Sinan-Deniz Çeviker
AI & software engineer in Groningen.
I build machine-learning models and the software that puts them to work: backends, web and mobile apps. Finishing a BSc in Artificial Intelligence and developing part-time at the University of Groningen.
Selected track
Sweep · 11 tracks · Locked AICUP
AICUP
Competition
Team Geto-Dacians · AI Cup 2026 · Team Epoch, TU Delft · TNO · Feb to Apr 2026
- Role
- Team Geto-Dacians
- With
- AI Cup 2026 · Team Epoch, TU Delft · TNO
- When
- Feb to Apr 2026
2nd of 89 teams and 300 students, with a €2,000 prize: bird species from radar tracks, to protect birds around wind farms.
Experience and education
Active6
CAL
Project
Built it, solo
Calories, own app
Oct 2026, public beta
An offline-first calorie and macro tracker with barcode scanning, an offline food database and a target that adapts to your weight. Everything stays on the phone.
Expo and React Native with SQLite and Drizzle on the device, the ANSES-CIQUAL food table bundled, Open Food Facts for barcodes, Apple Health and Health Connect sync.
COUP
Project
Co-founder & CTO
coup
2026 to now
A student marketplace with its own currency, live on the App Store and Google Play, with 19 partner venues in Groningen.
Expo app, Next.js admin, and a Supabase/Postgres backend with row-level security, scheduled jobs and edge functions. Over 2,200 automated tests.
TA
Role
Teaching assistant
University of Groningen
Apr 2026 to now
Mentor student teams building an autonomous-driving robot end to end: lane following, traffic-sign recognition and behaviour planning.
Debugging across the robotics stack: real-time image processing, PID control and lidar-based perception.
RUG
Role
Developer, part-time
University of Groningen
Aug 2025 to now
Dashboards and mapping tools for the university’s buildings.
Built with university stakeholders through regular demos and feedback rounds.
SNS
Project
Founder
SNS Automation
2024 to now
A one-person software studio: seven client websites live in Romania and Turkey, and a Bluetooth machine-control app sold with industrial machinery.
Next.js and Payload CMS sites, Expo apps, and AI automations for small businesses.
BSC
Education
BSc Artificial Intelligence
University of Groningen
Sep 2023 to 2026
Thesis on how uncertainty in radar measurements carries through a classifier’s predictions.
Specialised in machine learning (neural networks, reinforcement learning, uncertainty in ML) and robotics.
Completed5
TNO
Role
Software engineering intern
TNO
Feb to Jun 2026
Built a Python MCP server that gives AI coding assistants direct access to TNO’s library of data standards.
Hexagonal architecture, Pydantic v2 and async httpx, stdio and HTTP transports. An 80% coverage gate, strict mypy, Docker and CI.
AICUP
Competition
Team Geto-Dacians
AI Cup 2026 · Team Epoch, TU Delft · TNO
Feb to Apr 2026
2nd of 89 teams and 300 students, with a €2,000 prize: bird species from radar tracks, to protect birds around wind farms.
TabPFN at the core with gradient-boosted trees, flight features with the wind’s effect removed, and a prior from real migration counts.
YOUWE
Role
Machine learning intern
Youwe
Sep 2025 to Feb 2026
A sprint-health classifier on Jira data: 96% accuracy on unhealthy sprints from the first day of the sprint.
Five-person team. Python, pandas, scikit-learn, LightGBM, Optuna, SHAP and Streamlit, with models built to hold up under distribution shift.
HELLA
Role
Software development engineer
HELLA, Timișoara
May to Aug 2023
Developed and validated automotive software components.
Rhapsody, DOORS and PTC Integrity for design and requirements; Vector CANoe and DaVinci Developer Classic; component testing and validation with WinIdea.
CONTI
Role
Software integration developer
Continental, Timișoara
Nov 2022 to May 2023
Integrated automotive software stacks on QNX with custom build systems.
Automated build, test and integration workflows with Jenkins and CMake, in Agile teams.
Selected work
Case studies from my studio, SNS Automation, where the client work lives.
- COUP
Read the case studycoup
A new currency for students: a marketplace where nothing costs real money.
Expo · React Native · Next.js · Supabase · PostgreSQL
- GENESA
Read the case studyGenesa
A restaurant and guesthouse whose website runs the daily routine: menu photos, Facebook posts, order alerts and bookings.
Next.js · Payload CMS · OpenAI · Stripe · Pusher · Vonage SMS
- HMI
Read the case studyMachinery HMI remote control
A phone app that runs an industrial PVC-processing machine over Bluetooth, sold together with the machine.
Expo · TypeScript · Bluetooth LE · Bluetooth Classic
- PLSTMCH
Read the case studyPlastmach, Vorne, Windowland
One client, three storefronts: machinery, hardware and window accessories, each with its own domain and audience.
Next.js · Payload CMS · Tailwind · next-intl
- AICUP
Read the case studyAI Cup 2026
2nd of 89 teams in the Netherlands: bird species identification from radar data, for conservation around wind farms.
Python · TabPFN · LightGBM · CatBoost · XGBoost
The Çeviker family tree
An interactive family tree I built for my family: generations laid out automatically as a graph you can pan and zoom, where clicking anyone brings their branch into view.
Next.js, React Flow, dagre
Visit ceviker.xyzTools I work with
- Machine learning
- Python, pandas, scikit-learn, LightGBM, XGBoost, CatBoost, TabPFN, PyTorch, Ultralytics YOLO, OpenCV, SHAP, Optuna
- Backends and data
- Python, Pydantic, httpx, TypeScript, Node.js, Hono, PostgreSQL, Supabase, Drizzle, REST and OpenAPI, Docker, CI
- Web
- Next.js, React, Payload CMS, Sanity, Tailwind CSS, Playwright, Vitest
- Mobile and desktop
- Expo, React Native, SQLite, Drizzle, Tauri
- Embedded and automotive
- Bluetooth LE and Classic, PLC protocols, QNX, CMake, Jenkins, Vector CANoe, DaVinci Developer
Let’s talk.
Hiring for an engineering role, or want to discuss one? Email is fastest. I reply within two working days.
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