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cihan uluisik, AI Lead/Architect, Manager

cihan uluisik

AI Lead/Architect, Manager·FGIT AI Innovation Hub,

United Arab Emirates

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering

Work experience

Total years of experience: 28 years, 5 months

AI Lead/Architect, Manager

December 2025 - Present

FGIT AI Innovation Hub,

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

December 2025 - Present

Managed enterprise-scale implementation of AI applications on cloud, enabling secured, governed and compliant,
highly available agentic AI services for critical banking operations.
• Full technical ownership of AI application delivery, engineering, architecture and management.
• Led and code reviewed AI assistants, RAG/agentic projects working on production with ML models,
LangChain, LangGraph, Azure Search, Azure Document Intelligence, AI Search, PGVector and PostgreSQL and
agent reasoning.
• Managed and architected parallelised ETL and MLOPs pipelines on Databricks.
• Implemented enterprise integration layers using Azure APIM, ensuring secure, governed, and scalable access to
AI capabilities across internal systems with frameworks
• Led MLOPs chapter to create proper Responsible AI compliant MLOPs processes from scratch. Managed
MLOPs tools selection with two other departments, decision records, training, implementation and
documentation. Led Agentic platform architect squad to develop and run LangChain/LangGraph agents to in
house agentic platform. Evaluated early version of MS Agent Framework - MAF.
• Rearchitected CX - customer experience, hyper personalisation Gen AI projects done by consultancies to clear
tech dept, and architectural disparity, governance and security issues, leveraging Azure OpenAI- GPT-4.1, MS
Foundry, LangChain/LangGraph with multi-agent orchestration, LLM reasoning.
• Tech Stack : AWS Bedrock and Agent Core, OpenAI, CrewAI, LangFuse, OPIK, LLMOPs, Databricks
MLFlow, Azure ML, Sagemaker, Python, Java, Agentic Reasoning - ReAct, PaS
Company industry:
Banking

Engineer and Lead

February 1998 - June 2026

Miscellaneous Companies,

London, United Kingdom

February 1998 - June 2026

Worked for multiple companies including Sony Eurasia and FinansBank and projects, mostly as hands software
engineer and lead with Java and C#
Company industry:
Administration Support Services

Lead Engineer, AI, Manager

January 2024 - November 2025

G42/M42,

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

January 2024 - November 2025

specialising solutions, language models (LLMs),
AI agents and assistants for doctors, physicians, and patients to enhance medical practice and patient care.
• Hands on tech leading LLM projects, designing and coding conversation enriched LLM APIs to in house LLM
models.
• AI agent and workflows design and coding on multiple projects using LangChain, RAG. Integrating with third
party APIs for smooth flow.
• Worked on numerous GenAI POCs, AI project consultancies. Delivered quick prototypes using LLMs,
LangGraph, LangChain, RAG, Agentic Reasoning.
• AI Architecture and engineering advice panel lead and project scoping for Hackathon.
• Speeded up engineering delivery coding and leading actively in multiple projects. Game changer performance.
• Mobilised whole engineering towards knowledge growth in AI. Led AI chapter. Taught and led tech leads on
agentic frameworks and designing workflow/agents.
• Championed AI adoption, founding the AI chapter, training tech leads on agentic frameworks, and introducing
AI code assistants to boost efficiency.
• Head engineering practice. Setting vision and mission towards more AI and people driven.
• Trained leads and senior engineers on AI, ESI, TDD, API first and contract driven methods.
• Run regular sessions to move towards better quality and continuous deployment. Promoting growth mind set by
constantly learning to lead by example.
• Tech Stack: Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, NumPy, Sckit-Learn, LangChain, LangGraph, RAG, Faiss, Milvus,
Azure Search, Document Intelligence, LLMs, FastAPI, Java/Spring, Redis, MongoDB, Azure - Open AI.
Company industry:
Laboratory & Quality Control

