Umut ABALI

RESUME

Engineer · Istanbul

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Education

B.Sc. Computer Engineering (GPA: 3.20)

Istanbul Medeniyet University · Istanbul, Turkey

2022 — 2026

Experience

Software Developer

Rems Logistic · Istanbul, Turkey

Jul 2026 — Present

  • Maintain and extend the company's production logistics platform, shipping features and bug fixes driven by daily warehouse and field operations.
  • Build and release iOS and Android apps with React Native, keeping feature parity with the core platform for warehouse and field teams.
  • Developed an XGBoost price-prediction model trained on 12 months (35K records) of shipment data to support faster, data-driven pricing decisions.
  • Automated document processing with an AI-based extraction workflow, reducing manual data entry by 75%.
  • Work directly with logistics teams to translate business requirements into shipped platform and mobile features.

Data Engineering Intern

Mapin Data · Istanbul, Turkey

Jan 2026 — Mar 2026

  • Built an end-to-end extraction pipeline in Python that turns unstructured web pages, PDFs, and QR codes into structured data, using FireCrawl for crawling, OpenCV for image preprocessing and QR decoding, and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for document understanding.
  • Reduced LLM token costs by 70% by designing custom text-chunking algorithms and optimizing model routing on OpenRouter, while maintaining ~80% extraction accuracy.
  • Mapped parsed output into a production-ready JSON schema with the core team, making it directly usable for downstream AI tasks.

Software Engineer Intern

Menatek Technologies · Istanbul, Turkey

Mar 2025 — May 2025

  • Built a full-stack inventory management system from scratch with PHP and MySQL, centralizing asset tracking for 45 employees across 6 departments.
  • Designed a normalized relational schema with foreign-key constraints and indexes on frequently queried columns, keeping asset lookups fast as records grew to 500+.
  • Implemented session-based authentication with hashed passwords and role-based access control (RBAC), restricting sensitive actions such as asset deletion and transfers to authorized roles.

Technical Skills

Programming Languages
PythonC/C++Bash/Shell
AI & ML
PyTorchOpenCVLangChainvLLMllama.cppRAGAgentic SystemsVector DB (Qdrant)MCP
Cloud & Backend
AWSDockerFastAPILinux
Languages
TurkishEnglish