5+ years of professional experience in building scalable and efficient software systems. I combine a solid academic foundation with over half a decade of industry expertise.
- 🚀 Expertise: Software Architecture & System Design.
- 🤖 Backend Engineer building AI/ML systems — from LLM training to inference & MLOps.
- 🐧 Ubuntu & Linux power user.
- 🖨️ 3D printing enthusiast — Creality Ender 3 V2 & Snapmaker U1; contributor to OrcaSlicer.
- ⚡ Strong advocate for Open Source.
- restorax — Open-source AI video & audio restoration platform: 25 models, pipeline DAG engine, ComfyUI node pack, REST API & CLI.
- yilki-llm — Training a Turkish LLM from scratch on a single RTX 3080: code, configs & experiment notes.
- celery-fastapi — Automatic REST API generation for Celery tasks with FastAPI.
- awesome-docker-compose — Curated Docker Compose configurations for PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch & more.
- Email: ilkerkara@outlook.com.tr
- LinkedIn: İlker Kara
- X (Twitter): @ilkerkara_




