Pelin Balcı
Sr. Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Beko Corporate
Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolPelin Balcı is a Sr. Lead Machine Learning Engineer based in Istanbul with eight years of experience applying NLP, Large Language Models, TinyML and reinforcement learning to real-world products at Arçelik/Beko. She holds an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University and combines academic rigor with hands-on Python engineering, active LeetCode practice, and ongoing upskilling through online ML courses. Pelin leads cross-functional efforts such as data labeling for NER and intent classification and contributes to the Turkish data science community through open-source code, blog posts, and volunteering with earthquake relief initiatives. Her profile reflects a practitioner-researcher mindset: she moves models into production while staying curious about compact ML (TinyML) and scalable language-model applications.
8 years of coding experience
Sabanci UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Master of Science (M.S.) at Bilkent UniversityBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Gazi University
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Github Skills (13)
thai2
phonetics2
crossword2
python1
word-segmentation1
nlp1
orange1
wordnet1
computational-linguistics1
turkish1
natural-language-processing1
sentence-similarity1
arabic-nlp1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pelinbalci/pelinbalci.github.io
Jul 2020 - Feb 2023
Contributions:297 commits, 363 pushes in 2 years 7 months
pelinbalci/Lecture-Notes-
Jan 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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