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Yakup B.

Data Center Infrastructure Design Engineer /Electrical Engineer

Data Center Electrical Design | AI Infrastructure | 10+ Years I design the power backbone of the AI era, from 10 MW single building data centers to 450 MW phased campuses. WHAT I DO ✅ AI/HPC infrastructure design: NVIDIA GB200/GB300 NVL72 deployments, high density GPU racks up to 140 kW, POD level power architecture, liquid cooling (DLC) coordination ✅ Electrical concept and Basis of Design: SLDs, MV/LV distribution, generator, transformer and UPS sizing ✅ Redundancy strategies: N+1, block redundant and distributed architectures, Uptime Tier III/IV alignment ✅ Master planning and block fit: site capacity studies, phased campus layouts, utility coordination ✅ Feasibility and retrofit: conversion of existing buildings into data centers, capacity optimization for live facilities SELECTED EXPERIENCE 450 MW phased AI campus: master planning and electrical strategy (US) 70 MW AI data center: full electrical concept, SLD development and power flow verification 120 MW (Ashburn, VA) and 140 MW (Houston, TX) hyperscale campus designs GPU PODs above 1.2 MW IT for AI training clusters STANDARDS AND TOOLS Uptime Institute • IEEE • BICSI 002 • ASHRAE • NEC (NFPA 70) • TIA-942 AutoCAD / AutoCAD Electrical, engineering calculation sheets, SketchUp Planning an AI factory, expanding a campus, or converting an existing building? Let's talk. I deliver documentation your contractors and utilities can actually build from.

🇹🇷Istanbul, Turkey$75/hr100% JSS4.88 (42)Since Aug 2020

Earnings and projects

MRR
$6.8k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#3,041 / 412k
🇹🇷Country#39 / 3,515
Revenue, last 30 days
$21k

Last 6 months: $41k

World#237 / 412k
🇹🇷Country#3 / 3,515
Total earnings
$145k

Billed in all: $148k

World#24,788 / 412k
🇹🇷Country#179 / 3,515
Per project
$1.6k

$3.4k in the last 6 months

World#91,380 / 412k
🇹🇷Country#750 / 3,515
Projects, last 6 months
12

Across 14 contracts

64% fixed36% hourly
World#14,023 / 412k
🇹🇷Country#101 / 3,515
Projects in all
91

Across 102 contracts

70% fixed30% hourly
World#31,364 / 412k
🇹🇷Country#176 / 3,515

Earnings, last 30 days

$148k+$21.1k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$120k$140k$160kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

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