# Batuhan Caniberk

Computer science student at TU Berlin, focused on AI and machine learning, who likes building things people actually use.
Founder of Glovio AI, an iOS boxing coach that analyses your technique on the device and coaches you in a chat; sharing the build on social media brought 30 million views in one month and more than 500 people on the waitlist.
Also designing and building a multilingual website for a Berlin primary school, pro bono.
At hackathons in autumn 2026: first place at Claude Impact Lab with ReacDetect (Shift Happens), second place at the Tech Europe Agentic AI Hack Zurich with Orb Agent, and at distil labs News Gate, a 0.8B model that beat its own teacher at reading stock headlines.
Outside of code he swims, boxes, runs and lifts, and he speaks German, Turkish and English.

## CV

### Education

- Since Oct 2023: Technische Universität Berlin, B.Sc. Computer Science, focus on AI and machine learning.
- 2017–2023: Georg-Büchner-Gymnasium, Berlin, Abitur, with the Latinum.

### Projects and hackathons

- Since 2025: Glovio AI, founder and developer of an iOS boxing coach. On-device pose estimation that analyses boxing technique in real time, and an AI coaching chat. 30 million views in one month on social media, 500+ waitlist sign-ups. [glovioai.com](https://glovioai.com)
- Nov 2026: Claude Impact Lab Berlin, first place with ReacDetect (Shift Happens), team of three. An open neuroscience toolbox that tests its own analysis methods before judging the data. He built the data loader and two of the four analysis methods, validated on 8 rat recordings. [GitHub](https://github.com/BatuCani/shift-happens), [App](https://batucani.github.io/shift-happens/app/)
- Oct 2026: Tech Europe Agentic AI Hack Zurich, sponsored by Google DeepMind, second place with Orb Agent, team of four. A one-day iPhone voice assistant for older people: one photo and one sentence become a spoken answer with cards. [GitHub](https://github.com/Orb-agent/micro-intent)
- Sep 2026: Distil Labs Hack, Berlin, built News Gate, a fine-tuned financial news classifier. Qwen3.5-0.8B fine-tuned with LoRA to sort stock headlines by event type: 90.5% exact match on 400 held-out headlines, against 79.3% for its GLM 5.3 teacher and 55.8% for the base model. [GitHub](https://github.com/BatuCani/pairs-signal)
- Since 2026: Fichtelgebirge-Grundschule, Berlin, designer and developer of the school website, pro bono. A Berlin primary school's multilingual website, launching soon.

### Certification

- Oct 2026: Nebius Academy, Nebius Agentic AI Builder Certification. Agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, fine-tuning and tool integration on Nebius Token Factory. [Verify on Credly](https://www.credly.com/badges/43c96886-2d79-4b15-a602-fd6a80d252db/public_url)

### Experience

- Oct 2025–Feb 2026: FaSTTuBe, the Formula Student team of TU Berlin, social media. Ran the Instagram content strategy for the team channel, around 14,000 followers.
- Feb–May 2024: Zalando Outlet Store, Berlin, sales associate.
- Apr–Jul 2023: SG Neukölln, Berlin, trainer.

### Skills

- AI and ML: LLM APIs, AI agents with tool use and MCP, RAG, LoRA fine-tuning and evaluation, PyTorch, Hugging Face
- Building: SwiftUI, React, Next.js, PostgreSQL (Supabase)
- Programming: Python, TypeScript, Swift, Java, C, SQL
- Tools: Git, Docker, Xcode, Vercel, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex

- Languages: German (native), Turkish (native), English (C2), Spanish (A2), Latin (Latinum)
- Sport: Competitive swimming, boxing, running, strength training

## Projects

- [Glovio AI](/projects/glovio-ai.md): An iOS boxing coach with on-device technique analysis and an AI coaching chat.
- [Shift Happens](/projects/shift-happens.md): ReacDetect, a sleep-reactivation toolbox for calcium imaging that knows when not to trust itself.
- [Orb Agent](/projects/orb-agent.md): An iPhone voice assistant for older people. Show a screen, say one sentence, and get a spoken answer with a few cards.
- [News Gate](/projects/news-gate.md): A fine-tuned 0.8B model that reads a stock headline, names the event type and decides whether it is a real shock or just noise.
- [Fichtelgebirge-Grundschule](/projects/fichtelgebirge-grundschule.md): A multilingual website for a Berlin primary school, designed and built pro bono.

## Photos

5 photos he took himself, at /photos.

## Shelf

Seventeen books from Batu's shelf at /shelf, in one pile from top to bottom, each with a short summary of the book.

## Contact

- Email: caniberk.b@gmx.de
- GitHub: https://github.com/BatuCani
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/batuhan-caniberk-8b51292a1