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Ali D.

Istanbul, Turkey

$30/hr
5.0
8 jobs

Are you looking to integrate custom LLM Agents, ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini, or highly accurate RAG pipelines into your systems without the operational complexity? I build deterministic, scalable, and cost-optimized AI solutions that drive real business value—from initial concept to full AWS deployment. I am a Full-Stack AI/ML Engineer who bridges the gap between cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence and robust software engineering. I don't just train models in notebooks; I conceptualize, design, develop, test, refine, and deploy AI systems that integrate seamlessly into your existing software infrastructure. My approach focuses on solving the biggest bottlenecks in modern AI: reducing API costs, eliminating latency, preventing hallucinations, and lowering operational complexity. Whether you need a custom LangGraph multi-agent system, an intelligent CRM integration, or a scalable backend API, I build solutions with scalability, speed, and maintainability in mind. CORE EXPERTISE & HIGH-DEMAND SOLUTIONS I BUILD: LLM Integrations & Advanced Agentic Workflows • API Integrations: Deep expertise in OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini, and open-source models (Qwen, Llama, Mistral). • Agent Architectures: Building complex, multi-agent systems using LangGraph and custom frameworks. • Cost & Speed Optimization: Implementing model routing, response caching, and prompt engineering to keep API costs down while maximizing speed. • Deterministic AI: Forcing LLMs to produce structured, predictable outputs using Pydantic, JSON schemas, and function calling. • Smart Feature Extraction: Offloading tasks from expensive LLMs to efficient algorithms whenever possible to save you money and ensure accuracy. RAG Pipelines & Intelligent Data Processing • Enterprise RAG: Building Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems (document ingestion, hybrid retrieval, response generation) with extreme accuracy and consistency. • Vector Search: Implementing advanced search algorithms using Vector Databases (Pinecone, Chroma, etc.). • Document Parsing & OCR: Extracting actionable data from PDFs, Word docs, Excel, CSVs, and integrating them into your AI systems. AI Automations & Third-Party Integrations • Workflow Automation: Building no-code/low-code pipelines using n8n, Make, and Zapier to create end-to-end AI-powered workflows. • Platform Integrations: Connecting AI agents to Slack, ClickUp, WhatsApp, Twilio, Shopify, Amazon, Monday, Notion, Airtable, HubSpot, Salesforce, Zapier, Make, Google Workspace, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram and existing CRMs to automate business management. • Webhooks & Custom APIs: Developing secure webhooks to route data flawlessly between platforms. Voice AI & Computer Vision • Speech-to-Text & Text-to-Speech: Integrating state-of-the-art voice pipelines (WhisperX, Faster-Whisper, Deepgram, ElevenLabs, Retell, Pyannote for speaker diarization). • Computer Vision: Developing comprehensive Deep Learning solutions including Object Detection (YOLO architectures), Image Classification, Facial Recognition, and Semantic Segmentation (DeepLabV3+). Expertise in PyTorch/Torchvision frameworks and building robust image processing pipelines with OpenCV. Data Science, Predictive ML & LLMOps • Predictive Analytics: Beyond GenAI, I utilize the Python data stack (Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, XGBoost) for deep data analysis, forecasting, and classification on structured business data. • Security & Monitoring: Ensuring enterprise data privacy by deploying air-gapped local LLMs (Ollama, vLLM) and using LLMOps tools (LangSmith) to track agent behavior, rigorously evaluate RAG accuracy, and prevent prompt injections. Full-Stack Deployment, MLOps & Cloud Infrastructure • Backend Development: Writing powerful Python scripts and building ultra-fast APIs with Python FastAPI. • Cloud & DB: Deploying on AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda) with PostgreSQL and MongoDB architectures. • Containerization & Optimization: Dockerizing applications, utilizing ONNX and Quantization techniques to run heavy ML models on CPU for maximum cost efficiency. • Frontend/Dashboards: Creating interactive UIs with Streamlit for quick demonstrations and internal tools. PROVEN TRACK RECORD: As a graduate of Software Engineering and a highly prestigious, government-backed AI & Technology Academy, I thrive in high-pressure, results-oriented environments. My portfolio includes fully deployed systems such as: • AI-Powered Background Removers with Google OAuth and AWS deployment. • Fine-tuned NLP & RAG systems generating automated test queries. • Full-scale App Review Analyzers using BERTopic and AWS RDS. • Local, offline AI Agents with real-time web search capabilities. Let's Build Something Impactful. I am highly communicative, proactive, and dedicated to solving your specific business bottlenecks. Send me a message, and let's discuss how we can turn your data and ideas into a deployed, revenue-generating AI product.

