Hello, I'm

Gunal Hincal

AI-Focused Business Analyst & Data/AI Specialist

Generative AI LLM Systems Automation Systems Strategic Analytics

I design Generative AI solutions, LLM pipelines and analytical products for banking, manufacturing and enterprise environments. I turn complex business requirements into AI-powered workflows that are practical, auditable and production-ready.

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01 About

I'm an AI-focused Business Analyst and data professional with hands-on experience in Generative AI solutions, LLM-based pipelines and analytical products. My work spans RAG architectures, multi-agent systems, prompt design and API integration, combined with strong business analysis skills: requirements definition, stakeholder alignment and governance-aligned delivery.

I'm currently contributing to GenAI product initiatives at Akbank, translating complex business requirements into AI-powered workflows. On the side, I'm building GunAI Solutions, a B2B AI automation service targeting the Gulf market, and I publish technical content on AI and LLM systems on Medium and LinkedIn.

Across close to 7 years of professional experience, including a strong presence in the Gulf and Qatar market, I've learned that staying relevant means staying curious. My real passion is researching, learning and living inside the technology — constantly adapting to every newly released tool and turning it into something useful for real businesses.

0 Sectors served, from banking to manufacturing
0 Production AI projects delivered
0 Years mentoring data science students
MSc MIS (ongoing) · Thesis: fine-tuning LLMs for domain-specific NLP

02 Experience

Dec 2025 to Present

Specialist, Business Analyst (AI & GenAI Products)

Akbank Technology, via Etiya

  • Contributing to Generative AI and digital banking initiatives within Akbank's AI and Technology Architecture teams.
  • Translating complex business requirements into functional GenAI specifications: product flows, data requirements and integration touchpoints.
  • Supporting the full lifecycle of AI initiatives from discovery and PoC to production rollout.
  • Contributing to governance-aligned deployments through risk evaluation, compliance checks and production-readiness assessments.
Aug 2025 to Present

Private AI Instructor

Independent, Remote

  • Applied AI training for business professionals: LLM integration, prompt engineering and automation platforms.
  • Hands-on sessions built around practical use cases such as document processing, workflow automation and data-assisted decision-making.
Aug 2025 to Dec 2025

Enterprise Generative AI Solutions Architect

Skymod Technology, İzmir

  • Designed enterprise GenAI and RAG-based assistants for manufacturing, banking and retail clients.
  • Developed multi-agent workflows for data retrieval, SQL reasoning and automated reporting on the Skystudio platform.
  • Led prompt engineering and context design, building structured frameworks and memory-driven pipelines.
Feb 2024 to Jan 2025

AI/ML Solutions Architect

Practicus AI, Remote

  • Delivered platform-agnostic AI/ML solutions for B2B clients, improving data pipeline performance and model reliability.
  • Translated business challenges into scalable AI and data science solutions with stakeholders.
  • Supported product testing, validation and release readiness for AI-integrated products.
Jan 2023 to Nov 2025

Teaching Assistant & Bootcamp Mentor

Miuul, Remote

  • Mentored students across Data Science, Machine Learning and AI bootcamps.
  • Led workshops on Python, feature engineering, predictive modeling and visualization with industry use cases.

03 Selected Projects

SaaS, Live

Document Intelligence SaaS

Production-ready SaaS built with Flask and the Claude Vision API. Extracts structured data from scanned invoices, generates pivot-table Excel exports and serves a bilingual TR/EN dashboard with PII masking and KVKK compliance.

FlaskClaude VisionExcel Automation
RAG, Live

Book-Based RAG Chatbot

Retrieval-Augmented Generation chatbot for the book Megapik Yeniden. Enables contextual semantic querying of a full-length book, deployed as a live web application.

Gemini APIChromaDBFastAPI
Open Source

Azure OCR API

Scalable RESTful API that automates text extraction from images and documents, supporting digitalization workflows and structured data processing.

Azure Computer VisionFastAPI
Speech AI

Speech-to-Text Transcription App

Web app that transcribes audio and video files up to 500MB into TXT, SRT and JSON formats, with an integrated mini-game to engage users during processing. Designed for SaaS deployment.

FastAPIOpenAI Whisper
Computer Vision

Quality Control Pipeline

Image-based defect detection and packaging inspection system for a manufacturing client (Dardanel), with annotated outputs designed for non-technical QC operators.

FastAPIClaude Vision
Forecasting

Retail Demand Forecasting

Store-level forecasting system over 553K rows for Cevher Wheel, delivering trend analysis, seasonal patterns and actionable inventory recommendations for management.

LightGBMXGBoostRandom Forest
Automation

Customer Complaint Automation

End-to-end automated workflow for Chef Seasons that collects product complaints from multiple channels and triggers personalized response emails, cutting manual processing time significantly.

SkystudioAPI Orchestration
Accessibility

Text-to-Speech Tool

Python-based text-to-speech conversion tool enabling automated MP3 audio generation from text inputs for content and accessibility workflows.

PythongTTS
In Design · Coming Soon

More projects on the way

New GenAI products currently on the drawing board:

  • Automated video generation for real-estate listings & ads
  • AI-driven product promo & marketing video pipelines
  • Multi-agent content studio for short-form social media
GenAIVideoAutomation

04 Skills

Generative AI & LLMs

RAG PipelinesMulti-Agent SystemsPrompt Engineering Function CallingEmbedding OptimizationVector Databases

Programming & APIs

PythonSQLFastAPIREST APIsGitAPI Orchestration

Data & ML Stack

Scikit-learnTensorFlowPyTorchNLPPandasNumPy

Visualization

Power BIMatplotlibSeabornPlotlyDashboard Design

Cloud & Platforms

Microsoft AzureAzure OpenAIGCPDockerRenderSupabase

Automation & Low-Code

n8nPower AutomateZapierSkystudioWorkflow Orchestration

05 Education & Certifications

Education

Jan 2025 to Present

M.Sc. in Management Information Systems

Sakarya University, Business Institute

Thesis: language model training and fine-tuning for domain-specific NLP applications.

2006 to 2011

B.Sc. in Physical Education and Sports Teaching

Hacettepe University, Faculty of Sport Sciences

Certifications & Training

Plus Miuul course certificates in Python, SQL, Machine Learning, Feature Engineering, NLP, Recommendation Systems and CRM Analytics.

06 Get in Touch

Whether it's a GenAI initiative, an analytics challenge or an AI training need, I'd be happy to talk about how we can work together.

hincalgunal@gmail.com
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