Mert Kaya
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About

I design, train and publish AI models, then build the software needed to use them. My work includes models that choose among fixed answers and state their confidence, small models for AI assistants, and systems that detect AI-altered faces and show what affected each result.

I founded Eschatia Labs and work as an AI Engineer at Enocta. Before that I built financial software at KKB, backend and data systems at Alictus, and deep learning for smart farming at AgriDL5.0.

For my MSc at TED University, advised by Venera Adanova, I studied how varied and partly blacked-out training images affect a detector that examines video one frame at a time.

Experience and educationContact

Experience

  1. to present

    Enocta

    AI Engineer

    Deep learning, language models and AI engineering.

  2. to

    Credit Bureau of Turkey (KKB)

    Full-stack Engineer

    Financial software used across the Turkish banking sector.

  3. to

    AgriDL5.0

    AI and Full-stack Engineer (contract)

    Deep learning for smart farming, a mobile app and work with government partners.

  4. to

    Alictus

    Backend and Data Engineer

    Moved internal tools to the cloud using Go and Azure.

Internships and part-time roles: TED University (2023), SimBT (2019, 2021), Roar Games Studio (2021), BiSoft (2020).

Featured projects

  • reevesagents

    Runs AI coding tools side by side from one local terminal workspace.

    109GitHub7,379npm

  • xdfdet

    Detects AI-altered face videos and explains predictions with facial-region heatmaps.

    9GitHub784HF

Full open source list

Contributions

A short list of contributions to external projects.

  • musistudio avatar
    musistudio/claude-code-router 37,736
    PR
  • sgl-project avatar
    sgl-project/sglang 37,278
    PR
  • jarrodwatts avatar
    jarrodwatts/claude-hud 28,622
    PR
Full open source list

Education

  1. 2023 to 2025

    TED University

    MSc in Computer Science

    Full merit scholarship. Thesis on detecting AI-altered face videos and explaining model predictions, advised by Venera Adanova.

  2. 2022 to 2023

    IU International University of Applied Sciences

    MSc in Computer Science and AI (one year, then transferred)

    Full scholarship, remote.

  3. 2016 to 2021

    TOBB University of Economics and Technology (TOBB ETU)

    BSc in Computer Engineering

Skills

AI and research

models that analyse images, adapting language models, checking whether confidence scores are reliable, heat maps that explain image predictions

Software engineering

Python, Go, web and mobile development

AI assistants on your own computer

communication between AI tools, running models locally

Languages

Turkish (native), English (C2, IELTS), German (B1, TELC)

Contact

Email me about research or engineering work.

[email protected]