Deniz Etkar

Experience

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  TR.NET

  Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

  Intern

  Worked on solving a single facility location problem about an investment decision by creating an MINLP model of the problem. Developed an open-source optimization tools project in C++ to solve mathematical optimization problems such as linear programming (LP) and MINLP problems.

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  ING Bank Turkey

  Jul 2018 - Aug 2018

  Intern

  Tested, maintained and developed automation scripts that perform banking related tasks written in a proprietary language. Created an open-source ML project using transformer models for document classification.

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  Technical University of Munich

  Jan 2021 - Feb 2022

  Tutorship

  Tutored students of the Distributed Systems lecture offered at Technical University of Munich, and prepared weekly quiz questions.

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  Siemens

  Sept 2021 - Sept 2022

  Digitalization of the additive manufacturing monitoring at the edge side using principles from IoT. Developed a containerized in-memory spatiotemporal database with disk-backed caching in Go language, capable of handling on the order of 1 million writes per second. Master's thesis on the topic of robust defect classification in additive manufacturing. Implemented GAN and meta learning based deep learning models using PyTorch Lightning, and a data preprocessing pipeline to prepare the datasets for training.

  • Working Student

    Apr 2022 - Sept 2022

  • Master's Student

    Sept 2021 - Apr 2022
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  TNG Technology Consulting

  Jan 2022 - now

  Software Consultant