vehicle data, with comprehensive feature-flagging for safe rollouts.

SwiftUI
Combine pipelines
PromiseKit
Real-time data
Firebase
Feature flags

iOS Developer / AI Specialist

Arteria Ventures / Faladdin2017 — 2022

Istanbul · the AI origin story

Where it began. Deep-learning image classification; text generation with GPT & GPT-2; image generation with GANs (Nvidia StyleGAN / StyleGAN2). Built Faladdin, an AI fortune-telling chatbot, and deployed ML on AWS. Earlier internships at Vestel (Android) and Labdroids (databases).

Deep learning
GPT / GPT-2
GANs · StyleGAN
Image classification
AWS
iOS

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A one-person, self-hosted AI platform. No cloud bills — just a Mac Mini, a static IP, and a lot of YAML.

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~0containers running

0cloud bills

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runningdns-coreAdGuard · Unbound · DNSSECRecursive resolver + network-wide ad-blocking

runningedge-accessCaddy · Tailscale · CloudflareReverse proxy for .home domains + secure remote access

runningllm-runtimeOllama · Gemma · Telegram botLocal LLMs + a custom bot with RAG memory (sqlite-vec + FTS5)

runningautomationcron · Claude API · webhooksScheduled jobs, Telegram notifications, auto-deploy on push

runninghome-assistantHome Assistant · ADBSmart-home automations, dashboards, TV control

runningmedia-docsJellyfin · *arr · Paperless-ngxMedia library, document archive, Uptime Kuma + Homepage dashboard

All systems nominal · stack documented as live infrastructure, not screenshots

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// ship-log

Temper

Amsterdam · current

User acquisition and reactivation surfaces — onboarding, signup and profile — for a large flexible-work marketplace. SwiftUI with The Composable Architecture over a GraphQL backend.

SwiftUI
TCA
GraphQL
Firebase

GO Sharing

Utrecht · 2022–23

iOS customer app for shared e-mobility — scooters and bikes — with live vehicle data on the map, ride flows and feature-flagged rollouts. SwiftUI + Combine.

SwiftUI
Combine
Real-time
Firebase

Desté

Contract · 2023

Led iOS development: 3D product rendering with SceneKit, in-app subscriptions via RevenueCat, and the App Store release.

SwiftUI
SceneKit
RevenueCat
Xcode Cloud

Faladdin

Istanbul years

AI fortune-telling chatbot — text generation with GPT-2 and imagery via GANs (StyleGAN), served to a large mobile audience.

GPT-2
GANs
iOS
AWS

// side projects & platform

toolpile.org

live · solo

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

Next.js
Cloudflare
Supabase

RAG Telegram bot

home lab

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

Ollama
RAG
sqlite-vec
Python

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$ printenv SKILLS

SwiftSwiftUIUIKitTCACombineSwift ConcurrencySPMXCTestFastlaneRevenueCatSceneKitLLMsOllamaRAGGPT / GPT-2GANs (StyleGAN)Deep learningPrompt engineeringClaude APIPythonAWSDockerCaddyAdGuard / Unbound DNSTailscaleLinuxCI/CDGraphQLGitTerminalCloudflareHome Assistant

iOS / Apple

Swift
SwiftUI
UIKit
TCA
Combine
Swift Concurrency
SPM
XCTest
Fastlane
RevenueCat
SceneKit

AI / ML

LLMs
Ollama
RAG
GPT / GPT-2
GANs (StyleGAN)
Deep learning
Prompt engineering
Claude API

Backend / Infra

Python
AWS
Docker
Caddy
AdGuard / Unbound DNS
Tailscale
Linux
CI/CD
GraphQL

Tooling

Git
Terminal
Cloudflare
Home Assistant

$ cat education.txt

BSc, Computer Engineering — Koç University, Istanbul · 2014 — 2020