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Arda Gundogdu

AI Engineer & Gen AI Specialist

Building intelligent systems with LLMs, RAG pipelines, and Knowledge Graphs. Passionate about creating AI agents that bridge natural language and complex workflows.
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LLMs
Fine-tuning & Inference
RAG
Graph RAG & Vector Search
MCP
Autonomous Agent Systems

About Me

I'm a passionate AI Engineering student at TOBB University of Economics and Technology, specializing in Generative AI and intelligent systems. My focus is on building AI agents that bridge natural language and complex technical workflows.

I'm deeply experienced in LLMs, RAG systems, Knowledge Graphs, and AI orchestration frameworks. I've built Karien, an AI operating system interface that demonstrates my expertise in creating production-ready AI applications with real-world impact.

Currently seeking international AI/ML internship opportunities where I can contribute to cutting-edge Gen AI projects and learn from industry leaders.

Core Expertise

Large Language Models

Building applications with GPT, Claude, and Llama models. Experience in fine-tuning and prompt optimization.

RAG Systems

Designing retrieval-augmented generation pipelines with vector databases for context-aware AI applications.

Knowledge Graphs

Implementing KG-FiD and Fusion-in-Decoder architectures for enhanced knowledge retrieval.

AI Agents

Creating autonomous agents using Model Context Protocol for complex multi-step workflows.

Prompt Engineering

Crafting effective prompts and building robust prompt pipelines for production AI systems.

AI Orchestration

Leveraging LangChain and LlamaIndex for building scalable, production-ready AI applications.

Quick Info

Location

Ankara, Turkey

Email

abdullahardagundogduxd@gmail.com

University

TOBB ETU

Status

Open to Internships

Skills & Expertise

Gen AI & LLMs

  • PEFT / LoRA Fine-tuning
  • Local Inference (Ollama/vLLM)
  • Advanced Prompt Engineering
  • Model Evaluation & Testing
  • Quantization & Optimization
  • Synthetic Data Generation

RAG & Knowledge

  • Vector Databases
  • Pinecone / Chroma
  • Knowledge Graphs
  • FiD / KG-FiD
  • Embeddings
  • Agentic/Semantic Chunking

AI Frameworks

  • LangChain / LangGraph
  • CrewAI
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • Hugging Face
  • LlamaIndex
  • DSPy

Development

  • Python
  • Java
  • FastMCP
  • FastAPI
  • Git
  • Docker

Experience

Long Term Intern

SimBT

Ankara, Turkey

  • Contributing to advanced AI solutions and simulations.
  • Developing specialized machine learning models for industry applications.
  • Active involvement in software development lifecycles.

Long Term Intern

Treomind

Ankara, Türkiye

  • Designed and implemented a Speech-to-Text -> LLM -> Text-to-Speech pipeline, enabling near real-time conversational AI assistants.
  • Developed PII masking and anonymization system using regex, spaCy, and Microsoft Presidio, ensuring GDPR-compliant data processing.
  • Built a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline with LangChain, Chroma vector database, and Ollama embeddings to improve knowledge retrieval accuracy.
  • Integrated SOAP/Oracle services with Elasticsearch and IBM Watsonx to automate document classification and legal case retrieval.
  • Conducted performance tests on latency and inference optimization, reducing response delay in live call-center prototypes.

Projects

Karien - AI Desktop Companion

Independent Project

  • Developed a fully interactive voice-activated AI companion that lives on your desktop and assists with everyday tasks
  • Gave the AI a unique personality, bringing it to life with an expressive animated avatar that reacts to conversations
  • Engineered the system to understand speech in real-time and securely control desktop applications
  • Ensured privacy and performance by allowing the AI to run completely locally on the user's hardware without needing the internet

AI Customer Representative

B2B Project

  • Built an automated voice-calling AI agent for a bank to handle common customer inquiries and reduce call center wait times
  • Designed the agent to sound and interact just like a real human, naturally holding back-and-forth phone conversations
  • Integrated an intelligent search system (RAG) so the AI can securely look up and answer questions about specific banking data
  • Implemented strict security filters to ensure sensitive personal information is never exposed or stored improperly

Synthetic Personality Analysis with NLP

BIL 470 Senior Project

  • Conducted an academic research project to discover if a person's hobbies can be accurately guessed just by reading their personality profile
  • Analyzed massive datasets of character descriptions to find hidden connections between character traits and personal interests
  • Utilized advanced language and predictive models to automatically read profiles and reliably categorize their hobbies
  • Successfully trained a custom neural network that translates personality profiles directly into expected hobby recommendations

TTS Training Data Generator

B2B Project

  • Created an all-in-one web platform that makes it incredibly easy to produce professional voice cloning datasets from scratch
  • Used AI to automatically write thousands of diverse practice sentences for text-to-speech models to read
  • Streamlined the entire process of generating custom audio clips and organizing them into ready-to-train datasets
  • Built in the ability to train and test new voice models directly inside the web browser without any complex setup

Education

B.Sc. Artificial Intelligence Engineering

TOBB University of Economics and Technology

Ankara, Türkiye

  • Specializing in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Natural Language Processing
  • Coursework in AI Systems, Neural Networks, and Knowledge Representation
  • Building practical AI applications with focus on Gen AI technologies
  • Active member of university AI research community

Science High School

Rasim Şahinkaya Science High School

Bursa, Türkiye

  • Advanced STEM curriculum focusing on Mathematics and Physics
  • Active member of the Coding and Robotics Club
  • GPA: 5.00 / 5.00

Let's Connect

I'm actively seeking international AI/ML internship opportunities. Open to conversations about Gen AI projects, research collaborations, or positions where I can contribute to cutting-edge AI systems.

GitHub

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