Kadir Ertürk

AI & Software Engineer  •  Mobile Development Lead  •  Co-founder of sysHuman

30+ years bridging scientific computing, signal processing, and production AI — from Istanbul Technical University research to LLM- and computer-vision-powered products shipping in Canada today.

Professional Profile

Software engineer with 30+ years of hands-on delivery — architecting, shipping, and leading production systems across AI, mobile, backend, and embedded. Co-founder and Technical Director of sysHuman Technologies Inc. (Vancouver), shipping LLM and computer-vision powered iOS, Android, and web products end-to-end: model serving on GPU, REST/PHP backends, native mobile clients, StoreKit 2 and Google Play Billing. Mobile team lead at 4Refuel — enterprise Android (MVVM, RxJava2, Retrofit, Room) with a proprietary BLE/LCR protocol to IoT fuel-dispensing hardware. Formerly Android developer on Intel's Vaunt smart glasses and backend AI developer at Prizm Media (SVM activity recognition in production). Granted patent in AI-based sensing.

Patent

Method and Apparatus for Detecting Color — ML-based real-time color classification via light sensor hardware. Granted.

Education

Ph.D. coursework & M.Sc. — Geophysical Engineering, İTÜ (Istanbul). B.Sc. — Yıldız University (Istanbul). iOS Development — BCIT (Vancouver).

Based In

North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Current Work

sysHuman Technologies Inc. — Co-founder & Technical Director (2023 – Present)

Vancouver-based multinational AI company delivering LLM + computer-vision products across iOS, Android, and web. Led founding team across Canada and Turkey on product, mobile, and operations. Resolved multiple App Store review rounds; implemented StoreKit 2 (iOS) and Google Play Billing (Android). Built an automated AI content pipeline on Ubuntu 24.04 (Claude Code + cron) publishing to Instagram and TikTok.

4Refuel — Senior Software Engineer, Mobile Team Lead (2019 – 2026)

Leading the mobile engineering team behind the enterprise Android app for fleet fuel management across Canada. MVVM, RxJava2, Retrofit, Room. Designed the proprietary LCR/LCP hardware protocol with CRC16 verification, and the real-time BLE bridge between Android devices and IoT fuel-dispensing hardware in the field. Architecture, code review, and mentorship for junior developers.

Projects & Research

sysMirror

Production LLM + computer-vision platform — 4-in-1 beauty analysis (skin, hair, makeup, outfit). Live on iOS, Android, and web. Token-based IAP. Studio section with SDXL inpainting + IP-Adapter FaceID on RTX GPU.

LLM · Computer Vision · StoreKit 2 · Google Play Billing

mirror.syshuman.com
AI Salon

B2B AI skin-analysis SaaS for beauty salons. Professional PDF reports, multi-branch management, pay-per-token model, Groq and Ollama backends, multilingual (Turkish/English).

PHP · MySQL · Groq · Ollama

salon.syshuman.com
Quake — AI Earthquake Prediction

Research platform applying machine-learning models to seismic signal data — drawing directly on my geophysics background at İTÜ.

ML · Seismic Signal Processing

quake.syshuman.com
Image API

Self-hosted beauty-transformation API: SDXL Inpainting + BiSeNet segmentation + BeautyGAN + IP-Adapter FaceID, running on an RTX 4070Ti server.

SDXL · BiSeNet · BeautyGAN · CUDA

image.syshuman.com
Apoptosis — AI Documentary

Full AI-generated Turkish-language science documentary in production using Veo 3 generative video — scripted and narrated by Kadir.

Veo 3 · Generative Video · Turkish Narration

YouTube Channel
Hair Color Detection Widget

Granted patent — "Method and Apparatus for Detecting Color." ML-based real-time color classification using custom light-sensor hardware.

Patent · Embedded ML · Light Sensor

Intel Vaunt

Android + BLE developer on Intel's publicly announced smart-glasses project (The Verge, Feb 2018). Gesture and sensor-interaction layers for wearable AR hardware.

Android · BLE GATT · MVP · Dagger

Fourier Transform Android App

Real-time FFT audio signal visualisation. 3,000+ downloads on Google Play.

FFT · Real-Time DSP · Android

ChatterPro — UBC Mechatronics

R&D project with UBC Mechatronics Division — real-time vibration/chatter detection using signal processing.

