I'm a senior AI engineer at Enocta and the founder of Eschatia Labs, an independent, non-profit open-source AI research lab. I build small models that run on a laptop, agents you can inspect and detectors that show their evidence.
- Senior AI Engineer, Enocta, since 2025. Assistants that answer from company documents (RAG), an agentic customer-success workflow, role-play training simulations.
- Full-stack and Mobile Engineer, Credit Bureau of Turkey (KKB), 2023-2024. Financial software used across the Turkish banking sector: backend, mobile and system design.
- AI and Full-stack Engineer, AgriDL5.0, 2022-2023 (contract). Models that predict growing conditions in vertical farms, plus the Flutter app on top.
- Backend and Data Engineer, Alictus, 2021-2022. Moved internal tools to the cloud with Go and Azure.
- Internships at SimBT, BiSoft and Roar Games Studio, 2019-2021. Defence technology software, an NLTK and Neo4j chatbot before LLMs, Unity and C# games.
- Emberwick: A medieval village you play in the browser. Three small decision models decide what the villagers do through storms, fires, markets and wolves.
- reevesagents: Run Claude Code, Codex and 20+ other coding assistants side by side in one terminal, with one of them coordinating the rest. CLI, TUI, Web UI and MCP server. 107 stars, 2,375 npm downloads a month.
- JevAlt: The three 4B decision models behind Emberwick, for English, Turkish and German. Calibrated answers on a laptop with about 3 GB of memory. 3,505 Hugging Face model downloads.
- xdfdet: Explainable deepfake detection: eight EfficientNet-B4 models with Grad-CAM evidence, the code behind my thesis and conference paper. 1,133 Hugging Face downloads.
- Tholos: Small local assistants that share tables, notes and a task board, every action behind a rule. Its model, Tholos-2B: 2,248 Hugging Face downloads.
- Ultra Mod: The all-in-one mod pack for Claude Code. 2,224 npm downloads a month.
Download counts from 25 October 2026: 10,341 on Hugging Face (6,886 for my models, 3,455 for my datasets) and 10,018 for my npm packages.
Languages
AI and data
Web, apps and games
Databases
Infrastructure and tools
Also: SQL, NLTK, Weaviate.
- MSc Computer Science, TED University, 2023-2025, full merit scholarship. Thesis: Explainable deepfake detection using frame level CNN models: A comparative study of augmentation and cutout techniques, advised by Professor Venera Adanova.
- MSc Computer Science and AI, IU International University of Applied Sciences, 2022-2023, full scholarship, remote. One year before I moved to TED University.
- BSc Computer Engineering, TOBB University of Economics and Technology (TOBB ETU), 2016-2021.
- UBMK 2026 (IEEE), Augmentation and Cutout in Deepfake Detection: A Comparative Study of Accuracy, Calibration, and Attention, with Professor Venera Adanova. Presented at the 11th International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering in Istanbul, September 2026. To appear in IEEE Xplore.
Merged: 
Claude Code Router, 
claude-swap, 
caire, 
ManimGX, 
Claude HUD, 
ccstatusline
Credited: 
rea, 
Hermes Agent
In progress: 
Qwen Code, 
Hugging Face datasets, 
SGLang, 
Claude Agent SDK, 
LM Evaluation Harness, 
Codex, 
DeepSeek Harness, 
Kimi Code
The full list is on mertkayacs.com/open-source.
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