Blogs | Serhan Telatar

Computer Vision

March 2026 ⏱ 8 min read Featured

Building a Real-Time Vehicle Tracking System with YOLOv8 and SORT

A step-by-step guide to building an end-to-end ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) system. We'll cover multi-stage detection with YOLOv8, integrating the SORT tracking algorithm for persistent vehicle IDs, and using SciPy linear interpolation to handle occlusions with 100% data continuity.

Deep Learning

Feb 2026 ⏱ 10 min read

Fine-Tuning Llama 3.2 Vision with LoRA on a Budget GPU

How to cut GPU memory usage by 40% when fine-tuning large vision-language models using Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) and 16-bit quantization. Practical tips for running Llama 3.2 and Qwen 2.5-VL on mid-range hardware.

Reinforcement Learning

Jan 2026 ⏱ 12 min read

Teaching a DQN to Play "The World's Hardest Game" via WebSockets

Deep dive into building a hybrid environment for RL training: a real-time browser simulation sending state data to PyTorch via WebSockets at 60FPS, with Experience Replay and a novel Euclidean reward shaping function that cuts training time by 35%.

Tutorials

Dec 2024 ⏱ 7 min read

From Raw Data to AUC 0.88: ML Pipeline for Credit Default Prediction

Walk through an end-to-end machine learning pipeline for credit risk — from data cleaning and feature engineering on 100K+ records to grid-search optimized Random Forest and Gradient Boosting models evaluated with AUC-ROC.

Career

Nov 2024 ⏱ 5 min read

Landing Your First ML Engineering Role: Lessons from 3 Companies

Practical takeaways from my journeys at BNP Paribas TEB, Wibto, and Inovako — what hiring managers actually look for, how to build a strong portfolio, and the skills that matter most for junior ML engineers in 2025.