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I'm Yigit Can Ozkaya, an Applied AI/ML engineer with an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. I have 2+ years of experience building production-grade web software and ML-enabled systems, with a strong frontend background in Angular, TypeScript, and RxJS. I'm actively developing expertise in LLM systems (RAG, evaluation) and automated program repair. As the co-founder of Yousha, I lead end-to-end projects from generation pipelines to print fulfillment, delivering personalized children's books. I built the core platform (Node/Express backend, Redis-based task/state handling, deployments on Railway), added product analytics with PostHog, and designed scalable pipelines to generate print-ready assets and fulfil printer orders. I also pursued research at Capisoft as a thesis intern, focusing on automated program repair with Code-LLMs and developing an evaluation harness for retrieval-augmented repair methods.…I'm Yigit Can Ozkaya, an Applied AI/ML engineer with an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. I have 2+ years of experience building production-grade web software and ML-enabled systems, with a strong frontend background in Angular, TypeScript, and RxJS. I'm actively developing expertise in LLM systems (RAG, evaluation) and automated program repair. As the co-founder of Yousha, I lead end-to-end projects from generation pipelines to print fulfillment, delivering personalized children's books. I built the core platform (Node/Express backend, Redis-based task/state handling, deployments on Railway), added product analytics with PostHog, and designed scalable pipelines to generate print-ready assets and fulfil printer orders. I also pursued research at Capisoft as a thesis intern, focusing on automated program repair with Code-LLMs and developing an evaluation harness for retrieval-augmented repair methods.

Yigit Can Ozkaya

AI Engineer, Front-End Developer, Full Stack Developer, +2

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I'm Yigit Can Ozkaya, an Applied AI/ML engineer with an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. I have 2+ years of experience building production-grade web software and ML-enabled systems, with a strong frontend background in Angular, TypeScript, and RxJS. I'm actively developing expertise in LLM systems (RAG, evaluation) and automated program repair. As the co-founder of Yousha, I lead end-to-end projects from generation pipelines to print fulfillment, delivering personalized children's books. I built the core platform (Node/Express backend, Redis-based task/state handling, deployments on Railway), added product analytics with PostHog, and designed scalable pipelines to generate print-ready assets and fulfil printer orders. I also pursued research at Capisoft as a thesis intern, focusing on automated program repair with Code-LLMs and developing an evaluation harness for retrieval-augmented repair methods.…I'm Yigit Can Ozkaya, an Applied AI/ML engineer with an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. I have 2+ years of experience building production-grade web software and ML-enabled systems, with a strong frontend background in Angular, TypeScript, and RxJS. I'm actively developing expertise in LLM systems (RAG, evaluation) and automated program repair. As the co-founder of Yousha, I lead end-to-end projects from generation pipelines to print fulfillment, delivering personalized children's books. I built the core platform (Node/Express backend, Redis-based task/state handling, deployments on Railway), added product analytics with PostHog, and designed scalable pipelines to generate print-ready assets and fulfil printer orders. I also pursued research at Capisoft as a thesis intern, focusing on automated program repair with Code-LLMs and developing an evaluation harness for retrieval-augmented repair methods.

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I’m Yigit Can Ozkaya, an Applied AI/ML engineer with an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. I have 2+ years of experience building production-grade web software and ML-enabled systems, with a strong frontend background in Angular, TypeScript, and RxJS. I’m actively developing expertise in LLM systems (RAG, evaluation) and automated program repair.

As the co-founder of Yousha, I lead end-to-end projects from generation pipelines to print fulfillment, delivering personalized children’s books. I built the core platform (Node/Express backend, Redis-based task/state handling, deployments on Railway), added product analytics with PostHog, and designed scalable pipelines to generate print-ready assets and fulfil printer orders. I also pursued research at Capisoft as a thesis intern, focusing on automated program repair with Code-LLMs and developing an evaluation harness for retrieval-augmented repair methods.

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Work Experience

Co-Founder at Yousha

September 1, 2025 - Present

Co-founded a personalized children’s book startup, generating custom illustrated books using image models and automating the flow from user input to print-ready output. Built and operated the core platform: Node/Express backend, Redis-backed task/state handling, and deployments on Railway. Implemented product analytics and funnel visibility with PostHog. Designed the production pipeline for creating print-ready assets and sending orders to the printer.

Thesis Intern at Capisoft

February 1, 2025 - September 1, 2025

Researched automated program repair with Code-LLMs, emphasizing retrieval-augmented generation using structured error–repair examples. Built an experimental pipeline and evaluation harness to measure repair success via unit tests (pass@1), enabling reproducible comparisons across retrieval and prompting variants.

Front-end Developer at Auxilius

June 1, 2022 - February 1, 2025

Developed clinical trial financial management software for biopharma using Angular, TypeScript, RxJS, Ag-Grid, Tailwind, GraphQL, and Chart.js to deliver responsive, data-heavy UIs.

Data Scientist Intern at Kavak.com

January 1, 2022 - May 1, 2022

Developed a real-time logging pipeline using the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for analysis and visualization. Predicted future car prices using ensemble decision-tree models (e.g., LightGBM) trained on 6 months of historical data and validated with standard regression metrics.