Signal Processing · Vibration Analysis

Science & AI on YouTube

youtube.com/@KadirErturk — 7+ years of deep, mathematically-grounded AI and science education in Turkish (and some English). Topics go well beyond introductory material.

Deep Learning

Transformer architecture & self-attention (full mathematical build-up), query/key/values, backpropagation from scratch, neural network fundamentals, feature vectors, embedding layers.

Mathematics for ML

Matrices, eigen vectors & eigen values, differential (difference) equations, differential calculus foundations.

Applied ML

LSTM stock-price prediction (7K views), Q-Learning with example (2.5K), AI-based FX prediction (4.3K), "Creating life with AI" series.

Science

Apoptosis — why your cells commit suicide, Architects of Death, writing code on DNA, sensor hardware demos.

Career Timeline

2023 – Present
Co-founder & Technical Director — sysHuman Technologies Inc.

Vancouver, Canada. AI products across iOS, Android, and web.

2019 – 2026
Senior Software Engineer, Mobile Team Lead — 4Refuel

Surrey, BC. Led enterprise Android app + BLE/IoT hardware integration for fleet fuel management.

2018 – 2019
Mobile & Web Application Developer — FreeEstimation.com

Vancouver. Full-stack — web, Android, iOS, REST APIs.

2016 – 2018
Android Developer, AI/ML & Wearables — Intel Corporation

Vancouver. Intel Vaunt smart glasses — Android + BLE. Internal ML presentations on activity recognition and SVM-based signal classification.

2011 – 2016
Senior Software / Backend AI Developer — Prizm Media Inc.

Vancouver. Trained SVM for real-time human activity recognition (deployed in KudoLife). Neural networks for user behaviour classification.

2010 – 2014
iOS / Android / Database Developer — Golaks.ca

North Vancouver. Published TraceMe (App Store + Android Market), Fourier Transform, ChatterPro (UBC collaboration).

1994 – 2009
Founder — Golaks Software

Istanbul. Production automation software for Turkish leather industry — became industry standard with 120+ worldwide customers.

1992 – 1994
Computer Programmer — Exim Ltd

Istanbul. ANSI C/C++ barcode applications for handheld computers — Coca-Cola, Philips, Levi's.

1989 – 1992
Research & Teaching Assistant — Istanbul Technical University

Engineering faculty. Scientific software in Fortran and C/C++; peer-reviewed publications.

Teaching Areas

Applied AI & Machine Learning

Hands-on, step-by-step: from data to deployed model. Practical how-to focus.

Deep Learning & Transformers

Mathematical foundations — attention, self-attention, positional encoding, encoder-decoder. Rigorous theoretical depth.

Software Engineering & OOP

Java-centric software engineering and object-oriented design.

Mobile Application Development

iOS and Android — native and cross-platform. From architecture to App Store / Play deployment.

Embedded Systems & IoT

ESP32, BLE, light sensors, RF circuit design (ADF4351, NanoVNA V2).

Signal Processing & Scientific Computing

Fourier/Laplace/Z transforms, 2D/3D image processing, real-time DSP.

Technical Skills

AI / LLM

Large Language Models, Groq API, Claude API (Anthropic), Ollama, LangChain, Prompt Engineering, RAG pipelines, LLMOps.

Machine Learning

Neural Networks, SVM, LSTM, deep learning, Transformer architecture, activity recognition, computer vision, FaceID.

GPU / Inference

NVIDIA CUDA, RTX 3060 / 4070Ti, GPU-accelerated inference, Ubuntu 22/24 server administration.

Mobile

Android — MVVM, RxJava2, Retrofit, Room, BLE/GATT, StoreKit 2, Google Play Billing. iOS — Swift, Objective-C, Xcode.

Backend & Web

Java, Python, PHP, REST API design, SmartGWT, Yii, Node.js, Apache. HTML/CSS/JS, jQuery, AJAX, React (Tailwind).

Databases

MySQL, SQLite, Room, Firebird, Interbase, PostgreSQL. DDL/DML, stored procedures, triggers, replication.

Embedded / IoT

ESP32, BLE (GATT), RF circuit design (ADF4351, NanoVNA V2), light sensors, barcode (ANSI C), Fortran, C/C++.

Signal Processing & DevOps

Fourier/Laplace/Z transforms, 2D/3D image processing. Linux (Ubuntu), Git, Docker, Claude Code, cron, Android Studio, Xcode.

Contact

North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

kadirerturk@gmail.com  ·  +1 (604) 347-8782