Chief Technology Officer · Téchnéos (Italy) · Remote from Adana, Türkiye

Metin Ünlü

I build production AI systems, end to end.

Architecture, machine learning, backend, frontend and infrastructure — I ship across all of them. An MSc in Data Science (110 e lode, University of Verona) on top of a mechanical and robotics engineering background, which is why what I build is shaped by real industrial constraints: on-premise deployment, confidential data, auditable decisions.

$ focus — AI systems architecture
Profile
  • RoleCTO & hands-on engineer — typically 50–60% of commits on the projects I lead
  • FocusEnterprise AI platforms, agentic tooling, probabilistic forecasting, retrieval systems
  • StackTypeScript & Python — NestJS, Next.js, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Temporal, Docker
  • Based inAdana, Türkiye — working remotely for an Italian consultancy and its EU clients
Selected professional work

Six systems, in production

Delivered at Téchnéos, an AI solutions consultancy where I work as CTO and remain a primary contributor on every codebase. Client names and internal product names are omitted — what is described is the engineering.

Platform architecture

Enterprise AI Application Kernel

A reusable, self-hostable foundation for enterprise AI applications: identity, fine-grained authorization, AI gateway, governed tool execution, durable workflows, audit and observability — so each client project writes domain logic only.

  • NestJS
  • Next.js
  • Temporal
  • OpenFGA
  • Keycloak
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Applied ML · Process R&D

ML-Driven Design of Experiments

Digital-twin and design-of-experiments platform that lets process engineers plan experiments and predict outcomes instead of running trial-and-error batches. Includes a distillation soft sensor with calibrated prediction intervals.

  • Python
  • scikit-learn
  • FastAPI
  • Next.js
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Forecasting · Supply chain

Demand Forecasting & Inventory Decisions

Probabilistic demand forecasting with quantile regression, feeding automated safety-stock and restocking decisions under a target service level. Four model families compared per series, with forecast health monitoring.

  • PyTorch Forecasting
  • TFT
  • Chronos
  • React
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LLM agents · Manufacturing quality

On-Premise Quality Assistant

Indexes a manufacturer's PFMEA and 8D quality documents, then searches, chats, cross-references and drafts from them — running entirely inside the customer network with local models and hybrid retrieval.

  • Hybrid RAG
  • BGE-M3
  • Ollama
  • DuckDB
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Document AI

Document Intelligence Platform

Remote GPU-accelerated OCR plus schema-validated LLM extraction, turning dense technical documents into standardized JSON/CSV datasets — with a visual schema editor and a multi-run evaluation benchmark.

  • vLLM
  • Ollama
  • FastAPI
  • SSE
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Finance operations

AI Invoice Payment Approval

Supplier invoices in, ISO 20022 payment file out: OCR, LLM extraction, master-data validation, and a human supervision desk for everything uncertain. Crash-resumable workflows, full audit trail, no automatic money movement.

  • NestJS
  • Temporal
  • Prisma
  • ISO 20022
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On numbers: everything here is written without client names, product names or customer data. Figures are either measured and logged in the repository, or explicitly labelled as engineering estimates on each page.

Personal & academic

Research and side work

Projects from my MSc in Data Science and personal research. The code for these is public on GitHub.

Quantitative finance

Markov Chain Financial Prediction

State-based market modelling over 20 years of equity data: transition matrices built from EMA and RSI regimes, expected-value scoring and threshold-driven trading — benchmarked honestly against buy-and-hold, which won.

  • Markov chains
  • Technical analysis
  • Python
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Recommender systems

Music Recommendation at Scale

Collaborative filtering and content-based recommenders over 3.6M user interactions from the Million Song Dataset — matrix factorization, implicit feedback modelling and hybrid strategies.

  • Matrix factorization
  • Implicit feedback
  • Spark-scale data
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Computer vision

Mango Leaf Disease Classification

Transfer-learning comparison across CNN baselines, EfficientNetB0, MobileNetV2 and Xception, reaching 98.75% accuracy — including the batch-size and memory trade-offs that made Xception trainable.

  • Xception
  • Transfer learning
  • TensorFlow
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About

Engineer first, data scientist second

I like problems where the model is only half the work, and the other half is making it dependable, deployable and explainable.

Technical leadership

As CTO I own architecture and standards across the AI portfolio while staying hands-on — typically 50–60% of commits on the projects I lead, across backend, frontend and infrastructure.

Production AI, not demos

Agentic tool calling, retrieval pipelines, prompt versioning and evaluation harnesses — built with the audit trails and authorization boundaries that regulated clients actually require.

Industrial background

Plant engineer and digital transformation analyst at a 1,000 tn/day polymer producer before moving into AI. I have stood on the factory floor the dashboards describe.

Academic foundation

MSc in Data Science from the University of Verona, graduated 110 e lode with a scholarship, on top of an MEng in Mechatronics & Robotics with a 4.0 GPA.

Cross-cultural experience

Educated and employed across Türkiye, Poland and Italy. Now based in Adana and working remotely for an Italian consultancy, delivering systems for multi-site European clients — including trilingual (EN/IT/DE) production interfaces.

Published research

Co-author on two 2025 Chemical Engineering Transactions papers applying neural networks, Bayesian optimization and uncertainty quantification to azeotropic distillation in polymer recycling — plus a thesis on rehabilitation robotics.

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Get in touch

Let's talk about the hard half

Looking for someone who can take an AI system from architecture to a deployed, audited, on-premise product? I am open to conversations about senior AI engineering, technical leadership and consulting work. I work remotely from Türkiye and am used to distributed teams across European time zones.

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