OrbitMert Kanıbir · New York

Experience

Current work

Binghamton, New York

Student Builder Campus Leader

Amazon Web Services · Binghamton University

Amazon's campus representative at Binghamton across two semesters, charged with driving adoption of AWS Builder Center, Builder ID, and the AWS AI/ML learning ecosystem. The program targets 500+ Builder ID registrations and alias claims and has reached 1,000+ students through 30+ engagements: technical presentations, classroom outreach, tabling activations, student-organization partnerships, and digital campaigns. I map the 600+ AWS Skill Builder courses, hands-on labs, workshops, and technical challenges onto concrete use cases for computer science, engineering, and business students, and run the program end to end: outreach strategy, event logistics, peer education, social channels, engagement tracking, and recurring performance reporting against participation data and student feedback.

1,000+
students reached
500+
Builder ID target
30+
campus engagements
600+
Skill Builder courses surfaced
  • AWS Builder Center
  • AWS Builder ID
  • AWS Skill Builder
  • Cloud computing
  • AI/ML curriculum
  • Technical presentations
  • Engagement analytics
  • Performance reporting

Community Assistant

Binghamton University · Hinman College

Responsible for 60+ residents of Roosevelt Hall in Hinman College across a full academic year. The role spans program design and delivery, from back-to-school workshops to recurring community events, referral of residents to campus resources, residence policy enforcement, incident documentation, and first response in crisis situations. Operationally it is a standing exercise in communication, escalation judgment, and conflict resolution.

60+
residents supported
14
months on duty
  • Residential operations
  • Program design
  • Peer mentorship
  • Policy enforcement
  • Incident response
  • Conflict resolution

Earlier work

2022 to 2026

Head of Artificial Intelligence

Mascatello AI Solutions · STEAM Pilots

Owned the vision, architecture, and deployment of AI systems for MAIS and its sister nonprofit, STEAM Pilots, over 14 months. Directed the R&D behind Learning Ladder AI: Gemini-driven learning flows with adaptive difficulty logic, Python services in Dockerized environments, and React and Tailwind interfaces, with repository and QA workflows established from scratch. Set the technical roadmap across both organizations, managed a multidisciplinary team spanning robotics, data science, and curriculum, and translated current AI research into tools for workforce development, STEM programs, competitions, and outreach.

2
organizations served
14
months as Head of AI
  • Gemini
  • Vertex AI
  • LLM integration
  • Adaptive learning systems
  • Python
  • React
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Docker
  • GitHub
  • QA workflows
  • Technical roadmap
  • Team leadership

Intern, then Senior Technologist & Intern Manager

Mascatello AI Solutions

Central to the Career Advancement Package, an AI education initiative for American workforce development, from its first months: shaped its direction, led outreach, and secured donations and partnerships, including direct support from Binghamton University. Built and maintained the course platform and its structured learning tracks across AI and STEM, ran the internal systems (Slack automations, SEO, blog, communication workflows), and researched AI and robotics with Google Vertex AI, Databot, NotebookLM, and curated datasets. Facilitated AI courses for business professionals and earned three industry certifications through the QA.com partnership. Promoted in June 2025 to Senior Technologist and Intern Manager, taking over platform architecture and the onboarding, task structure, and day-to-day management of the intern team.

2
roles in 12 months
3
certifications earned
  • Vertex AI
  • Google NotebookLM
  • Databot
  • Course platform development
  • Slack automation
  • SEO
  • Intern management
  • Outreach
  • AI instruction

Watson Peer Advisor & Study Hall Facilitator

Binghamton Enrichment Program · Educational Opportunity Program

Two summers with the Binghamton Enrichment Program, the bridge program for students entering through the Educational Opportunity Program. As Watson Peer Advisor I mentored the incoming Watson College cohort through daily required study sessions, fielded academic and campus questions, and maintained contact with every student in the cohort. As Study Hall Facilitator I oversaw evening study hours five nights a week, Sunday through Thursday, for 150+ students: attendance tracking, policy enforcement, and academic support. Returned in 2026 with a second year of program knowledge and as a member of the EOP community myself.

150+
students in study hall
5
nights a week
2
summers
6
months in total
  • Peer advising
  • Mentorship
  • Study facilitation
  • Attendance systems
  • Program operations
  • Watson College
  • EOP

Undergraduate Researcher

Binghamton University · First-Year Research Immersion

Member of the Image and Acoustic Signal Analysis stream of the First-Year Research Immersion program at Watson College. The research explored AI-driven translation of American Sign Language and produced YANA, a prototype assistant that reads ASL gestures in real time and answers in ASL. Over three semesters I designed and tested the full recognition-and-response pipeline: OpenPose 2D skeletal keypoint extraction from live video, convolutional neural networks for gesture classification, pose estimation for temporal structure, and generative video and animation pipelines for the signed response, on a synthesis of 50+ peer-reviewed papers.

3
semesters
50+
papers synthesized
5
pipeline stages
17
months of research
  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • OpenCV
  • OpenPose
  • CNNs
  • Pose estimation
  • Generative video
  • Animation pipelines
  • Wan 2.2
  • ASL

Co-Founder & CEO

NAVINDOOR · New York

Led a two-founder venture building an indoor navigation system for blind and low-vision users over 28 months, from concept through prototype. The system design combined Bluetooth LE beacon positioning, spatial audio guidance, and computer vision research for the indoor spaces GPS cannot reach. Refined and validated the concept with industry professionals, Mission 3A, Virtual Enterprises, and competition judges; the work took first place at the VE Tech Talk Day and was covered by the Bronx Times. Age, funding, and timing kept it from market. The discipline of turning an idea into a structured venture stayed.

28
months
1st
place, VE Tech Talk Day
  • Bluetooth LE beacons
  • Spatial audio
  • Computer vision
  • Accessibility
  • Product research
  • Venture leadership

Curriculum Development Intern

Virtual Enterprises International · Brooklyn

Reworked the content architecture of VE's learning platform, refined 200+ lessons across 7 courses, and automated the curriculum workflows behind them. Trained educators to integrate the platform into instruction and wrote the technical guidance for doing so. Hands-on web development on a live education platform alongside curriculum design and instructional delivery.

200+
lessons refined
7
courses
  • Education technology
  • Learning platform UX
  • Web development
  • Workflow automation
  • Content QA
  • Educator training

Independent work

Always in progress