Mehmet Bakir
Research Associate In Large Scale Real-time Text Processing
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMehmet Bakir is a research-focused software engineer and data scientist with 11 years’ experience building large-scale, real-time text processing and social media analysis systems at The University of Sheffield. He combines deep academic training (PhD in Computer Science) with hands-on engineering—designing ML and deep learning pipelines, network analysis, and production-ready data wrangling for platforms like Twitter and Reddit. Past consultancy and industry roles show he moves fluidly from client-facing problem framing to delivering classifiers, regressors and analytics products under tight timelines. Early career work on large Java infrastructures and hospital management systems gives him practical systems and ops grounding alongside research rigour. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex NLP research into robust, deployable software that supports real-time decision-making.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering at University of CankayaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at The University of SheffieldMaster of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering, Distinction, Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering, Distinction at University of York
Turkish, Kurdish, English, Arabic
Github Skills (26)
twitter10
react8
synthetic8
text-recognition6
sna5
redis-database5
scene-text5
ocr-recognition5
web-application4
synthetic-data4
nodejs4
ocr4
natural-language-processing4
nlp4
mongodb4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
meminbakir/smcp
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
meminbakir/SMCPredictor
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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