Lead/Principal Engineer, AI, Manager

January 2024 - November 2025

G42 Healthcare,

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

January 2024 - November 2025

specialising in AI-driven healthcare solutions, language models (LLMs),
AI agents and assistants for doctors, physicians, and patients to enhance medical practice and patient care.
• Hands on tech leading LLM projects, designing and coding conversation enriched LLM APIs to in house LLM
models.
• AI agent and workflows design and coding on multiple projects using LangChain, RAG. Integrating with third
party APIs for smooth flow.
• Worked on numerous GenAI POCs, AI project consultancies. Delivered quick prototypes using LLMs,
LangGraph, LangChain, RAG, Agentic Reasoning.
• AI Architecture and engineering advice panel lead and project scoping for Hackathon.
• Speeded up engineering delivery coding and leading actively in multiple projects. Game changer performance.
• Mobilised whole engineering towards knowledge growth in AI. Led AI chapter. Taught and led tech leads on
agentic frameworks and designing workflow/agents.
• Championed AI adoption, founding the AI chapter, training tech leads on agentic frameworks, and introducing
AI code assistants to boost efficiency.
• Head engineering practice. Setting vision and mission towards more AI and people driven.
• Trained leads and senior engineers on AI, ESI, TDD, API first and contract driven methods.
• Run regular sessions to move towards better quality and continuous deployment. Promoting growth mind set by
constantly learning to lead by example.
• Tech Stack: Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, NumPy, Sckit-Learn, LangChain, LangGraph, RAG, Faiss, Milvus,
Azure Search, Document Intelligence, LLMs, FastAPI, Java/Spring, Redis, MongoDB, Azure - Open AI.
Company industry:
Other Healthcare Services

Senior Backend Engineer, AI/ML

January 2022 - January 2024

London Bridge Information Tech/DataOliver,

London, United Kingdom •Remote

January 2022 - January 2024

Estonian implementing some AI providing innovative solutions.
• Hands on leading a team in designing and implementing LLM-based tools around LLM workflow on generic
micro service and chat to your db and document assistants.
• Developed regression and classification ML models trained from feature store like layer after a medallion layers
run on Databricks.
• Architected and deployed scalable early versions of smart agents with function calls to fetch from database
explored early versions of Langchain.
• Spearheaded the development of AI chatbots sourced with uploaded documents for RAG, leveraging open
source models and embeddings and Milvus.
• Trained engineers on test driven development, code quality levels, micro-services design principles.
• Prepare and evaluate high level technical architecture and design. Improving code and pod security with Sonar,
dependency and container scanning.
• Tech Stack: Python, Node, LangChain, Hugging Face, Mistral/Lama, PyTorch, TensorFlow, FastAPI,
PostgreSQL, Mongo, Databricks, GraphQL, Api Security/OAuth, Docker, K8, AWS - Vault, S3, SQS, Secret
Manager, KMS, API Gateway.
Company industry:
Software Development

Senior Engineer/Lead, AI/ML

January 2022 - January 2024

London Bridge Information Tech/DataOliver,

London, Great Britain (UK) •Remote

January 2022 - January 2024

A London startup consultancy implementing some AI tools and providing innovative solutions.
• Hands on leading a team in designing and implementing LLM-based tools around LLM workflow on generic
micro service and chat to your db and document assistants.
• Developed regression and classification ML models trained from feature store like layer after a medallion layers
run on Databricks.
• Architected and deployed scalable early versions of smart agents with function calls to fetch from database
explored early versions of Langchain.
• Spearheaded the development of AI chatbots sourced with uploaded documents for RAG, leveraging open
source models and embeddings and Milvus.
• Trained engineers on test driven development, code quality levels, micro-services design principles.
• Prepare and evaluate high level technical architecture and design. Improving code and pod security with Sonar,
dependency and container scanning.
• Tech Stack: Python, Node, LangChain, Hugging Face, Mistral/Lama, PyTorch, TensorFlow, FastAPI,
PostgreSQL, Mongo, Databricks, GraphQL, Api Security/OAuth, Docker, K8, AWS - Vault, S3, SQS, Secret
Manager, KMS, API Gateway.
Company industry:
Software Development

Senior Agile Consultant

January 2018 - January 2022

Bank of America,

London, United Kingdom

January 2018 - January 2022

Worked on Bank of America Merrill Lynchs Global Liquidity Platform, focusing on multi-currency notional pools, FX
micro-services and UI and sweeping execution simulation apps using Java and Node - javascript full.
Company industry:
Banking