  • Data Science
  • Machine Learning
  • Python
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Deep Learning
  • Data Engineering
  • MLOps
  • Model Tuning
  • Model Optimization
  • Model Deployment
  • Docker
  • FastAPI
  • Streamlit
  • AI Agent Development
  • Chatbot
Ozge G.

Istanbul, Turkey

$15/hr
5.0
1 jobs

I’m a Python & SQL Data Analyst with hands-on experience building automation workflows, ETL pipelines, dashboards, and machine learning models. I focus on turning raw, messy data into clean, actionable insights that help businesses make faster and better decisions. I hold the IBM Data Science Professional Certificate and completed the 200+ hour MIUUL Data Science Bootcamp, where I worked end-to-end on real projects involving data cleaning, EDA, feature engineering, modeling, and reporting. I’ve delivered practical solutions such as CRM analytics (RFM, CLTV prediction, churn analysis), e-commerce and food industry data analysis, recommendation logic, and business intelligence dashboards (Power BI, Python/Plotly). What I can help you with: • Python data scripts, automation & ETL • SQL queries, reporting & database cleanup • Data cleaning, preprocessing & transformation • Dashboards (Power BI / Plotly) • Machine learning models (prediction, classification) • A/B testing, customer insights, KPI tracking I’m detail-oriented, fast to adapt, and focused on delivering clean, reliable results. Happy to help with both small tasks and end-to-end analytics projects.

  • Data Analysis
  • Machine Learning
  • Python
  • ETL
  • Data Extraction
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Data Visualization
  • SQL
  • Microsoft Power BI
  • Time Series Forecasting
  • Data Cleaning
  • Feature Engineering
  • List Building
  • Web Scraping
  • Microsoft Excel
Boran Oktay D.

Istanbul, Turkey

$50/hr
4.8
125 jobs

Most AI projects fail. Not because of bad technology, but because the developer does not understand the business behind it. That is exactly the gap I close. I do not ship demos. I ship systems that run in production, built around how your business actually works. Top Rated Plus AI Engineer, top 1% on Upwork. 100% Job Success Score. 90+ completed projects, 5,000+ hours, zero failed deliveries. My AI systems have generated over $1,000,000 in measurable revenue for my clients. 💬 Not sure where to start? Message me and I will set up a FREE 30-minute AI strategy call. I will map out exactly what your project needs, at no cost to you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜 𝗕𝗨𝗜𝗟𝗗 𝐀𝐈 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 & 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 Custom AI agents, multi-agent frameworks, RAG pipelines, LangChain and LangGraph orchestration, OpenAI and Claude integrations, vector databases (Pinecone, ChromaDB, GraphRAG), advanced prompt engineering and evaluation. 𝐀𝐈 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐝) Taking a process that eats hours every week and turning it into something that runs on its own, with a human kept in the loop wherever judgment is required. Custom Python orchestration when the logic is real, n8n / Make / Zapier when a no-code layer is the right call, and the integration work between them: CRM (ZOHO), internal tools, APIs, webhooks, data flows across your stack. 𝐒𝐚𝐚𝐒 & 𝐌𝐕𝐏 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 End to end AI powered SaaS builds. Python and FastAPI backends, authentication, billing, dashboards, cloud deployment on AWS, GCP or Azure. From a blank repository to a live product with paying users. 𝐀𝐈 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐬 & 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 Support and sales chatbots grounded in your own documents and data, so answers come from your business and not from a generic model. Healthcare and SaaS deployments, web and messaging channels, escalation to a human when confidence is low. 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐏𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 & 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐈 Large scale web scraping, ETL, cleaning and enrichment. The unglamorous layer that decides whether an AI system is actually useful. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗜 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗕𝗨𝗜𝗟𝗧 𝗔𝗜 𝗦𝗬𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗠𝗦 𝗙𝗢𝗥 Trukkin (logistics) · LGFG Fashion House (fashion) · Ultrassure (insurance) · Genvision (climate tech) · Bowery Boost (performance marketing) · Moor Marketing (lead generation) · Ta3swim (ecommerce) Seven industries, one approach: find the biggest bottleneck, then build the AI system that removes it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗨𝗟𝗧𝗦 𝗕𝗬 𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗨𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗬 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞: 30+ automation projects (Zillow, CoStar), AI powered house price calculators, ZOHO CRM integrations. 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: AI SEO researchers, content generators, YouTube analytics agents, full blog production pipelines. 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 & 𝐒𝐚𝐚𝐒: AI chatbots, personalized email systems, lead generation platforms taken from zero to live, revenue generating products. 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬 & 𝐆𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭: AI sales agents, lead research and qualification, outreach personalization at scale. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝗖𝗨𝗥𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗟𝗬 𝗕𝗨𝗜𝗟𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 A weekly ML agents program on a single production system, running since February 2025. A RAG orchestration and prompt engineering layer on top of an existing LLM product. An AI content pipeline in daily production use. Long engagements, not one off scripts, which is where the 100% Job Success Score comes from. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝗧𝗘𝗖𝗛 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗖𝗞 𝐋𝐋𝐌𝐬 & 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬: Claude (Anthropic), OpenAI GPT, Gemini, MCP servers and connectors, agentic and multi-agent architectures, LangChain, LangGraph, function calling, evaluation and guardrails 𝐑𝐀𝐆 & 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚: RAG pipelines, GraphRAG, embeddings, vector databases (Pinecone, ChromaDB), PostgreSQL, ETL, large scale scraping 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐝: Python, FastAPI, Node.js, REST APIs, webhooks, Docker 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: n8n, Make, Zapier, ZOHO CRM, third party API integration 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝: AWS, GCP, Azure ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗜 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞 I ask about the business before I write code. I tell you when something should not be automated. I document what I build so your team can own it after I am gone. Response time is usually under 4 hours. Ready to build your AI revenue engine? 📩 Message me. I am available 24/7.

