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title: 'About Me'
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date: '2026-10-03'
description: 'Personal Information Mahmut Cavdar ❖ mahmutcvdr {at] gmail ❖ Antalya, Turkey Work Experience Cerence 2019 – 2024 Senior NLP Engineer Remote Nuance April 2019 – October 2019 NLU Engineer Remote CNRS 2017 Research Intern LIMSI…'
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# About Me

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 **Personal Information**

Mahmut Cavdar

 ![drawing](https://mcavdar.com/user/themes/quark/images/photo_cln.png)

 ❖ mahmutcvdr {at\] gmail ❖ Antalya, Turkey

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**Work Experience**

 [**Cerence**](https://cerence.com/) 2019 – 2024

 *Senior NLP Engineer* *Remote*

 [**Nuance**](https://nuance.com/) April 2019 – October 2019

 *NLU Engineer* *Remote*

 [**CNRS**](https://www.cnrs.fr) 2017

 *Research Intern LIMSI* *Paris*

 [**Infotech**](https://www.infotech.com.tr) 2014 – 2015

 *Software Engineer* *Istanbul*

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**Education**

 [**Paris-Saclay University**](https://www.universite-paris-saclay.fr) 2016 - 2017

 *Master - Machine Learning, Information and Content* *Paris*

 [**Galatasaray University**](https://gsu.edu.tr) 2010 - 2015

 *Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering, Rank : -1* *Istanbul*

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**Projects**

- [Public Sector Job Announcements](https://kpss.envai.tr) – A platform listing current government job postings.
- [Self-Hosted Kokoro](https://kokoro.envai.tr/web/) – Dockerized FastAPI wrapper for Kokoro-82M text-to-speech model
- [Blocked Websites — Firefox Extension](https://addons.mozilla.org/tr/firefox/addon/blocked-websites/) – A Firefox add-on to block selected websites.
- [Right Click Actions — Firefox Extension](https://addons.mozilla.org/tr/firefox/addon/right-click-actions/) – Adds customizable actions to the browser’s right-click menu.
- [Acikmektep.org](https://acikmektep.org) – An open learning platform.
- [Self-Hosted Jitsi](https://call.envai.tr) – A private, self-hosted video conferencing service.
- [Self-Hosted Agent Chat UI](https://chat.envai.tr/) – A locally hosted interface for AI/agent chat.
- [Self-Hosted Docmost](https://note.mcavdar.com) – A personal instance of the Docmost knowledge-base platform.
- [Self-Hosted FreshRSS](https://rss.mcavdar.com) – A private RSS reader instance.
- [Self-Hosted Dolibarr](http://dolibarr.envai.tr) – A privately hosted Dolibarr ERP/CRM instance.

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**Skills**

- Programming languages : Python, Bash, Java, C/C++
- Framework : PyTorch, HuggingFace, LangChain, LlamaIndex
- Machine Learning : NumPy, scikit-learn, Supervised/Unsupervised learning, Feature Engineering, SVM, HMM, Naive Bayes, CRF, RNN
- DB Management and Tools : PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL, Git, SVN, Gitlab, Jira
- Languages : English, French, Turkish

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**Technology Interests**

Natural Language Understanding, Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, Conversational AI, 
Relation Extraction, Knowledge Base Population, Machine Translation, Deep learning

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