AI & software engineer, forty years in.

Mobile development lead and co-founder of sysHuman Technologies. Formerly principal developer at Intel on the Vaunt smart glasses. Four decades bridging scientific computing, signal processing and production AI, from Istanbul Technical University research to LLM- and computer-vision-powered products shipping in Canada today.

Currently
sysHuman Technologies, Vancouver
Formerly
Intel Corporation, principal developer, Vaunt smart glasses
Based in
North Vancouver, British Columbia
Résumé
Kadir_Erturk.pdf
Elsewhere
LinkedIn · YouTube

Professional profile

Software engineer with decades of hands-on delivery: architecting, shipping and leading production systems across AI, mobile, backend and embedded. Co-founder and Technical Director of sysHuman Technologies Inc. (Vancouver), shipping LLM and computer-vision powered iOS, Android and web products end to end: model serving on GPU, REST/PHP backends, native mobile clients, StoreKit 2 and Google Play Billing.

Mobile team lead at 4Refuel: enterprise Android (MVVM, RxJava2, Retrofit, Room) with a proprietary BLE/LCR protocol to IoT fuel-dispensing hardware.

At Intel Corporation, principal developer on Vaunt, Intel's publicly announced smart-glasses project (The Verge, February 2018): Android, BLE GATT communication with the glasses, and real-time multi-device sensor fusion.

Earlier, backend AI developer at Prizm Media, where an SVM activity-recognition model went into production. Granted patent in AI-based sensing.

Patent
Method and Apparatus for Detecting Color: ML-based real-time colour classification via light-sensor hardware. Granted.
Education
Ph.D. coursework and M.Sc. in Geophysical Engineering, İTÜ. B.Sc. in Geophysical Engineering, Yıldız University. iOS development, BCIT (Vancouver).

Current work

sysHuman Technologies Inc.

2023 – present
Co-founder & Technical Director · Vancouver

Vancouver-based AI company delivering LLM and computer-vision products across iOS, Android and web. Resolved multiple App Store review rounds; implemented StoreKit 2 (iOS) and Google Play Billing (Android). Built an automated AI content pipeline on Ubuntu 24.04 (Claude Code and cron) publishing to Instagram and TikTok.

4Refuel

2019 – 2026
Senior Software Engineer, Mobile Team Lead · Surrey, BC

Led the mobile engineering team behind the enterprise Android app for fleet fuel management across Canada. MVVM, RxJava2, Retrofit, Room. Designed the proprietary LCR/LCP hardware protocol with CRC16 verification, and the real-time BLE bridge between Android devices and IoT fuel-dispensing hardware in the field. Architecture, code review and mentorship for junior developers.

Projects and research

  • sysMirror

    Production LLM and computer-vision platform: 4-in-1 beauty analysis (skin, hair, makeup, outfit). Live on iOS, Android and web. Token-based IAP. Studio section with SDXL inpainting and IP-Adapter FaceID on an RTX GPU.

    LLM · computer vision · StoreKit 2 · Google Play Billing
  • Intel Vaunt smart glasses

    Principal developer (Android and BLE) at Intel Corporation on Vaunt, Intel's publicly announced smart-glasses project (The Verge, February 2018) and one of its most high-profile consumer hardware R&D efforts. BLE GATT communication with the glasses, MVP architecture with Dagger and EventBus for real-time multi-device sensor fusion, and the gesture and sensor-interaction layers of the wearable.

    Android · BLE GATT · MVP · Dagger
  • AI Salon

    B2B AI skin-analysis SaaS for beauty salons. Professional PDF reports, multi-branch management, pay-per-token model, Groq and Ollama backends, multilingual (Turkish/English).

    PHP · MySQL · Groq · Ollama
  • Quake: AI earthquake prediction

    Research platform applying machine-learning models to seismic signal data, drawing directly on my geophysics background at İTÜ.

    ML · seismic signal processing
  • Image API

    Self-hosted beauty-transformation API: SDXL inpainting, BiSeNet segmentation, BeautyGAN and IP-Adapter FaceID, running on an RTX 4070 Ti server.

    SDXL · BiSeNet · BeautyGAN · CUDA
  • Apoptosis: AI documentary

    Full AI-generated Turkish-language science documentary in production using Veo 3 generative video. Scripted and narrated by me.

    Veo 3 · generative video · Turkish narration
  • Hair colour detection widget

    Granted patent, “Method and Apparatus for Detecting Color”: ML-based real-time colour classification using custom light-sensor hardware.

    patent · embedded ML · light sensor
  • Fourier Transform Android app

    Real-time FFT audio signal visualisation. 3,000+ downloads on Google Play.

