AI Engineer — Agentic Systems & Automation

Orhun Utku Topal

I design autonomous AI agents, multi-agent systems and intelligent automation — and research how they can coordinate and self-govern without a central authority.

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Open to AI / ML roles Istanbul, Türkiye B.Sc. Computer Engineering · 2026
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About

I'm a final-year Computer Engineering student — 100% English-taught, MÜDEK-accredited — and an AI engineer focused on agentic systems: autonomous AI agents, multi-agent architectures and intelligent automation.

My work spans hands-on R&D in the defense and AI industries, an active freelance practice delivering AI consulting and custom software, and applied research into how autonomous agents establish identity and govern themselves through swarm-intelligence principles.

I've led a university team to a Teknofest national championship, held leadership roles across the IEEE IKU Computer Society, and currently serve as Marmara Region Coordinator for IEEE Türkiye's Computer Society.

Orhun Utku Topal
Client projects delivered
Teknofest UAV Competition
National competition finals
Graduating · Comp. Engineering

Experience

Oct 2025 — PresentRemote
Freelance Software Developer & AI Engineer
Self-Employed
Delivering AI consulting and custom software to clients including Rainbow Lens, West Group, Yalın Danışmanlık, Uzman Bıçak and Zirve Shop Market — from e-commerce platforms and large-scale web scraping to business-automation systems.
AI ConsultingFull-StackAutomationWeb Scraping
Aug 2025 — Feb 2026England, UK · Hybrid
AI Agent Developer & Researcher
TheNextMinds · Internship
Designed and developed autonomous AI agents and multi-agent systems — LLM-powered agent architectures, RAG pipelines, agent orchestration and tool-use frameworks — within an R&D-focused international team. Work culminated in a research thesis.
Agentic AILLMRAGResearch
Jun — Jul 2025Istanbul
Project Management Intern
SCA Social Ltd. · a subsidiary of TNC Group
Contributed to budget planning, scheduling, legal compliance and operational processes, strengthening team coordination through Agile methodologies.
AgileProject TrackingOperations
Jul — Sep 2024Defense Industry
Artificial Intelligence Intern
Baykar · Long-Term Internship
Contributed to AI research and development projects within the defense industry, working in high-pressure, disciplined environments and building expertise in crisis and problem management.
AI R&DMachine Learning

Selected Work

Flagship Project

Teknofest Fighter UAV

A national-championship fixed-wing combat UAV built with a university team across three Teknofest competition cycles. I led design and analysis, managed 3D design and team coordination, and joined the AI R&D team developing autonomous pathfinding algorithms.

1st Place · 2023 Finalist · 2024
Fighter UAV Teknofest UAV competition team

Smart Retail Platform

An autonomous retail-intelligence concept for LC Waikiki — computer vision (YOLOv8), RFID and edge AI — delivered as full technical documentation, an interactive demo and an R&D proposal.

YOLOv8Edge AIRFID

News Sentiment & Summarization

An LLM-based NLP pipeline that analyzes sentiment and produces automated summaries from news content, built within a larger AI project.

NLPLLMPython

Computer-Vision Factory Automation

A university project automating a 6-axis robotic arm with computer vision for industrial part detection and handling.

Computer VisionRobotics

E-Commerce & Automation Suite

Production e-commerce platforms (WordPress, Firebase, Netlify) with AI chatbots and virtual try-on, plus live-stream commerce bots with thermal-printer integration.

FastAPIFirebaseWordPress

Anti-Detection Scraping Systems

Large-scale marketplace data-extraction pipelines with proxy rotation, GitHub Actions scheduling and Telegram-based change notifications.

SeleniumScrapyGitHub Actions

Autonomous Pathfinding (UAV)

Autonomous pathfinding algorithms for the Teknofest Fighter UAV's AI R&D track, enabling self-guided flight planning.

AlgorithmsAutonomy

Research

Research ThesisConducted with TheNextMinds
In preparation for publication · 2026

Decentralized Digital Identity & Swarm-Based Governance for Autonomous AI Agents

A thesis examining trustless coordination, identity and decentralized governance for multi-agent AI systems that operate without a central authority.

It explores how autonomous agents can establish verifiable digital identities and self-govern through swarm-intelligence principles — a foundation for agentic systems that scale beyond centralized control.

Recognition

Highlights
Teknofest medal and trophy
Fighter UAV
Teknofest UAV competition team
Presenting at a technology forum
Achievement certificates
Project Management internship certificate

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Toolkit

AI / Machine Learning
LLM Fine-TuningMulti-Agent Systems RAGPrompt Engineering NLPTensorFlowPyTorch
Languages
PythonCC++ JavaScriptMATLAB
Web & Backend
FastAPIFlaskFull-Stack WordPressFirebaseNetlifyREST APIs
Automation & Tooling
SeleniumBeautifulSoupScrapy GitHub ActionsGitJiraFigma

Let's build something intelligent.

Open to AI / ML engineering roles and selective freelance work. The fastest way to reach me is email.

utkutopaltopal@gmail.com
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