Technical Architect, Manager

January 2018 - January 2022

Alef Education Consultancy,

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

January 2018 - January 2022

Ambitious startup setup to digitalise fully daily state school in class education with AI and Machine learning.
• Created knowledge graph service for ML and AI - compromised all curriculum, lessons and content, objectives,
learning paths.
• Led content, lesson, curriculum micro services development and migration from Ruby monolith to Kotlin
services with GraphQL at front.
• Continuously hiring, coaching, mentoring. Led and involved in self-development and technical tribes.
• Worked closely with the wider team to ensure high quality code is delivered in line with the project goals and
delivery cycles and non-functional requirements like scalability, availability, monitoring, performance.
• Led development of user-driven prototypes, identify technical options/inform architectural approaches, working
with team members to write tests, code and documentation for new/existing systems.
• Moved architecture continuously towards 12 factor micro-services, performance, scalability, security.
• Processes and practices: Agile -Scrum/Kanban/ DevOps -TDD/BDD/DDD -CI/CD.
• Tech Stack: Kotlin, Java, JS/Node, React/Apollo, GraphQL, Micro services, Docker, Kubernetes, GitOps,
Jenkins/CircleCI, Postgres, Mongo, Neo4J, AWS - EC2, EFS, S3, CDN, Aroura, Lambda
Company industry:
Primary, Prep, & Secondary School

Senior Agile Consultant, Full Stack

January 2016 - December 2017

Bank of America,

London, United Kingdom

January 2016 - December 2017

Worked on Bank of America Merrill Lynchs Global Liquidity Platform, focusing on multi-currency notional pools, FX
micro-services and UI and sweeping execution simulation apps using Java and Node - javascript full.
Company industry:
Banking

Lead Developer and Architect, Java

March 2010 - December 2015

UBS,

London, United Kingdom

March 2010 - December 2015

UBS - Fixed Income : Loan origination, trading, and system integration across offices. Developed front and mid office
applications interacting with systems like GGL, settlements, and credits with core Java, Swing, Web, Sybase, Oracle.
Company industry:
Banking

Education

Bogazici University

December 1996

December 1996

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering

Türkiye

GPA (point): 2.7 out of 4

GPA (point): 2.7 out of 4

The top university in Turkey, attracting best students.

Haydarpasa High School

July 1992

July 1992

High school or equivalent, Computer Engineering

Türkiye

GPA (percentage): 95%

GPA (percentage): 95%

Top score in University entrance exams

Skills

IT Consultancy
Expert
IT Consultancy
Expert
Offshore Software Development
Expert
Offshore Software Development
Expert
IT Management
Expert
IT Management
Expert
Software
Expert
Software
Expert
Aws
Expert
Aws
Expert
LangGraph
Expert
LangGraph
Expert
GenAI
Expert
GenAI
Expert
Python
Expert
Python
Expert
FastAPI
Expert
FastAPI
Expert
LangChain
Expert
LangChain
Expert
LLMs
Expert
LLMs
Expert
Large Language Model
Expert
Large Language Model
Expert
Agentic AI
Expert
Agentic AI
Expert
Gradio
Expert
Gradio
Expert
LangSmith
Expert
LangSmith
Expert
RAG
Expert
RAG
Expert
Vecto Store
Expert
Vecto Store
Expert
Plan and Solve (PaS
Expert
Plan and Solve (PaS
Expert
Chroma
Expert
Chroma
Expert
Azure
Expert
Azure
Expert
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Intermediate
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Intermediate
COMPONENT BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Intermediate
COMPONENT BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Intermediate
CONTENT FILTERING
Intermediate
CONTENT FILTERING
Intermediate
FLUX REACT JS
Intermediate
FLUX REACT JS
Intermediate
GENERATIVE DESIGN
Intermediate
GENERATIVE DESIGN
Intermediate
MLOPS MACHINE LEARNING OPERATIONS
Intermediate
MLOPS MACHINE LEARNING OPERATIONS
Intermediate
PROMPT ENGINEERING
Intermediate
PROMPT ENGINEERING
Intermediate
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Intermediate
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Intermediate
SQL TUNING
Intermediate
SQL TUNING
Intermediate
COMPLEX PROBLEM SOLVING
Intermediate
COMPLEX PROBLEM SOLVING
Intermediate
CONVERSATIONAL AI
Intermediate
CONVERSATIONAL AI
Intermediate
GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Intermediate
GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Intermediate
MLOPs
Expert
MLOPs
Expert
LLMOPs
Expert
LLMOPs
Expert
COACHING
Intermediate
COACHING
Intermediate
CORPORATE FORECASTING
Intermediate
CORPORATE FORECASTING
Intermediate
DATA SCIENCE
Intermediate
DATA SCIENCE
Intermediate
DEEP LEARNING
Intermediate
DEEP LEARNING
Intermediate
ENGINEERING ANALYSIS
Intermediate
ENGINEERING ANALYSIS
Intermediate
LEADERSHIP
Intermediate
LEADERSHIP
Intermediate
MACHINE LEARNING
Intermediate
MACHINE LEARNING
Intermediate
MANAGEMENT
Intermediate
MANAGEMENT
Intermediate
MATHEMATICS
Intermediate
MATHEMATICS
Intermediate

