Metin Ünlü

Where I have worked

• Jan 2026 — Present

  Chief Technology Officer

  Téchnéos — AI Solutions & Technology Consultancy · Trento, Italy (remote)
  • Own technical vision and system architecture across the company's AI portfolio, while remaining a primary contributor on every delivered codebase (typically 50–60% of commits per project).
  • Designed and led delivery of a reusable enterprise AI platform providing identity, fine-grained authorization, AI gateway, governed tool execution, workflow orchestration and audit — so each engagement writes domain logic instead of rebuilding plumbing.
  • Direct a cross-functional team of AI engineers and data scientists building containerized, on-premise and cloud-native systems for regulated enterprise clients.
  • Established architectural standards and CI-enforced invariants (no secret defaults, no prompt text in telemetry, allowlisted audit payloads), containerization workflows and secure access protocols.
• Aug 2024 — Jan 2026

  Full Stack & AI Engineer

  Téchnéos · Trento, Italy (remote)
  • Architected and delivered end-to-end AI applications for clients in manufacturing, logistics, supply chain and enterprise document processing.
  • Owned the full lifecycle: data ingestion, ML and LLM pipelines, FastAPI and NestJS backends, React and Next.js frontends, Docker-based deployment.
  • Built retrieval pipelines with vector embeddings and rerankers, plus local open-weight model serving (Ollama, vLLM), so confidential client data never leaves the customer network.
• Jul 2024 — Aug 2024

  Data Scientist

  Téchnéos · Trento, Italy (remote)
  • Developed machine learning models, statistical analytics pipelines and proof-of-concept AI automations.
  • Implemented the core analytical modules for demand forecasting and predictive modelling.
• Feb 2023 — Sep 2023

  Digital Transformation Analyst

  SASA Polyester Sanayi A.Ş. · Adana, Turkey
  • Led digital transformation initiatives across a 1,000 tn/day polymer production plant, bridging operational technology with modern data practices.
  • Managed external software engineering teams delivering enterprise data management systems aligned with corporate strategy.
  • Designed real-time KPI dashboards and automated recurring analytical reporting, reducing reporting bottlenecks and improving process visibility.
• Jun 2022 — Feb 2023

  Production / Plant Engineer

  SASA Polyester Sanayi A.Ş. · Adana, Turkey
  • Implemented Manufacturing Excellence frameworks including 5S, root cause analysis and continuous improvement.
  • Co-developed predictive and preventive maintenance strategies to minimize downtime in a high-throughput plant.
  • Maintained technical records, managed maintenance workflows and produced daily, weekly and monthly performance reporting.
• Sep 2020 — Aug 2021

  Project Engineer

  Barış Teknolojik Tesisat Sistemleri · Adana, Turkey
  • Designed industrial heat exchanger equipment and piping systems to customer specification and engineering standards.
  • Engineered 2D and 3D plant layouts, P&IDs and equipment specifications.
  • Automated material selection, dynamic pricing and structural weight calculations with custom Excel VBA applications.
• Feb 2020 — Jul 2021

  Autonomous Systems Engineer & Mechanical Team Leader

  Atılay UUV — Teknofest Autonomous Systems · Turkey
  • Led the mechanical team for an unmanned underwater vehicle, reaching Finalist standing at the Teknofest Autonomous Systems competition.
  • Built robot simulation environments in Gazebo and implemented autonomous control, navigation and obstacle avoidance with ROS.
  • Designed a lightweight, modular chassis optimized for rapid manufacturing and underwater hydrodynamic stability.

Where I studied

• Sep 2023 — Jul 2025

  MSc Data Science

  University of Verona · Verona, Italy
  • Graduated 110 e lode (high honors), GPA 4.0 / 4.0, with scholarship.
• Sep 2020 — Jul 2022

  MEng Mechatronics, Robotics & Automation

  Çukurova University · Adana, Turkey
  • GPA 4.0 / 4.0 (High Honor). Thesis: conceptual design of an ankle rehabilitation robot for cerebral palsy patients.
• Aug 2019 — Mar 2020

  BEng Mechanical Engineering & Management (Erasmus)

  Poznan University of Technology · Poznań, Poland
  • GPA 3.78 / 4.0.
• 2016 — 2020

  BSc Mechanical Engineering

  Çukurova University · Adana, Turkey
  • GPA 3.40 / 4.0 (Honor Degree).

Peer-reviewed research

• 2025 Bridging Experimental Research and Process Design via Machine Learning: AI-Enhanced Simulation of Azeotropic Distillation Processes in a Polyamide Recycle Process Pirola C., Ferlin A., Lombardo L., Maesani C., Alini S., Burgio G., Mezzetti N., Maines E., Unlu M., Tondelli G. · Chemical Engineering Transactions 122, 535–540 · DOI 10.3303/CET25122090 Kolmogorov-Arnold and sequential neural networks trained on pilot-column and simulation data to build a digital twin of an azeotropic distillation unit.
• 2025 Experimental Study and Modelling through Artificial Intelligence of the Separation by Azeotropic Distillation of Solvents Used in Industrial Recycling Processes Pirola C., Ferlin A., Maesani C., Alini S., Mezzetti N., Unlu M., Tonsi G. · Chemical Engineering Transactions 119, 235–240 · DOI 10.3303/CET25119040 Bayesian optimization over Gaussian process models with ensemble random-forest regression and uncertainty quantification, guiding experiment selection on a 15-tray continuous distillation column.
• Thesis Conceptual Design of Ankle Rehabilitation Robot for Cerebral Palsy Patients Master's thesis research · ORCID 0000-0002-9539-2670