  • Machine Learning
  • Python
  • AI Agent Development
  • AI Chatbot
  • Generative AI
  • AI Consulting
  • LangChain
  • Large Language Model
  • Retrieval Augmented Generation
  • Prompt Engineering
  • AI App Development
  • OpenAI API
  • ChatGPT
  • Automated Workflow
  • Full-Stack Development
  • Make.com
Huseyin C.

Istanbul, Turkey

$30/hr
4.6
29 jobs

🏆 TOP RATED PLUS🏆 S.DATA SCIENTIST & AI DEVELOPER | RAG | Msc. Statistics | MongoDB | Supabase | Docker | LocalLLM | Dokploy | Agent | Langchain | Backend | Google Cloud | Python | R | SQL | Power BI | Tableau | Looker Studio | Machine Learning & Web Scraping | ✅ IBM Certified 🏆 🎖️ 10 years+ of experience in Data Science 💯 Less than 1 Hour Response time ✅ 100% business success on numerous projects 📊 10+ years in Data Science & Mathematic & Statistic ⭐️ 2024 Tableau Academic Ambassador 🎓 Master's in Statistics 💼 Delivered actionable insights, driving decision-making and business improvements 🔧 Proficient in SQL, Power BI, Tableau, Excel, Python, R, Web Scraping, and AI for comprehensive data analysis, visualization, and model development 🔥 RECENTLY COMPLETED PROJECTS 🔥 🌐 Company Insights Tracker: Leveraged web scraping to automate data processing and extract valuable business insights. 📊 Executive Sales Analysis: Created dynamic Power BI dashboards to visualize trends and optimize decision-making. 🏚️ Depreme Hazır Ol: Data analysis and visualization for disaster preparedness using real-time data. 🍕 Pizza Sales Performance Tracker: Designed interactive Tableau dashboards to monitor real-time regional sales. 📈 Interactive Power BI Dashboards: Developed dashboards integrating data from multiple sources to enhance business intelligence. 💡 Churn Analysis & Segmentation: Applied segmentation techniques to analyze customer churn and create predictive models for better retention strategies. 🔍 Customer Behavior Analysis: Utilized web scraping and clustering to improve customer targeting strategies. 📊 Market Trend Analysis: Used SQL and Power BI to track market trends and deliver actionable insights. 📈 Sales Segmentation: Performed segmentation analysis to optimize marketing efforts. 🔍 Cluster Analysis: Applied clustering techniques (K-Means, DBSCAN, AffinityPropagation) to identify patterns in customer behavior for targeted strategies. 📅 Time Series Forecasting: Utilized ARIMA, SARIMA, and Prophet models for forecasting sales, demand, and other key metrics. 🌟 AI-Driven Projects 🌟 🎯 Text Generation with GPT Models: Created human-like text for content automation. 📚 Chat with Multiple PDFs: Developed an application using GPT and Gemini models to query multiple PDF documents efficiently. 💊 Medical RAG QA App: Built a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) application for accurate medical domain-specific queries. 🔍 NER Application with Gliner: Designed a Named Entity Recognition (NER) solution for specialized tasks. 🎯 Fine-Tuning LLMs: Customized GPT, Gemini, and Hugging Face models for domain-specific tasks to enhance performance. 🔍 MY EXPERTISE 🔍 Technical Skills: 📊 Data Analysis (SQL, Python, Data Cleaning, Integration), Data Visualization (Power BI, Tableau, Excel, Google Sheets, Dashboard Design), Web Scraping, Reporting, KPI Tracking 🧠 Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Generative AI, LLMs (GPT, BERT, RoBERTa, T5, ALBERTA, ELECTRA, Gemini), TensorFlow, Keras, Feature Engineering, Model Evaluation, Hyperparameter Tuning Soft Skills: 💡 Creative Problem Solving, Analytical Thinking, Strong Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Time Management Languages: 🌍 English (Advanced), 🇹🇷 Turkish (Native) 🚀 WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOU 🚀 📈 Analyze complex data to uncover actionable insights and drive business intelligence 🖥️ Design and develop interactive dashboards and reports to streamline decision-making 🌐 Extract, clean, and integrate data using SQL, Python, and web scraping techniques for better accuracy and efficiency 💡 Develop and deploy Generative AI, LLM solutions, and predictive models to innovate and optimize business strategies 📊 Automate content generation, predictive tasks, and decision-making processes with machine learning models 🎯 WHY YOU NEED ME 🎯 💡 You want to leverage advanced data analysis and visualization techniques to enhance your business intelligence 🚀 You need expert support in building and optimizing AI models for innovation and scaling 💼 You seek actionable insights and predictive solutions to solve complex business challenges 🔑 You need a professional to optimize your data analysis, reporting, and visualization processes for long-term success 💼 BENEFITS OF WORKING WITH ME 💼 ✔️ Proven success in delivering impactful and high-quality data analysis, AI, and machine learning solutions ⚡ Fast and professional service, with a focus on client success and results 🔑 Innovative solutions for data-driven decision-making and AI challenges 🔄 Reliable long-term partnership for continuous improvement and growth 💬 Let’s connect and explore how I can help you achieve your data and AI goals! 🚀

