Ahmet A. Akın
Software Engineer
Turkey
Summary
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RockstarAhmet A. Akın is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience based in Turkey, combining backend development and applied NLP expertise. He has contributed notably to Turkish-language NLP tooling—improving named entity recognition, feature extraction, and model training in the zemberek-nlp project—demonstrating both algorithmic depth and pragmatic code refactoring. Comfortable shipping production-grade backend systems, he balances engineering craftsmanship with maintainability and performance. A consistent open-source contributor and father of two, he brings steady collaboration habits and long-term project ownership to teams. Practical, detail-oriented, and fluent in domain-specific language processing, he’s well-suited for roles that bridge natural language research and backend engineering.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
named-entity-extraction10
nlp10
named-entity-recognition10
entity-extraction10
python10
natural-language-processing10
perceptron9
javas8
java8
machine-learning7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ahmetaa/zemberek-nlp
Jun 2013 - Mar 2021
NLP tools for Turkish.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & NLP Engineer
Back-end Developer & NLP EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 1196 commits, 30 PRs in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ahmet primarily worked on implementing and improving the named entity recognition (NER) capabilities of the Turkish NLP tools. They made significant code changes to the PerceptronNer class, including improvements to the feature extraction and model training processes. Their contributions also involved adding features and functionality to the analysis process, as well as refactoring the code for better organization and maintainability.
natural-language-processingmorphologynlpzemberek-nlp
ahmetaa/turkish-nlp-examples
Dec 2013 - Apr 2019
Turkish NLP examples to demonstrate Zemberek-nlp and other related libraries.
Contributions:26 commits, 19 pushes, 3 comments in 5 years 4 months
natural-language-processing
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