Can Ayter

Experience

Meta 2025 — Present

Linguistic Engineer 2026 — Present

Data Linguist 2025 — 2026

Full-time·via TEKsystems·📍 Chicago, IL·💻 Remote

NLPNMTPrompt EngineeringTurkishComputational LinguisticsSpeech AnalyticsAI

Self-employed 2015 — Present

Translator & Interpreter

Freelance·📍 Chicago, IL·🔄 Hybrid

Legal TranslationMedical TranslationSimultaneous InterpretationCopywriting

KACE Company 2019 — 2023

Linguist (Cleared)

Full-time·🧳 Travel

Forensic LinguisticsLocalizationPublic TrustTurkish

Fitness Formula Clubs 2015 — 2016

Fitness Specialist

Full-time·📍 Chicago, IL·🏢 On-site

Strength & ConditioningPersonal TrainingFitness Consulting

Indiana University 2013 — 2015

Graduate Assistant

Part-time·📍 Bloomington, IN·🏢 On-site

Research DesignData AnalysisUniversity Teaching

Renewa Club 2012 — 2013

Fitness Trainer

Part-time·📍 Ankara, Turkey·🏢 On-site

Fitness TrainingKinesiologyFitness Consulting

TÜRKSOY 2012

Research Intern

Internship·📍 Ankara, Turkey·🏢 On-site

Foreign Policy AnalysisInternational RelationsCopywriting

Education

🎓 Master's Degree

Indiana University 2013 — 2015

M.A. Linguistics (CEUS)

📍 Bloomington, IN·GPA 3.6

Historical LinguisticsTypologyComputational LinguisticsSLA

📜 Certificate

Northwestern University SPS 2023 — 2024

Data Science & Visualization

📍 Chicago, IL

PythonSQLNLPMachine LearningTableauCNN

✈️ Erasmus Exchange

Uppsala University 2010 — 2011

Linguistics & Philology

📍 Uppsala, Sweden

SwedishKaraimTurkic LinguisticsPhilology

🎓 Bachelor's Degree

Hacettepe University 2009 — 2013

B.A. Linguistics

📍 Ankara, Turkey·GPA 3.3

PhoneticsSyntaxSemanticsPsycholinguisticsSociolinguistics

Certifications

IFAA GmbH 2012

Personal Fitness Trainer (C-Lizenz)

Languages

Turkish Native

English Full professional

Swedish Professional working

Tatar Limited working

Uzbek Limited working

Karaim Elementary

Skills

Linguistics & Phonetics

Phonetics Phonology Acoustic Analysis Praat Forensic Linguistics Discourse Analysis Sociolinguistics Morphology Syntax Semantics Typology Historical Linguistics

NLP & AI

Natural Language Processing Large Language Models Machine Learning Neural Machine Translation Prompt Engineering Computational Linguistics Speech Analytics Text Analytics Data Annotation Convolutional Neural Networks

Programming

Python JavaScript HTML CSS VBA Scripting APIs JSON

Data & Analysis

NumPy Pandas Matplotlib Statistics Modeling Microsoft Excel Data Ethics

Databases

SQL PostgreSQL / pgAdmin MongoDB NoSQL Hadoop

Visualization & Tools

Tableau Leaflet.js