  • Data Science
  • Data Analysis
  • Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Python
  • Statistics
  • Data Visualization
  • Tableau
  • SQL
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Power BI
  • Deep Learning
  • Generative AI
  • Supabase
  • Cloud Services
  • Machine Learning Algorithm
  • Deep Learning Modeling
  • Large Language Model
  • AI Marketplace
  • Artificial Intelligence
Ahmet T.

Istanbul, Turkey

$20/hr
5.0
1 jobs

I graduated Bahçeşehir University. I studied at the department of electrical and electronics engineering. Previously, I worked as an intern at Heweso Web Design and E-commerce Solutions. I made a project at school called "Infinity Mirror Clock".As a group, we did a project called "Autonomous WhiteBoard Eraser". As a foreign language, I know English at a good level, I know German at a beginner level. I worked at Yıldırım Group in software development and SAP Basis departmants. Now currently Im working at NTT Data Business Solutions as SAP Basis Consultant.

  • Data Science
  • Data Analysis
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Microsoft Word
  • SAP BASIS
  • SAP
  • SAP HANA
  • Linux System Administration
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Data Manipulation Language
Eren G.

Istanbul, Turkey

$10/hr
5.0
4 jobs

I build Python/ML solutions for finance & economics: time‑series forecasting, algorithmic trading bots, econometric models, and data dashboards. Delivered results: ↓ error rates, ↑ ROI, clean reproducible code. I help founders, analysts, and funds turn messy financial/economic data into actionable models, forecasts, and dashboards. What I Do (Deliverables) Time‑Series & Econometric Modeling: ARIMA/SARIMAX, VAR, GARCH, Prophet, LSTM/Transformers, DSGE/ABM setups Algorithmic / Quant Trading: strategy design, backtesting, execution logic, risk metrics, performance reports NLP & Sentiment for Markets: news/social sentiment pipelines (NLTK, FinBERT/FinGPT), feature engineering Data Engineering & Dashboards: ETL pipelines, feature stores, KPI dashboards (Power BI / Plotly / Streamlit) Statistical Analysis & Reports: hypothesis tests, A/B tests, policy briefs, academic‑style writeups Tech Stack Python (pandas, NumPy, scikit‑learn, statsmodels, TensorFlow/PyTorch), SQL, Optuna, MLflow, CCXT, yfinance, Prophet, Power BI, Excel (advanced), Git/GitHub. Recent Outcomes Cut MAPE of a crypto price model from 18% → 8% with LSTM + feature engineering Built a trading backtester (SOL/altcoins) with whale-tracking signals → sharpe ↑, DD ↓ Delivered an NGDP-targeting econometric dashboard for macro policy analysis (Turkey/US) Automated data pipelines & reporting for a small fund (daily email + dashboard refresh) How I Work Quick call / brief → define success metrics, timeline, deliverables Proof of concept (POC) in 1–3 days when possible Iterative build with clear commits & checkpoints Clean handoff: docs + reproducible code + short Loom walkthrough if needed Let’s Talk Need a forecast, bot, dashboard, or a fast data deep‑dive? Send me a short brief or your dataset and let’s scope a mini POC today.

  • Data Science
  • Data Analysis
  • Python
  • R
  • SQL
  • MATLAB
  • Statistical Computing
  • Stata
  • Finance
  • Statics
  • LaTeX
  • Time Series Analysis
  • Random Forest
  • Data Cleaning

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