4+ Years
Experience
I build AI systems that are useful beyond the demo
I'm Cihat Emre Karataş, an AI Developer and Software Engineer based in Istanbul. My work focuses on turning modern AI capabilities into practical products: local-first assistants, RAG systems, internal tools, and full-stack applications people can actually use.
I enjoy working at the intersection of model capabilities, product thinking, and software engineering — not just making AI work, but making it reliable, understandable, and valuable in real workflows.
Core Stack
The tools I reach for when building AI-focused products and reliable web systems
Languages
AI & ML
Web Dev
Data Analysis
Databases
DevOps & Tools
What I’m Focused On
Current interests and areas of expertise
Local-first AI & LLMs
Building assistants, RAG workflows, and memory-enabled tools with local and hosted language models — with a focus on privacy, usefulness, and production readiness.
AI Product Engineering
Turning AI prototypes into usable applications with dependable APIs, clean interfaces, authentication, storage, and deployment paths.
RAG & Knowledge Systems
Designing retrieval pipelines, document understanding flows, semantic search, and internal knowledge assistants for real-world data.
Have an AI product idea worth building?
I’m open to roles, collaborations, and freelance projects around LLM applications, local-first AI, RAG systems, and intelligent web products.