# 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](https://eschatialabs.com) 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 education](https://mertkayacs.com/about/#experience) [Contact](mailto:mertkayacs@gmail.com)

- [GitHub](https://github.com/mertkayacs)

- [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/mertkayacs)

- [Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/mertilovski)

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mertkayacs)

- [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0006-7018-3027)

- [X](https://x.com/mertkayaai)

## Experience

- July 2025 to present

### Enocta

AI Engineer

Deep learning, language models and AI engineering.

- March 2023 to August 2024

### Credit Bureau of Turkey (KKB)

Full-stack Engineer

Financial software used across the Turkish banking sector.

- September 2022 to January 2023

### AgriDL5.0

AI and Full-stack Engineer (contract)

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

- December 2021 to September 2022

### 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

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### [reevesagents](https://reevesagents.mertkayacs.com)

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

  109 GitHub 7,379 npm

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### [xdfdet](https://xdfdet.mertkayacs.com)

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

  9 GitHub 784 HF

 [Full open source list](https://mertkayacs.com/open-source/)

## Contributions

A short list of contributions to external projects.

- musistudio/claude-code-router 37,736

 [PR](https://github.com/musistudio/claude-code-router/pull/1871)

- sgl-project/sglang 37,278

 [PR](https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang/pull/43377)

- jarrodwatts/claude-hud 28,622

 [PR](https://github.com/jarrodwatts/claude-hud/pull/802)

 [Full open source list](https://mertkayacs.com/open-source/)

## Education

- 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.

- 2022 to 2023

### IU International University of Applied Sciences

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

Full scholarship, remote.

- 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.

[mertkayacs@gmail.com](mailto:mertkayacs@gmail.com)

Canonical: https://mertkayacs.com/about/