📍 Istanbul, Türkiye

Emre İlhan Şenel

Software engineer and product builder focused on AI and sustainability

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// about

Background

I'm a software engineer and product builder based in Istanbul. My work sits at the intersection of applied AI, sustainability, and complex product systems—from document intelligence for Pardus AI and multimodal greenwashing research to auditable sustainability data and formulation lifecycle management.

  • Pardus AI · TÜBİTAK BİLGEM YTE

  • TÜBİTAK 3005 Researcher

  • Akbank Sustainable Finance

  • GTU Computer Engineering

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Projects

Tracefo

Design Partners

Live product record and change-impact platform for formulation-based manufacturers

TypeScriptNext.jsNestJSPostgreSQLPrismaRedisBullMQ

Live Product Record + Change Impact + Product Trust Packet

Grendex

In Development

AI-driven sustainability reporting: CDP, ESG indices, audit-ready traceability

FastAPIPythonNext.jsPostgreSQLpgVectorLangChainIBM Docling

GTU Sustainability Office & Environmental Engineering · Product validation track

Cruxet

In Development

Context orchestration layer for AI-native engineering teams via secure MCP workflows

TypeScriptNode.jsFastifyPostgreSQLRedisMCP

Public wedge: mcp-audit — offline MCP config security scanner

Virgola

Paused

Map-based social platform for spontaneous real-life events and community

React NativeNode.jsExpressPostgreSQL

Concept to functional MVP in 2 weeks · Currently paused

Stoknet

Paused

Full-stack SaaS for Turkish SMEs: inventory, pre-accounting, and finance

ReactViteNode.jsExpressPostgreSQLPrisma

180+ API endpoints, 35 models, ~40K LOC · Currently paused

Yollat

Active

Partial-load logistics marketplace matching shipments with unused vehicle capacity

LogisticsMarketplace
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Matching partial loads with available transport capacity

PitchUp

Paused

Investor pre-screening: vertical feed, mandatory metrics, negative filtering

FlutterFirebase
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Vertical feed + mandatory metrics • Negative filtering • Strategically paused

Mistemiz

Paused

Social enterprise: marketplace for formalizing women's employment in home cleaning

FlutterFirebase
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BTM Pre-Incubation • SahneXL Demo Day • Strategically paused

Smart PPE

Completed

RFID, edge vision, and Raspberry Pi access control for PPE compliance

RFIDComputer VisionRaspberry Pi
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GTU course project · Edge vision + physical access control

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Experience

  • Aug 2026 – Sep 2026

    Software R&D Intern

    TÜBİTAK BİLGEM YTE · Pardus

    Developing document intelligence capabilities for Pardus AI, evaluating multilingual RAG configurations for resource-constrained PCs, and building reproducible interoperability tests across Microsoft Office, LibreOffice, and OnlyOffice.

  • Feb 2026 – Present

    Undergraduate Researcher

    Gebze Technical University · TÜBİTAK 3005

    Contributing to project 324K183 on multimodal greenwashing detection in integrated reports, developing deep-learning methods that combine NLP and computer vision.

  • Oct 2024 – Dec 2024

    Sustainable Finance Team Assistant · Investment Banking

    Akbank

    Selected as one of 30 Sustainable Finance Academy participants; won the case competition and conducted MRIO analyses with EXIOBASE and pymrio across six industrial value chains.

  • Jan 2022 – Nov 2023

    Sales & Business Development Associate · Part-Time

    The Golden Horn

    Generated more than $100K in U.S. sales through outbound prospecting and appointment setting while working roughly two days per week.

  • Jul 2023 – Aug 2023

    Software Development Intern

    Agena BST

    Extended the AdSiF agent-based simulation framework with object-oriented Java commands and an Apache POI export workflow for IBM DOORS interoperability.

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Tech stack

Languages

TypeScriptJavaScriptPythonJavaDartSQL

Frontend

ReactNext.jsReact NativeTailwind CSS

Backend

Node.jsExpressFastAPIREST APIsPrisma

Data & ML

PandasNumPyScikit-learnNLPLangChainComputer Vision

Databases & Tools

PostgreSQLFirebaseDockerGit

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Let's build something together

Open to collaborations, research partnerships, and interesting problems.