Summary
I started my career as a systems engineer in telecommunications (5G). I then transitioned to software engineering roles, and recently ML. My interests include software systems, machine learning, and generative AI. More generally, I love technology and I'm always eager to learn new technical skills.
My hobbies include all kinds of puzzles, reading, camping, and board games.
Recent Professional Projects
In reverse chronological order:
A chat bot that helps our customers and partners with managing their storage infrastructure. I am one of the lead developers driving the design and development of multiple agents and components of the project. Blog Post.
I worked on media safety team where we ensure generated images are safe for users. I tackled the problem from both ML perspective (such as building safety classifier models) as well as software systems perspective.
I joined a research group at FAIR where I contributed to Make-A-Video: a text to video generation research project. I developed large-scale training dataset curation pipelines for videos from both infrastructure as well as ML aspects. I was then moved to the new Meta Gen AI group (media safety project above).
Experience and Education
- Staff Software Engineer, Pure Storage (2024 - Present)
- Senior Software Engineer, Meta (2020 - 2024)
- Senior Systems Engineer, Qualcomm (2016 - 2020)
- PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara (2011 - 2016)
- B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey (2006 - 2011)