Who is Halide Yılmaz?
Hello, I'm Halide Yılmaz. I'm a graduate of METU (Middle East Technical University) Computer Engineering, and I've spent years working in computing and artificial intelligence; I'm an engineer who loves turning complex systems into simple, working products. Today, under the roof of EcoFluxion Teknoloji A.Ş., of which I'm a co-founder, I build AI products focused on Turkish.
“Good engineering doesn't make noise; it quietly does its job. And that's exactly what I'm after — building a product that gets opened every day and is trusted.”
In brief
- Who: Computing and AI engineer, co-founder.
- Education: METU (Middle East Technical University) Computer Engineering.
- What I do: I design system architecture and build products with large language models and RAG architectures.
- Where: Ankara, METU Technopark.
- Company: EcoFluxion Teknoloji A.Ş. — co-founder.
- The product I left my mark on: İçtiHub, an AI platform for legal professionals.
From METU to engineering
My story began on the benches of METU Computer Engineering, chasing after a single question: how much can a well-designed system ease a person's work? While I was learning algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems at school, the same question was always on my mind — how do I turn these into something that actually solves someone's problem in real life?
After graduating, I spent years in the depths of engineering. I built systems that scaled, shouldered the weight of architectural decisions, assembled teams and grew them. Over time my interest shifted toward natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence; because the truly hard problem was there: teaching machines to genuinely understand language and to generate it reliably. This long engineering background gave me a habit — solid foundations first, shiny features later.
How the İçtiHub idea was born
We brought EcoFluxion to life in 2024, at Ankara METU Technopark, together with my co-founder İsmail Tarık Şenkal. Our starting point was clear: to build reliable, genuinely useful products that truly understand Turkish. EcoFluxion is not a “consultancy” house; it's an R&D company that builds its own products.
Playing a leading role in the birth of the İçtiHub idea is a special story for me. When I saw the immense burden of text that the legal world carries, and how laborious it is to find “the right information” within that text, I thought this was precisely a problem that AI should solve. The question I asked while building the product's first architecture was this: how do we bring case-law research, document analysis, and legal question-and-answer — the things that take up a lawyer's hours — together into a single reliable assistant? İçtiHub's skeleton was born from the answer to that question.
Today, behind İçtiHub stands EcoFluxion's own language model, fine-tuned for the Turkish legal language. Because answers must be grounded in real documents and must not “make things up,” we placed RAG architecture at the heart of the product — this was the decision I cared about most in the product's architectural design.
What does she believe in?
There are a few core principles that guide my work:
- Solid engineering is the foundation of everything. A properly designed system architecture makes every feature built upon it stronger and longer-lasting.
- Turkish deserves the AI it's owed. Most large language models are designed around English; everyone who speaks Turkish deserves to access the same quality in their native language.
- Accuracy is non-negotiable. Especially in fields like law, systems that ground their answers in real documents are essential.
- Research must turn into a product. A prototype is valuable; but the real value lies in turning it into a product that thousands of people use with confidence.
In short: I use my engineering foundation from METU, the experience years have given me, and my product vision to bring Turkish AI down to real life. If you'd like to dig deeper, you can continue with the articles on what EcoFluxion is or how large language models work.