ALI ARDA FINCAN

ML ENGINEER / RESEARCHER

WELCOME TO MY LATENT SPACE

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NAMEALI ARDA FINCAN
CLASSML / RESEARCH ENGINEER
LEVEL21
GUILDMAGIBU AI
ORIGINISTANBUL, TR
EDUYEDITEPE UNIV. CS '27
WEAPONPYTORCH +3
PYTORCH 95/100
TOKENS 99/100
TURKISH TEA 100/100

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QUEST LOG

ML ENGINEER

EARLY-STAGE AI AUDIO STARTUP / AUG 2026 – PRESENT / PART TIME

Fine-tuned a latent diffusion model for audio with LoRA adapters; built conditional generation for a low-resource music domain. Owned evaluation: FAD + CLAP, fixed seeds, single-variable ablations.

DEVOPS ENGINEER INTERN

PEAK GAMES / AUG 2026

Built an internal AI agent in Go that updates cdk8s config across AWS accounts from natural-language prompts, replacing manual edits for ~2000 services. Shipped to EKS as 5 microservices with Terraform and GitHub Actions.

RESEARCH ENGINEER

MAGIBU AI / JUN 2024 – PRESENT

Pre-trained ~50M-param language models in PyTorch; designed tokenization techniques cutting Turkish token count by 40% vs BPE. Built the eval harness for TR-MMLU. Co-authored 3 papers.

CO-FOUNDER

COUTURE ISTANBUL / DEC 2023 – JUN 2024

Fashion brand generating unique designs per customer with diffusion models. Built the image generation pipelines and wired model output into the frontend.

ACHIEVEMENTS

EDUBSC COMPUTER ENGINEERING, YEDITEPE UNIVERSITY — ONGOING (GRAD. 2027)
PAPERSETTING STANDARDS IN TURKISH NLP: TR-MMLU — IEEE SIU 2025
PAPERTOKENIZATION STANDARDS: LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS ON TURKISH — IEEE SIU 2025
PAPERTOKENS WITH MEANING: A HYBRID TOKENIZATION APPROACH FOR NLP
SIDE QUESTPEER REVIEWER, ACM TALLIP 2026
BUILDMCP SERVER FOR US STOCK MARKETS — LIVE PRICES, NEWS AND ESTIMATES FOR LLMS
BUILDLEGAL PRECEDENT SEARCH — RAG PIPELINE OVER CASE LAW (EMBEDDINGS, VECTOR DB, POSTGRES)
BUILDDOCSGPT (OPEN SOURCE) — AGENT USAGE LIMITING AND API ORIGIN WHITELISTING