Utku Yakar


Location

Worcester, MA
Portland, OR
Education
    Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    August 2022 - May 2026
    expected degree
    Bachelor's
    major
    Computer Science
    minor
    Data Science
Work Experience
    Optimization AND Machine Learning Systems Capstone Project WPI
    Technical Lead
    August 2025 - present
    company
    Optimization AND Machine Learning Systems Capstone Project WPI
    title
    Technical Lead
    SWAP Hub ARCHES Research Group WPI
    Full Stack Lead Developer
    April 2025 - present
    U S Army Research Laboratory DEVCOM ARL
    Machine Learning AND Software Architecture Intern
    June 2025 - December 2025
    Siyah Research and Development
    Machine Learning Intern
    London, UK
    May 2024 - July 2024
    Computer Science Department WPI
    Machine Learning Research Assistant
    May 2023 - November 2023
Skills
Languages
EnglishGermanTurkish
Skills
AdaptabilityAmazon Elastic Compute CloudAmazon Relational Database ServiceAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesApplication Programming Interfaces (APIs)BackendChatbotsContinuous IntegrationC++ (Programming Language)Creating PrototypesC Sharp (Programming Language)DatabasesData LoggingData ScienceDecision Support SystemsDockerExecution of ExperimentsFastapiForecasting SkillsGithubIndexerInformation TechnologyInfrastructure ManagementJava (Programming Language)JavaScript (Programming Language)KerasKnowledge of StatisticsKubernetesLarge Language ModelsMachine LearningMachine Learning OperationsMicroservicesModeling SkillsMongoDBPostgreSQLPython (Programming Language)PytorchQuery OptimizationRadioRaspberry PiRedisResearch and DevelopmentResearch SkillsRole-Based Access ControlScalabilitySchedulingScikit LearnSecurity Requirements AnalysisSemanticsSoftware ArchitectureSpeech RecognitionSQL DatabasesSwap (finance)TensorflowTime SeriesTypeScript