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Recep Ciftci

Building intelligent systems and scalable architectures. millions of users globally with high-impact digital products.

Istanbul, Turkey
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Career Journey

Work Experience

My professional background focused on AI and scalable architectures

Team Lead — AI/ML & Backend

SiriusAI Tech

Hybrid
May 2025 – PresentIstanbul

Architected and developed BossAI — an enterprise AI assistant.

  • Engineered a multi-stage RAG pipeline with custom fine-tuned LLM, cross-encoder reranker, and multi-LLM fallbacks (OpenAI, Anthropic)
  • Designed agentic workflows with tool-calling agents, multi-step reasoning, self-correction, and audit trail generation
  • Built complete vector retrieval stack using Qdrant with semantic chunking strategies
  • Owned full lifecycle: LLM backend (FastAPI), frontend (React), and distributed cloud deployment
PythonFastAPIRAGLLM Fine-tuningQdrantTypeScriptReact

Fullstack Developer

Fiyuu

Hybrid
Aug 2024 – Aug 2025Istanbul

Led the algorithm team building real-time courier routing and bonus engines serving hundreds of thousands of users.

  • Introduced DDD microservices patterns that accelerated team onboarding and significantly reduced system errors
  • Migrated critical data pipelines to DynamoDB and ElasticSearch, enabling real-time analytics dashboards for operations
  • Measurably improved query performance for high-throughput event-driven systems
NestJSKafkaRedisDynamoDB+2

Fullstack Developer

Teleperformance

Remote
May 2022 – May 2024Global

Developed C#/.NET microservices APIs consumed by millions of users globally.

  • Leveraged RabbitMQ and Redis for high-throughput event-driven processing with strict SLA compliance
  • Built payroll and bonus platforms for tens of thousands of employees, automating complex manual workflows
  • Integrated multiple third-party financial services securely for large-scale operations
C#.NET CoreRabbitMQRedis+2

Lead Fullstack Developer

BFZ – PrepTest

Remote
Mar 2022 – PresentRemote

Delivered next-generation frontend and backend APIs for an EdTech platform.

  • Leveraged LLM-assisted development (Codex, Claude) to significantly accelerate delivery cycles
  • Established full test coverage culture with Cypress (E2E), Jest, and RTL
  • Integrated Storybook for component-driven design system documentation across engineering teams
  • Deployed to AWS using Terraform with CDN distribution and scalable compute (ECS, RDS)
Next.jsReactTypeScriptNode.js+3
Tech Arsenal

Skills & Expertise

Tools I use to solve complex problems and build innovative products

AI / ML & Agentic

Intelligent systems

RAG PipelinesLLM Fine-tuningAgentic WorkflowsVector DBs (Qdrant)RerankersPrompt Engineering

Backend & Architecture

Scalable foundations

NestJSFastAPINode.jsC# / .NETMicroservicesKafka / RabbitMQ

Frontend & DX

Seamless experiences

ReactNext.jsTypeScriptTailwind / ShadcnLLM-Assisted DevState Management

Infra & Testing

Reliable delivery

AWSTerraformDockerCypress / JestCI/CDRedis / DynamoDB

Achievements

Huawei Developer Competition

Top 4 Finalist

Teknofest Edtech

Finalist

Languages

🇹🇷Turkish
Native
🇬🇧English
Professional
🇯🇵Japanese
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