Umut Karakulak

Umut Karakulak

Web Development & Machine Learning

Someone who is passionate about experimenting with innovative, state of the art technologies. Currently working as a full-stack developer with a touch of machine learning for good measure.

About Me

Languages

100%
Turkish (Native)
90%
English (Professional)
70%
Japanese (Conversational)

Programming Skills

Python
SQL
Javascript
Typescript
Node.js
Next.js
React
AWS
Django
Flask
Computer Vision
NLP
Machine Learning
AR / VR
NumPy
Pandas
Tensorflow
Keras
Data Visualization
Linux
Git
Web Design
HTML
CSS

Work History

  • Wevnal Co.,Ltd

    Wevnal Co.,Ltd

    Tokyo, Japan
    Senior Specialist

    Working as a Senior Specialist on the BX platform BOTCHAN at Wevnal Co., Ltd



  • Dunksoft Co.,Ltd

    Dunksoft Co.,Ltd

    Tokyo, Japan
    Full Stack Engineer

    Development lead and management of WeARee! a community creation platform for everyone.

    Data Scientist

    Research, data analysis, preparation and realization of in-house machine learning models and API's on a variety of problem domains.



  • obase

    obase

    Istanbul, Turkey
    Software Engineering Intern

    Played an active role on development for an ERP project for a large e-commerce company.



  • Dunksoft Co.,Ltd

    Dunksoft Co.,Ltd

    Tokyo, Japan
    Software Engineering Intern

    Development of an innovative video conferencing tool using Microsoft Kinect for pose estimation and speech analysis.



  • Freelance

    Istanbul, Turkey
    Software Developer

    Intermittently worked as a freelancer for a wide variety of companies including Microsoft Turkey. Developing mostly windows applications using .NET framework.

Education

Yeditepe University

Yeditepe University

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science Engineering

Projects

WeARee!

WeARee!

Lead Development & Project Management

A SaaS platform where users can create interactive spaces, without any coding knowledge. WeARee! aims to provide fun and innovative tools for building communities, accessible to anyone from anywhere. These tools include AR events, web page creation, virtual tours, 3D models, stamp rallies, and much more.

Cryptocurrency Tax Calculator

Cryptocurrency Tax Calculator

Personal Project

Most famous tax calculators either did not have proper support for the platforms I've used or was not supporting Japanese tax formula. Domestic tools were too expensive to justify, with these excuses created my own tax calculator to practice my web dev.

Buddy-19

Buddy-19

Personal Project

A web app that has been created during initial months of COVID-19 lockdown. A platform where multiple people can watch videos, play games and even create custom flows together using web sockets. Meant as a complimentary app for online meetings, thus the name buddy-19.

Computer Vision API

Computer Vision API

Development

Developed a variety of machine learning APIs and models for internal use, specifically focusing on transparent image processing and analysis. With all the black-box steps of the deep neural networks are exposed in a human readable way as much as possible, ensuring clarity in the process.

Natural Language Understanding API

Natural Language Understanding API

Development

Developed a variety of machine learning APIs and models for natural language understanding, with a focus on the Japanese language for internal company use. This includes keyword extraction, summarization, similarity index, emotion analysis, and many more.

Artificial Musical Compositions Using Deep Belief Nets and Genetic Algorithms

Artificial Musical Compositions Using Deep Belief Nets and Genetic Algorithms

Author

As a graduation project, I've designed an innovative method for composing music using a hybrid structure. The fitness function of a genetic algorithm is constructed from a k-means filter of an unsupervised neural network output. This structure allows for the emulation of human behaviors without introducing any bias.

Awards

Tokyo Public Transportation Open Data Challenge INIAD special innovation award

Tokyo Public Transportation Open Data Challenge INIAD special innovation award

Issued by Tokyo ODPT, INIAD · Dec 2019

Sounds of Transport aims to showcase the intricate harmony behind Tokyo's complex railway system by utilizing train schedules provided by ODPT and customizable map triggers to generate music.

Imagine Cup 2009 World Finalist

Imagine Cup 2009 World Finalist

Issued by Microsoft · Jul 2009

Co-developer of CogoStuff, winner of Imagine Cup Turkey 2009 in software development branch, world finalist.

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