Abdullah Cavdar
Co-Founder & CEO at Permify
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAbdullah Cavdar is an engineer-turned-founder with 12 years building high-scale data and ML systems, now leading Knowly as Co-Founder & CEO to bring AI-native intelligence to FMCG/CPG commercial teams. He previously led real-time data infrastructure and ML/AI initiatives at Twitter and Udemy, designing cross-cloud stream pipelines and custom analytics storage that powered real-time insights and downstream ML. Abdullah blends deep academic training (MS and PhD-level work in informatics and information systems) with hands-on product and startup experience, having co-founded multiple companies and run engineering teams from early-stage products to production-grade platforms. He’s an active angel investor and advisor in data- and security-focused startups, reflecting a consistent focus on making messy enterprise data trustworthy and actionable. Notably, his career emphasis is on automating decision-grade intelligence—turning fragmented commercial signals into repeatable revenue impact.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Engineering, Bachelor Computer Engineering at Hacettepe UniversityPh.D. Information Systems, Ph.D. Information Systems at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
Turkish, English
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Github Skills (4)
scoring6
spark-ml4
spark2
inference2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
accavdar/DjangoBestPractices
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:23 commits in 5 days
accavdar/IoTAndGoogle
Nov 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:11 commits, 1 push in 1 month
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