Imperatlas
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Applied AI · Heavy industry · İzmir, Türkiye
From diesel engines to AI.
For three and a half years I kept diesel and gas generator sets running as a field service technician at Borusan Cat. Now my focus is AI for heavy industry — field service, power generation and heavy equipment — using whatever fits the job, from frontier cloud models to fully offline systems on your own hardware.
- 3½ years
- on site with gensets
- 5 products
- built end to end
- Cloud + local
- any AI, in the right place
Who is Gökhan Çalkap?
Kadir Gökhan Çalkap is an applied AI specialist based in İzmir, Türkiye. After working as a field service technician on Caterpillar, Olympian and MWM generator sets at Borusan Cat, he now focuses on AI for industrial operations and develops apps and games under his studio, Calkap Labs.
Where I’m different
I learned on engines, not in a classroom.
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Field first.
Three and a half years on site with generator sets — Caterpillar, Olympian, MWM — often with a customer’s operation stopped and waiting. Read the symptoms, form a hypothesis, test it, don’t guess. I build AI the same way.
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Any AI, in the right place.
Frontier cloud models when they fit; open-weight models on your own machines when the data can’t leave the building. Agents, retrieval over private documents, image and 3D generation — I use what the job needs.
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From idea to a physical part.
SolidWorks and Fusion 360, AI 3D generation and years of 3D printing. Shapes I couldn’t model by hand I can now generate, print and hold.
AI for heavy industry
I know where the hours go on site.
Generator sets, construction machinery, heavy industry. I’ve done the work AI is supposed to help with, so I know which parts are worth automating — and what a technician will actually use.
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Service manual & fault-code assistant
Technicians ask in plain language on site. Answers come from your own manuals, service bulletins and past reports, with the source page shown.
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Service reports without the paperwork
Voice notes and photos from the job become a finished service report and checklist, in the format your customers already expect.
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AI that works offline
Models running on a laptop or a server inside your plant: no internet needed on site, and no data leaving the building.
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Engineering & CAD workflows
Automating drawing and cutting preparation. CutFlow, an AutoCAD plugin for laser-cutting shops, came out of this work.
Idea to part, offline
If it can be imagined, it can be printed.
My own workflow, running entirely on a laptop with no internet: from a sentence to a part I can hold.
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Idea
A sentence, a sketch or a need.
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Spec
A local LLM turns it into a precise description.
Qwen3.6 35B A3B - 03
Image
Concept renders, edited until they’re right.
Qwen Image 2.1 - 04
Four views
Front, side, top and perspective — the technical-drawing habit.
Qwen Image 2.1 - 05
3D model
Generated from the views and cleaned up.
TRELLIS + Pixal3D - 06
Print
Sliced and printed: a real part.
Ultimaker Cura + 3D printer
Rig: RTX 5070 Ti laptop GPU (12 GB) · Ryzen 9 9955HX · 32 GB DDR5 · Full setup →
Work
Built, shipped, running.
VocabWonder
A multilingual word-puzzle game that grows your vocabulary.
App Store
Ortam
A party word game for friends, played together on one phone.
App StoreCutFlow
An AutoCAD 2025/2026 plugin for laser-cutting shops. It merges hundreds of DXF/DWG parts, reads material, thickness and quantity from file names, labels every part and outputs a clean DXF ready for nesting.
Website coming soon
Fakültem
A decision platform for university applicants in Türkiye: base scores, rankings, comparisons and an AI advisor.
fakultem.comAll work in detail → · More games, apps and AI tools on the way at Calkap Labs
- 2026 —
Independent applied AI specialist
Full-time on applied AI, and building games, apps and AI tools under my studio, Calkap Labs.
- 2025
AI becomes the main focus
Open-source and local models, agents, retrieval over private documents, image and 3D generation. Programming since 2020.
- 2022–26
Field Service Technician, Borusan Cat
Caterpillar dealer. Preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, overhaul and commissioning of diesel and gas generator sets — Caterpillar, Olympian, MWM.
- 2020–22
Machine Program, İstanbul Gedik University
Full scholarship; graduated first in my department. Paper on an autonomous underwater welding and inspection vehicle (2022).
- 2019–20
MTU marine engines, Istanbul Naval Shipyard
Seven-month internship on the engines of naval ships.
- 2016–20
Ship Machinery, Piri Reis Maritime High School
Where it started: marine engines and machinery.
Notes
Writing it down.
- Coming soon
What field service taught me about putting AI to work
- Coming soon
Where AI actually fits in generator and heavy-equipment field service
- Coming soon
Offline from idea to printed part: text → image → four views → 3D → print
Contact
Working out where AI fits in your operation?
Full-time, part-time or project-based. Based in İzmir; open to Kocaeli, İstanbul and remote.
gokhan@calkaplabs.com or message me on LinkedIn