Yaaqob Alfakih

AI & Backend Software Engineer

Full-Stack Developer · RAG Systems Developer · AI Application Engineer

Summary

Computer Engineer with one year of practical software development experience inside a university Digital Transformation Coordination Office. Experienced in backend and frontend development, RAG chatbot systems, application portals, dashboards, web crawling, REST APIs, security hardening, and Odoo-based web applications. Contributed to locally hosted AI solutions including a university RAG chatbot, a student application management portal, and an Odoo 18 website auto-translation platform powered by local AI models.

Experience

Software Developer Intern

August 2025 – July 2026

OSTİM Technical University — Digital Transformation Coordination Office · Ankara, Türkiye

One-year unpaid internship within the university’s software development team.

Contributed backend and frontend features to internal university platforms within a cross-functional development team.
Worked in sprint cycles under Scrum, with sprint planning, task management and collaborative code review.
Followed CMMI-aligned process standards for documentation, testing and deployment.
Built and maintained features across a RAG chatbot platform, a student application management portal and an Odoo 18 translation system.
Applied security hardening practices — input validation, sanitisation and rate limiting — to public-facing endpoints.
Produced structured technical documentation alongside implementation work.

Selected projects

OstimGPT

Contributor, university development team

A locally hosted Retrieval-Augmented Generation chatbot answering questions from university sources.

Python · REST APIs · In-memory caching · Session management · Retrieval-Augmented Generation · Local LLM · Document chunking · Web crawling · Scrum · CMMI · Code review · Testing · Technical documentation

Student Application Management System

Contributor, university development team

A digital student application platform with applicant profiles, internal review workflows and configurable reporting.

REST APIs · Application status endpoint · Data models · JavaScript · HTML · CSS · Dashboard interfaces · Locally hosted models · Language configuration service · Scrum · CMMI · Code review · Testing

Odoo 18 Website Auto-Translation

Contributor, university development team

A locally hosted translation platform for an Odoo 18 university website, powered by Ollama and local models.

Python · Odoo 18 · Ollama · Local LLM · Prompt engineering · HTML chunking · Job platform · Rate limiting · Configuration pages · Testing · Technical documentation · Scrum · CMMI

Skills

Artificial Intelligence and RAG

Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems
Local LLM integration
Ollama
Web crawling
Document retrieval
Chunk optimization
Source citations
Confidence indicators
Prompt engineering
Multilingual AI applications
AI-powered translation workflows

Backend Development

Python
REST APIs
SQL
Backend architecture
Session management
Caching
API development
Input validation
Health-check endpoints
Logging and diagnostics

Frontend Development

JavaScript
HTML
CSS
Responsive interface development
Dashboard interfaces
Profile pages
Application portal interfaces
Administrative interfaces

Security

Rate limiting
SQL injection prevention
XSS prevention
HTML sanitisation
Script-injection blocking
Per-IP request limits
Secure UUID sessions
Input validation

Platforms and Applications

Odoo 18
Application portal development
Reporting dashboards
Monitoring dashboards
Content translation systems
University information systems

Software Engineering Practices

Scrum
CMMI practices
Sprint planning
Code review
Version control
Testing
Deployment
Technical documentation
Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering

January 2026

OSTİM Technical University · Ankara, Türkiye

Languages

Arabic — Native or bilingual proficiency
English — Professional working proficiency