Batu Akdogan
AI Engineer & Full-Stack Developer
I design and ship production-grade AI systems and digital products — from multimodal ML pipelines to full-stack platforms. Founder of Orchestria and Apple Swift Student Challenge 2024 winner.
01 — Career
Work Experience
Founder & Lead AI Engineer
orchestria.tech- Built and launched an AI music production platform that ranked #8 Product of the Day on Product Hunt among 600+ launches, attracting 100+ registered users shortly after release.
- Engineered a proprietary Audio-to-MIDI transcription pipeline that converted AI-generated audio into editable MIDI, enabling reliable and controllable music production workflows.
Software Developer - Part-Time
- Developed the internal campaign management dashboard for a taxi-top LED digital advertising network, enabling operators to schedule campaigns, monitor device status, and manage ad distribution across a city-wide display infrastructure.
Software Developer - Part-Time
- Engineered and deployed production-ready web and mobile applications for leading Turkish enterprises using React, Next.js, and React Native.
- Contributed to C# .NET microservices to ensure scalable and reliable digital solutions for high-volume corporate environments.
Backend Developer - Part Time
- Engineered high-performance RESTful APIs and microservices using Java and Spring Boot.
- Optimized database query execution and implemented comprehensive unit testing to ensure production-grade reliability for simulated high-concurrency workloads.
02 — Work
Selected Projects
Vision-Language AI on COCO 2017
Need for a unified multimodal system capable of real-time object detection and zero-shot inference.
Benchmarked a scalable PyTorch pipeline integrating YOLOv8 and Transformer models (OWL-ViT v2, BLIP, CLIP).
Achieved robust cross-modal representation learning and dynamic image captioning on the 118K image COCO dataset.
- Python
- PyTorch
- Hugging Face
Fragmented legacy systems made corporate employee management and data synchronization inefficient.
Built a robust, API-first platform by decoupling the architecture into a Java Spring Boot backend and a React frontend.
Delivered a secure, scalable internal tool to manage seamless employee lifecycles and administrative tasks.
- Java
- React
- Spring Boot
Lack of an accessible, engaging tool for non-experts to track their environmental impact and carbon footprint.
Engineered a native iOS ecosystem using SwiftUI and Firebase with an MVVM architecture, offering personalized emission tracking and educational content.
Won the Apple Swift Student Challenge 2024 and achieved the #1 ranking in the Lifestyle category on the USA App Store.
- SwiftUI
- Firebase
- MVVM Architecture
Apple Swift Student Challenge 2024 Winner
Selected among top 350 from 20,000+ global applicants in Apple's prestigious competition recognizing the most innovative apps. Recognized as one of the youngest winners.
03 — Toolkit