Enes S.

AI Engineer

Toronto, Canada

Experience

Mar 2025 - Present
10 months
Toronto, Canada

AI Engineer

Independent Self-Employed

  • Multiple freelance engagements for diverse clients, delivering end-to-end AI and ML engineering solutions.
  • An application that uses a LLM to automatically extract concepts, relationships, and hierarchies from domain text and generate a structured ontology.
  • An AI agent that performs reverse image search and integrates multi-source reasoning to identify people or contextual details from a single input image.
Aug 2024 - Jan 2025
6 months
United States

Quant Data Scientist

Blockhouse

  • Applied policy gradient based deep reinforcement learning methods (SAC, PPO) to optimize price impact during trading using Stable-Baselines3.
  • Debugged the trading RL agent’s learning dynamics, culminating in demonstrable learning improvements and convergence.
  • Deployed the RL agent model using the Ray Serve framework on AWS.
Oct 2019 - Mar 2024
4 years 6 months
Toronto, Canada

NLP Machine Learning Engineer

Creative Destruction Lab

  • Used ensemble methods, multi-kernel learning, few-shot learning and active learning, LLM fine-tuning to enhance model accuracy for financial text and tabular classification by 10-20%.
  • Developed products based on applied NLP, focusing on semantic retrieval, ranking, clustering, RAG, and summarization for the venture capital industry.
  • Implemented and containerized data preprocessing and prediction pipelines using Pandas, Polars, Docker and Apache Airflow.
  • Built a multi-GPU Bayesian hyperparameter optimization pipeline using Ray, resulting in a 4-5% improvement in F1 score.
  • Created a single-node, multi-GPU training pipeline using PyTorch, leveraging data and pipeline parallelism.
  • Managed MLOps processes including model deployment to production (AWS Sagemaker), monitoring, maintenance, and drift detection.
  • Conducted literature reviews, researched and prototyped new models.
  • Performed model explainability with SHAP and Captum.
Jul 2016 - Jun 2017
1 year
Ankara, Turkey

Intern and Research Engineer

ASELSAN

  • Developed a CNN-based predictive model using transfer learning for fine-grained car make/model classification for visual surveillance.
  • Trained a CNN to improve image quality from thermal cameras through blind deconvolution for image super-resolution.

Languages

English
Advanced

Education

Sep 2017 - Jun 2019

University of Toronto

Master of Applied Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering · Electrical and Computer Engineering · Toronto, Canada · CGPA: 3.91/4.00

Aug 2015 - May 2016

National University of Singapore

Exchange Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering · Electrical and Computer Engineering · Singapore

Sep 2013 - Jun 2017

Bilkent University

Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, focus on signal processing and machine learning · Electrical and Electronics Engineering · Ankara, Turkey · CGPA: 3.88/4.00

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