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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.

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Ahmet Özgün Arkıner at Turkcell Yarının Teknoloji Liderleri 2026

01/Profile

Building software systems, growing into applied AI.

My interest in computers started early — with games and tech — and gradually turned into a fascination with how applications actually work under the hood.

At 14 I joined a Cybersecurity Bootcamp and got my first hands-on exposure to engineering from people doing it for a living. I finished high school at Near East College on the A Level track — Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, and ICT — then started a Double Major in Software Engineering and Computer Engineering at Eastern Mediterranean University, where I'm now a Junior.

Freshman year laid the engineering foundation across software design, systems, and databases. Sophomore year stretched the perspective through collaborative engineering work: product thinking, team communication, and applying technology to real problems.

Today my focus is bridging software engineering with Artificial Intelligence. Python, Machine Learning, Neural Networks — pushed forward by competitive work. I built a RAG-based kiosk assistant at AI Future Minds'25, and led my team to the finalist stage of Turkcell Yarının Teknoloji Liderleri 2026 with “Akıllı Şehir Sağlık Haritası”.

I'm committed to a career in AI and technologies that create meaningful real-world impact.

02/Skills

What I build with, and what I'm building toward.

The toolkit is concentrated on AI / ML right now — but grounded in solid engineering fundamentals.

AI / ML

The core direction — bridging engineering and intelligent systems.

  • Machine Learning
  • Neural Networks
  • RAG
  • LLMs
  • Model Integration

ML & Data Stack

Libraries and tooling — what I reach for when building with models and data.

  • Hugging Face
  • scikit-learn
  • pandas
  • NumPy

Languages

Comfortable across paradigms — typed, low-level, and web.

  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • C++
  • SQL

Web & Software

Modern interfaces, APIs, and the systems behind them.

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • REST APIs
  • Tailwind CSS
  • API Integration

Engineering

Practical engineering — the work of designing, planning, and shipping real systems.

  • Project Management
  • System Design
  • Technical Planning
  • Software Architecture
  • Database Management
  • Git & GitHub

03/Focus

Four disciplines, one trajectory.

The areas I'm investing in — converging on a career building AI products that ship and matter.

01

AI & Machine Learning

Building intelligent systems with Python, neural networks, RAG, and LLM workflows — focused on practical products, not demos.

02

Software Engineering

Designing and shipping reliable software across interfaces, APIs, databases, and system architecture — product-minded engineering from idea to deploy.

03

Product Building

Building focused prototypes from real problem spaces — balancing product clarity, technical tradeoffs, and team execution.

04

Cybersecurity Foundation

A security-first foundation shaped by early cybersecurity training — focused on trust, resilience, and systems that fail safely.

04/Work

Selected work, projects and achievements.

A focused view of the work, role, outcome, and technical direction.

Team finalist photo at Turkcell Yarının Teknoloji Liderleri 2026
Ahmet at the Turkcell awards backdrop
Team working session around laptops
2026/Finalist · Turkcell

Akıllı Şehir Sağlık Haritası

A smart-city health intelligence platform built and recognized at the finalist stage.

Led my team to the finalist stage of Turkcell Yarının Teknoloji Liderleri 2026 with a platform that connects regional health risk data, AI-driven advisory, and scenario simulation into one actionable city layer.

Stage
Finalist
Role
Captain
Focus
Urban systems
Role
Team captain / product systems
Context
Turkcell Yarının Teknoloji Liderleri 2026
Outcome
Finalist stage

Engineering highlights

  • Built a city-scale health risk decision platform deployable across any region, going beyond a standalone map.
  • Connected regional risk scoring, scenario simulation, and AI advisory into a single platform.
  • Captained the team from ideation through the finalist presentation, holding scope and narrative steady.
  • Python
  • AI/ML
  • Data
  • Web
Open field note

Turned a civic technology idea into a coherent product story under competition pressure.

  • The strongest design move was treating the map as an intelligence surface: not just where something is, but what a person or operator should understand next.
  • The finalist process pushed the work beyond implementation ideas into product clarity, stakeholder language, and presentation discipline.
  • The project became a forcing function for leadership: keeping the team aligned, narrowing the scope, and making the story legible fast.
AI Future Minds participant badges
2025/Hackathon

Construction AI Kiosk

A RAG-powered assistant prototype for construction-domain questions.

Led the team as captain and built a Retrieval-Augmented Generation kiosk assistant for the AI Future Minds'25 Construction AI track, using Hugging Face models to process construction-domain material and answer with grounded context.

Pattern
RAG
Role
Captain
Track
Construction AI
Role
Team captain / AI prototype
Context
AI Future Minds'25 Construction AI
Outcome
Applied LLM system

Engineering highlights

  • Led the team as captain while keeping the prototype scope focused under hackathon pressure.
  • Designed the assistant around retrieval and grounded responses instead of a generic chatbot flow.
  • Used Hugging Face tooling to connect model behavior with construction-specific source material.
  • Python
  • RAG
  • Hugging Face
  • LLMs

More code and experiments continue on github.com/ahmetozgunarkiner.

05/Journey

How I got here.

The path so far — formal, informal, and self-directed.

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

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 Junior. 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 — 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

06/Contact

Start a conversation.

Open to internships, collaborations, and AI/software projects with teams building practical systems that ship.

Email↓
aarkiner@gmail.com
LinkedIn@arkiner
GitHub@ahmetozgunarkiner
ResumeView PDF
LocationKyrenia / Remote

Comfortable working across time zones; usually replies within a day.