Social profiles

Languages

English

Native Speaker

Turkish

Native Speaker

Arabic

Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Certifications
Scala: Big Data Analysis with Scala and Spark
New Relic Certified Performance Pro
AWS Certified Architect Associate
Micro services: Asynchronous Messaging
Kubernetes Native Tools | Micro services: Design Patterns
Infrastructure as Code
DevOps Foundations: DevSecOps
Emotional and Social Intelligence
Advanced Python | Python Data Structures: Dictionaries
IBM, Generative AI Advance Fine-Tuning for LLMs
IBM, Generative AI Engineering and Fine-Tuning Transformers
IBM, Gen AI Foundational Models for NLP & Language Understanding
IBM, Generative AI and LLMs: Architecture and Data Preparation
NVDIA, Sizing LLM Inference Systems
DeepLearning.AI, LLMOps
MS Foundry and MS Agent Framework
London Mathematics for Machine Learning
Machine Learning Specialisation
Responsible Generative AI
Functional Programming Principles
Scala: Big Data Analysis with Scala and Spark | Parallel Programming
New Relic Certified Performance Pro
AWS Certified Architect Associate
Micro services: Asynchronous Messaging
Kubernetes Native Tools | Micro services: Design Patterns
DevOps Foundations: DevSecOps | Infrastructure as Code | Lean and Agile
Humble Leadership: The Power of
Emotional and Social Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence
Advanced Python | Python Data Structures: Dictionaries
IBM, Generative AI Advance Fine-Tuning for LLMs
IBM, Generative AI Engineering and Fine-Tuning Transformers
IBM, Gen AI Foundational Models for NLP & Language Understanding
IBM, Generative AI and LLMs: Architecture and Data Preparation
NVDIA, Sizing LLM Inference Systems
DeepLearning.AI, LLMOps
MS Foundry and MS Agent Framework
London Mathematics for Machine Learning
Machine Learning Specialisation
AI Mathematics for Machine Learning and Data Science
AI Deep
Enterprise AI With Databricks Specialisation
MS Certified Database Administrator | 2001 Oracle: SQL and PL/SQL
New Relic Certified Performance Pro
AWS Certified Architect Associate
Kubernetes Native Tools | Micro services: Design Patterns | Micro services: Asynchronous Messaging
DevOps Foundations: DevSecOps | Infrastructure as Code | Lean and Agile
Lead Like A Boss
Transitioning
Agile Software Development
Active Listening: Enhancing Communication Skills
Emotional and Social Intelligence
Effective Leadership: Master Management Styles
Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
Emotional Intelligence
Effective Communication Skills
Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence
Advanced Python | Python Data Structures: Dictionaries
AI for Efficient Programming: Harnessing the Power of LLMs
Use Generative AI as Your Thought Partner
IBM, Generative AI Advance Fine-Tuning for LLMs
Generative AI Engineering and Fine-Tuning Transformers
Generative AI Language Modelling with Transformers
IBM, Gen AI Foundational Models for NLP & Language Understanding
IBM, Generative AI and LLMs: Architecture and Data Preparation
Sizing LLM Inference Systems
Deeplearning.AI, LLMOps
MS Foundry and MS Agent Framework
Mathematics for Machine
Enterprise AI
Lead Like A Boss
Transitioning from Technical Professional to Manager
Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust
Agile Software Development: Transforming Your Organization
Top 10 Rules for Highly Effective Leadership
Active Listening: Enhancing Communication Skills
Emotional and Social Intelligence
Effective Leadership: Master Management Styles
Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
Microservices: Asynchronous Messaging
Microservices: Design Patterns
Kubernetes Native Tools
Infrastructure as Code
DevOps Foundations: DevSecOps
2001 Oracle: SQL and PL/SQL
MS Certified Database Administrator
Valtech Certification: Agile Apprentice
OCP, Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 8 Programmer II
Functional Programming Principles
Functional Programming Design
Parallel Programming
Scala: Big Data Analysis with Scala and Spark
Kotlin for Java Developers
New Relic Certified Performance Pro
AWS Certified Architect Associate
Advanced Python | Python Data Structures: Dictionaries
Gen AI Foundational Models for NLP & Language Understanding
IBM, Generative AI and LLMs: Architecture and Data Preparation
Sizing LLM Inference Systems
Generative AI Engineering with LLMs