Featured2026/Team captain · Turkcell
Akıllı Şehir Sağlık Haritası
A smart-city health intelligence platform built and recognized at the finalist stage.
- Python
- AI/ML
- Data
- Web
- Stage
- Finalist
- Role
- Captain
- Focus
- Urban systems
Data Science & AI Engineer·Kyrenia
Ahmet Özgün Arkıner
Software & Computer Engineering · Eastern Mediterranean University
Demos prove what's possible. Systems prove what holds. I build the second: retrieval, evaluation, deployment that ships.
01/Profile
Building software systems,
growing into applied AI.
Games came first, then the question of how the software behind them actually worked. These days I build software, and more and more, the AI inside it.
At 14 I joined a cybersecurity bootcamp, my first time learning from people who do this for a living. I finished high school at Near East College on the A Level track (Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, and ICT), and I'm now a Senior at Eastern Mediterranean University, studying Software Engineering and Computer Engineering as a double major.
Competitions pushed my AI work forward. At AI Future Minds'25 I captained the team behind a RAG-based kiosk assistant, and at Turkcell Yarının Teknoloji Liderleri 2026 I led my team to the finalist stage with “Akıllı Şehir Sağlık Haritası”.
Since December 2025 I've been on the executive team of ÜNİDER, a student association in Northern Cyprus. This summer I interned in the AI department at Kuzey Kıbrıs Turkcell, and in August I helped organize the first Kıbrıs Türk Üniversite Öğrencileri Kongresi, working on participant coordination and in the Future Concerns and Career Committee. I also designed and built the congress website.
Snapshots/Competitions, internship, teams, shipped work
Turkcell internship '26 Turkcell '26 
LuxeStay 
Student Congress '26 
Turkcell internship '26 Turkcell '26 
LuxeStay 
Student Congress '26 
AI Future Minds '25 
Turkcell internship '26 
Student Congress '26 
Turkcell '26 
LuxeStay 
Turkcell '26
02/Skills
What I build with.
The toolkit is concentrated on AI / ML right now, but grounded in solid engineering fundamentals.
AI / ML
- Machine Learning
- Neural Networks
- LLMs
- RAG
- Speech-to-Text
- Speaker Diarization
- Recommender Systems
- Explainable AI
Libraries & APIs
- Hugging Face
- faster-whisper
- pyannote.audio
- scikit-learn
- XGBoost
- SHAP
- pandas
- NumPy
- Matplotlib
- SQLAlchemy
Languages
- Python
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- C++
- SQL
Web
- React
- Next.js
- Node.js
- Flask
- FastAPI
- Tailwind CSS
- REST APIs
Databases & Infrastructure
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Prisma
- Docker
- Ollama
- Git & GitHub
Automation
- Python Scripting
- Data Pipelines
- Document Generation
Security
- Web Application Security
- Authentication & Access Control
- Network Fundamentals
Engineering
- System Design
- Software Architecture
- Technical Planning
- Project Management
03/Projects
Selected projects.
Browse the full project archive for every case study, screenshot set, and technical breakdown.
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022026/Organizer · Web platform
Kıbrıs Türk Üniversite Öğrencileri Kongresi
Helped organize the first congress of Cypriot Turkish university students, and designed and built its website.
032025/Team captain · Hackathon
Construction AI Kiosk
A RAG-powered assistant prototype for construction-domain questions.
- Python
- RAG
- Hugging Face
- LLMs
042026/Team captain · CMSE 322
LuxeStay
A full-stack hotel booking platform with a locally run AI assistant and a recommendation engine, built end to end with my team.
- Qwen 2.5 (Ollama)
- RAG
- KNN
- Next.js
- React
More code and experiments continue on github.com/ahmetozgunarkiner.
04/Journey
How I got here.
The path so far: formal, informal, and self-directed.
Jul – Sep 2026
Artificial Intelligence Intern
Kuzey Kıbrıs Turkcell
Spent the summer in the AI department, where two fellow interns and I took an internal AI system from its first working prototype to a full handover. In parallel, I was part of a five-person team that shaped a new smart home product and presented it to senior management, including the CEO.
- Applied AI
- Product
- Teamwork
Aug 2026
Organizer: Kıbrıs Türk Üniversite Öğrencileri Kongresi
Five partner student associations · Nicosia
Helped organize the first edition, working in participant coordination and in the Future Concerns and Career Committee. Also designed and built the congress website, where students could find the details and register.
- Organizing
- Community
- Product
2026
Finalist: Turkcell Yarının Teknoloji Liderleri 2026
Turkcell
Led my team to the finalist stage with "Akıllı Şehir Sağlık Haritası", strengthening leadership, teamwork, and problem-solving in a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment. Also had the chance to meet with senior leadership at Turkcell.
- Finalist
- Leadership
- AI
Dec 2025 – Present
Executive: Üniversite Öğrencileri Derneği
On the executive team of a student association for university students in Northern Cyprus.
- Leadership
- Community
- Student Affairs
2025
AI Future Minds'25 Hackathon: Construction AI
Cyprus Construction
Led the team as captain and developed a RAG-based kiosk assistant using Hugging Face models to process and interpret construction-related data.
- Team Captain
- RAG
- Python
2023 – Present
B.Sc. Double Major in Software Engineering & Computer Engineering
Eastern Mediterranean University · Famagusta
Currently a Senior. Built a strong engineering foundation across software systems, architecture, and databases, now actively bridging that practice with Artificial Intelligence through Python, Machine Learning, and Neural Networks.
- Software Engineering
- AI Systems
- Machine Learning
- Database Systems
2021 – 2023
A Level: Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, ICT
Near East College · Nicosia
High school education on the A Level curriculum with a strongly quantitative focus that became the analytical foundation everything since has been built on.
- Mathematics
- Statistics
- Physics
- ICT
2020
Cybersecurity Bootcamp
Industry-led program
First exposure to practical engineering, learning directly from industry professionals about security fundamentals, threat thinking, and how systems actually behave in the real world.
- Security
- Networking
- Foundations
05/Contact
Start a conversation.
Open to internships, collaborations, and AI/software projects with teams building practical systems that ship.
Email↓
aarkiner@gmail.com
Comfortable working across time zones; usually replies within a day.