Hi, I'm

Uğur ÖZCAN

Senior Data Engineer | Tech Lead —

I build reliable data platforms, NLP/LLM systems, and production agentic AI — from large-scale data collection to LangGraph/MCP agents, guardrails, and analytics. Currently leading technical delivery at Huawei.

8+ yrs experience · 10+ data pipelines · Agentic AI & LLMs · Based in Muğla, TR · Open to remote

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About

Senior Data Engineer and Technical Lead with 8+ years of experience building scalable data platforms and production AI systems. At Huawei I lead agentic AI delivery (LangGraph/FastAPI, MCP tools, guardrails, and evaluation), Big Data performance work, and MENA data-governance pipelines — alongside NLP/LLM initiatives and mentoring engineering teams to ship mission-critical software.

Location: Mugla, Turkey
Phone: +90 (534) 364 4085

Email: ugurozcan108@gmail.com
GitHub: github.com/uozcan12

Interests

Agentic AI

Natural Language Processing

AI Guardrails

Machine Learning

Data Analytics

Computer Vision

Data Collection & Crawling

Repository Management

Education

2017 - 2019 Izmir Institute of Technology
Computer Engineering - Master Program (Class Term)

Probabilistic Reasoning
Digital Image Processing
Advance Algorithms
Introduction to Biometrics
Deep Learning
Heterogenous Parallel Programming
Advance Software Engineering (Microservices)

2012 - 2017 (3.26/4.00) Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University
Computer Engineering

Publications

04/2017 - An Augmented Reality Application for Smart Campus Urbanization: MSKU Campus Prototype
Uğur Özcan, Aslıhan Arslan, Menekşe İlkyaz, Enis Karaarslan
ICSG 2017, İstanbul, Turkey
02/2016 - An Augmented Reality Application for Smart Campus Urbanization: MSKU Campus Prototype
Uğur Özcan, Aslıhan Arslan, Enis Karaarslan
Academic Informatics, Aydın, Turkey

Competitions & Awards

05/2017 - Smart Campus: Augmented Reality and Social Media Integration
Uğur Özcan, Aslıhan Arslan
Won a prize in GBYF2017 at "Best Project in City and Environment Category", IZTECH, İzmir
12/2016 - An Augmented Reality Application for Smart Campus Urbanization: MSKU Campus Prototype
Uğur Özcan, Aslıhan Arslan, Enis Karaarslan
Won Tübitak 2209-A Research Project Programme support

Experience

Huawei

July 2025 – Present

Senior Data Engineer | Tech Lead

Technical Leadership: Directed team technical strategy, codebase reviews, and delivery standards across data and AI initiatives.
Agentic AI (AOP): Delivered skill-based LangGraph/FastAPI agent capabilities with MCP tool integration and demo APIs for regulated tele-sales flows.
AI Guardrails: Shipped a FastAPI guardrail microservice (input L1/L2 screening, output policy LLM, session PII vault) for production agent pipelines.
BigTicket Domain: Built 9 Postgres-backed MCP tools, compliance-oriented sales skills/SOPs, and FAQ knowledge assets for stakeholder demos.
Agent Evaluation: Led remittance-agent quality analysis (10 scenarios / 24 turns), prioritizing fixes for tool accuracy, anti-hallucination, and escalation SOP.
Performance Optimization: Improved TPP Spark and File System codebases, cutting execution time by 58.9% (908s to 373s) via parallel processing.
Data Governance: Built end-to-end ETL pipelines for MENA projects, integrating ElasticSearch, MongoDB, and SAP into Agent Databases.
Project Management: Delivered 10+ high-priority crawling projects and built an internal Kanban system (DTWF) for workload tracking.
Multilingual Support: Managed TPP/PP configurations and dataset acquisition across 7 languages (Arabic, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Turkish, Swahili).
System Development: Built a Django service for the Computer Vision team and a full-stack mini-service for the CCTV Environment project.
Training: Delivered professional Django training sessions to multiple cross-functional teams in the SADC department.

Huawei

January 2023 – July 2025

Data Engineer

Petal Search Project: Oversaw box maintenance, including the addition of new content providers, and addressed bug fixes to ensure optimal functionality.
Data Image Collection Project: Spearheaded the acquisition of diverse image datasets across numerous categories by establishing and managing virtual machines (VMs) and containers for efficient data collection.
NLP Chat Text Project: Orchestrated the aggregation of textual data across various categories aligned with our flower data template to support natural language processing initiatives.
Inner Team Projects: Led the development of Text Preprocessing Tool, Common Crawler v1.0, and Common Analyzer v1.0, enhancing team efficiency and workflow.
LLM Project: Directed the gathering of textual data spanning SFT sections such as Text Summarization, Reading Comprehension, and Brainstorming. Additionally, conducted prompt engineering for GPT3.5 and GPT4.
Data Crawling Projects Management: Managed the extraction of textual data from targeted websites and oversaw the coordination of associated projects for efficient data collection and processing.
Codebase Review/Update and Repository Management: Implemented effective codebase review and update processes to ensure code quality and consistency within the team. Managed the health and organization of team repositories to facilitate seamless collaboration and version control.

Quick and Quality Coding Soft

November 2022 – January 2023

Software Engineer

Online Medical Doctor Notes Analysis Project via NLP: Python, OpenAI, HuggingFace
Data Visualization Tool: ThreeJS

Osoci

June 2022 – November 2022

Backend Developer

Online Media Stream Service Backend Site: Janus, NestJS
Platform Database and Program Infrastructure: Docker, Docker Compose, MongoDB
Maintenance Software Healthy Check Platform: Grafana
Research and Develop Media Stream Services: Janus, Ant Media Server
Develop and Configure CI/CD Platform: Jenkins

Fited

June 2019 – June 2022

Founding Engineer & Software Engineer

3D Scoliosis Brace Design and Development Platform: ThreeJS
3B Scoliosis Brace Design and Development Platform Database and Program Infrastructure, Google Cloud Technology (GCP): Google Datastore, Google Storage, App Engine, Compute Engine, Firebase
Creating Design and Software Testing Platform: Selenium, ThreeJS Test Tool
Develop m3dl and cm3dl File Structure: Mathematical Equations
Develop Web Interface: Flask
Develop CI/CD Platform: Jenkins
Reverse Engineering on Grasshopper/Rhinoceros7: NURBSPython, rw3dm, rhino3dm, compute-rhino3d libraries
Responsible For Other Full-Stack Requirements: Brace Order Form, etc.

IZTECH - CSIGB Research Group

October 2017 – June 2018

Msc. Student, Software Engineer

Automated Latent Fingerprint Recognition From Crime Scenes Project (TUBİTAK 1001)
Generate Random Fingerprints and Analyze Them on a Program (AFIS - Automated Fingerprint Identification System)
Provide Biometric Databases From Related Universities and Departments
Research on Other Biometric Topics: Face Recognition, Iris Recognition, Gait Recognition
Develop Computer Vision and Deep Learning Models and Algorithms: PyTorch, Keras, TensorFlow, OpenCV
CSIGB website: https://csigb.iyte.edu.tr/people/

Radboud University

June 2016 – September 2016

Erasmus Internship Programme

Relevancer Project: Dashboard and Develop Content in Project
Create Classification and Clustering Algorithms: Developed algorithms on the ru.nl server
Analyze Tweet Data: Analyzed over 1 GB of user data on specific topics, such as Genocide and Vaccination
Responsible for Database: MongoDB
Responsible for API: Flask API, Eve API
Relevancer Website: https://relevancer.science.ru.nl/about
Relevancer Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/hurrial/relevancer/commits