AI Solutions Architect & Technical Lead

Egemen Gulpinar

Bielefeld, Germany

M.Sc. Intelligent Interactive Systems @ Bielefeld University

Where it all began ~2003

About Me

I am an AI Solutions Architect with over 5 years of experience in project design, management, and delivery of innovative solutions. My expertise spans leading AI-driven initiatives, designing scalable systems, and automating complex processes to drive efficiency and business value.

Throughout my career, I've contributed significantly to startup success by assuming multifaceted roles—from hands-on development to leadership and strategic planning. I've set up AI/ML pipelines, implemented cloud architectures, and delivered cutting-edge applications across desktop, cloud, and web platforms.

What sets me apart is my ability to turn complex ideas into actionable solutions while thinking creatively. I blend technical expertise with fresh perspectives to craft unique and impactful products. My philosophy is simple: embrace innovation, challenge the ordinary, and always aim to "be different."

Technical Expertise

Languages

PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptSQLMATLABC/C++C#

AI, Agents & LLMs

LangGraphLangChainLangSmithLlamaIndexClaude Agent SDKMCP (Model Context Protocol)Function CallingMulti-Agent OrchestrationAgentic RAGFine-tuning LLMs/SLMs/VLMsOllamavLLMWhisper

Computer Vision & ML

SAMWAM (Watermark Anything Model)YOLOSentence TransformersPyTorchTensorFlowOpenCVNVIDIA CUDA (cuDNN, cuBLAS)Parallel ComputingXAI (SHAP, LIME)W&B

Backend & Frameworks

FastAPIDjangoFlaskNode.jsReactSvelteKitStreamlitGradioQt

Data & Infrastructure

PostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisVectorDB (Qdrant, Chroma, FAISS)DockerKubernetesCoolifyAWSAzureAzure AI ServicesGCPFirebaseJenkinsGrafanaSeleniumScrapyLinuxGit

Methodologies

AgileScrumOOPMVCTDD

Certifications

AZ-104T00: Microsoft Azure Administrator
AI-102T00: Designing and Implementing Azure AI Solutions
NVIDIA Inception Program - Deep Learning Institute
Meta Back-End Developer Professional Certificate (Coursera)
Use Python Unit Test to Demonstrate TDD (Coursera)
Inzva Applied AI Study Group
BTK Academy - Introduction to Deep Learning with Keras
BAYKAR Technologies - AI Competition in Transport Certificate

Experience

5+ years building solutions across AI, backend systems, and research

AI Solutions Architect

LIVAD Technologies Shareholder

Sep 2021 - Present

Los Angeles, CA (Remote)

Contributed significantly to startup success by assuming multifaceted roles with strong focus on leadership, management expertise, and ongoing professional development.

Agentic Content Workflow: Designed and built an agentic blog-post generation workflow that autonomously navigates hundreds of videos, identifies the most relevant moments, and assembles them into ready-to-publish clips with accompanying articles.
Streamer Detection (VLMs): Developed a streamer face detection and localization system using VLMs and project-specific configured models, with an additional real-vs-fake person classification stage.
LLM/SLM/VLM Fine-tuning: Customized and fine-tuned LLMs, SLMs and VLMs (Phi, Gemma, Qwen, GPT, LLaMA families) for project-specific tasks. Built an efficient custom LLM pipeline for context recognition.
Brand Safety System: Created text-based brand safety detection including STT, sentiment analysis, context translation, and a fine-tuned SLM that understands safety rules and generates output scores.
Computer Vision: Built a multi-purpose unique asset-obstacle recognition and segmentation system using Segment Anything, feature extraction, and custom algorithms.
Infrastructure & DevOps: Achieved significant cost reductions in AWS, Azure and GCP through strategic automation. Deployed and maintained solutions on microservices with CI/CD pipelines.
Engineering Practices: Wrote clean code, unit and integration tests, and crafted comprehensive project documentation.
Awards: Led LIVAD Studio to win IAB MIXX Awards '23 Gold and Brandverse Awards '23 Silver for In-Game Ads.

Project Technical Lead

Bielefeld University - Türkisch-Deutsche Universität(TDU Istanbul)

Dec 2025 - Nov 2026

Bielefeld, Germany

Leading and developing a large-scale, AI-driven Universität Bielefeld, Türkisch-Deutsche Universität(TDU Istanbul) DaF-Chatbot system used by thousands of students
Designing scalable, cost-efficient, and low-latency real-time inference architecture and pipeline for the chatbot
Optimizing system architecture and model deployment for production environments

Student Assistant - AI Research

Bielefeld University

Jan 2025 - Sep 2025

Bielefeld, Germany

Full-stack development of dialogue-based Explainable AI (XAI) system
Built chunk-wise streaming support for LLMs to deliver low-latency, real-time outputs
Enhanced dialogue system with real-time voice recognition (STT/TTS) and context-aware LLM functionalities

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