    FFT · real-time DSP · Android
  • ChatterPro: UBC Mechatronics

    R&D project with the UBC Mechatronics Division: real-time vibration and chatter detection using signal processing.

    signal processing · vibration analysis

Science and AI on YouTube

youtube.com/@KadirErturk: over seven years of deep, mathematically grounded AI and science education in Turkish (and some English). Topics go well beyond introductory material.

Deep learning
Transformer architecture and self-attention (full mathematical build-up), query/key/values, backpropagation from scratch, neural network fundamentals, feature vectors, embedding layers.
Mathematics for ML
Matrices, eigenvectors and eigenvalues, differential (difference) equations, differential calculus foundations.
Applied ML
LSTM stock-price prediction (7K views), Q-learning with example (2.5K), AI-based FX prediction (4.3K), “Creating life with AI” series.
Science
Apoptosis: why your cells commit suicide; Architects of Death; writing code on DNA; sensor hardware demos.

Career timeline

  1. 2023 – present

    Co-founder & Technical Director, sysHuman Technologies Inc.

    Vancouver, Canada. AI products across iOS, Android and web.

  2. 2019 – 2026

    Senior Software Engineer, Mobile Team Lead, 4Refuel

    Surrey, BC. Led enterprise Android app and BLE/IoT hardware integration for fleet fuel management.

  3. 2018 – 2019

    Mobile & Web Application Developer, FreeEstimation.com

    Vancouver. Full stack: web, Android, iOS, REST APIs.

  4. 2016 – 2018

    Principal Developer, AI/ML & Wearables, Intel Corporation

    Vancouver. Intel Vaunt smart glasses, Android and BLE. Internal ML presentations on activity recognition and SVM-based signal classification.

  5. 2011 – 2016

    Senior Software / Backend AI Developer, Prizm Media Inc.

    Vancouver. Trained SVM for real-time human activity recognition (deployed in KudoLife). Neural networks for user-behaviour classification.

  6. 2010 – 2014

    iOS / Android / Database Developer, Golaks.ca

    North Vancouver. Published TraceMe (App Store and Android Market), Fourier Transform, ChatterPro (UBC collaboration).

  7. 1994 – 2009

    Founder, Golaks Software

    Istanbul. Production automation software for the Turkish leather industry; became the industry standard with 120+ worldwide customers.

  8. 1992 – 1994

    Computer Programmer, Exim Ltd

    Istanbul. ANSI C/C++ barcode applications for handheld computers: Coca-Cola, Philips, Levi's.

  9. 1989 – 1992

    Research & Teaching Assistant, Istanbul Technical University

    Engineering faculty. Scientific software in Fortran and C/C++; peer-reviewed publications.

  10. 1986

    First program

    Started programming in 1986. Through university, scientific programming in C/C++.

Teaching areas

Applied AI & machine learning
Hands-on, step by step: from data to deployed model. Practical how-to focus.
Deep learning & transformers
Mathematical foundations: attention, self-attention, positional encoding, encoder–decoder. Rigorous theoretical depth.
Software engineering & OOP
Java-centric software engineering and object-oriented design.
Mobile application development
iOS and Android, native and cross-platform. From architecture to App Store / Play deployment.
Embedded systems & IoT
ESP32, BLE, light sensors, RF circuit design (ADF4351, NanoVNA V2).
Signal processing & scientific computing
Fourier/Laplace/Z transforms, 2D/3D image processing, real-time DSP.

Technical skills

AI / LLM
Large language models, Groq API, Claude API (Anthropic), Ollama, LangChain, prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, LLMOps.
Machine learning
Neural networks, SVM, LSTM, deep learning, transformer architecture, activity recognition, computer vision, FaceID.
GPU / inference
NVIDIA CUDA, RTX 3060 / 4070 Ti, GPU-accelerated inference, Ubuntu 22/24 server administration.
Mobile
Android: MVVM, RxJava2, Retrofit, Room, BLE/GATT, StoreKit 2, Google Play Billing. iOS: Swift, Objective-C, Xcode.
Backend & web
Java, Python, PHP, REST API design, SmartGWT, Yii, Node.js, Apache. HTML/CSS/JS, jQuery, AJAX, React (Tailwind).
Databases
MySQL, SQLite, Room, Firebird, Interbase, PostgreSQL. DDL/DML, stored procedures, triggers, replication.
Embedded / IoT
ESP32, BLE (GATT), RF circuit design (ADF4351, NanoVNA V2), light sensors, barcode (ANSI C), Fortran, C/C++.
Signal processing & DevOps
Fourier/Laplace/Z transforms, 2D/3D image processing. Linux (Ubuntu), Git, Docker, Claude Code, cron, Android Studio, Xcode.

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