Bekir Sadik
Altunkaya

Technical Team Lead for RLHF & Post-Training at ***. Computer engineering student. Building systems that make language models better.

Istanbul, Turkey TA6BSA altunkaya.dev

Experience

Technical Team Lead, RLHF & Post-Training @ ***

2025–present

Leading distributed teams on reinforcement learning from human feedback and post-training pipelines for large language models.

RLHF SFT Team Lead

QA Coding Team Lead @ Scale AI

2024–2025

Led training and fine-tuning efforts for advanced language models. Oversaw code quality across 10+ projects spanning RLHF, SFT, and rubric data pipelines generating over $10M in cumulative revenue.

RLHF C++/Java Leadership

Code Quality Reviewer @ Magic.dev

2025

Reviewed and approved 600+ large-scale GitHub PRs for code generation models. Evaluated complex code for reasoning depth, syntax correctness, and multi-file context handling.

Code Review LLMs GitHub

STAR Scholar Research Intern @ TÜBİTAK UME

2025–2026

Engineered an end-to-end hyperspectral imaging pipeline processing 9.2GB+ HDF5 data cubes. Built a spectral unmixing engine achieving 97-99% R² fit. Optimized a YOLO-based CV system on a 15k dataset.

Python PyQt5 Computer Vision

Front End Web Dev Intern @ Cozum Publishings

2025

Shipped a fast video player using YouTube infra and Next.js across web and mobile study apps. Reached 100K+ monthly learners and drove 2M+ video plays/year. Built a supplementary vanilla-JS version so schools and older devices could run the same player without a framework.

Next.js JavaScript YouTube API

Software Engineering Intern @ Turkcell

2026

Engineered secure Mobile Signature solutions compliant with XAdES and XML standards. Optimized XML signature parsing, reducing validation latency by 35% to support 2.5M+ daily transactions.

Java Spring Boot Cryptography

Research

Visual Greenwashing Detection

2025–2026

TÜBİTAK 3005 project. Built a 4-stage multi-modal semantic relevance detection pipeline using a dual-agent Vision-Language Model architecture (LLaVA v1.6) with sliding window context. Achieved 83.3% precision and 0.79 F1-Score. Published at SIU 2026.

LLaVA MinerU NLP

Writing

Coming soon

About

Computer engineering student at Gebze Technical University. Currently leading RLHF and post-training efforts at ***, previously QA Coding Team Lead at Scale AI.

Interested in post-training alignment, computer vision, multimodal AI systems, and the intersection of language and perception.

Licensed amateur radio operator (TA6BSA). When I'm not working on models, I'm probably reading about ******************

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