Alpay Ariyak
Staff Research Scientist at Together AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlpay Ariyak is a Staff Research Scientist at TogetherAI with four years of hands-on experience advancing post-training for LLMs and coding agents, currently leading efforts on overall intelligence and reasoning. He shipped state-of-the-art coding models (SWE Agent, DeepSWE, CoderForge-Preview, DeepCoder) and co-led the OpenChat workstream, blending research rigor with production-focused engineering. Previously he built serverless inference and post-training infrastructure at RunPod and trained multi-modal math models at EdLight, showing a rare mix of systems and model expertise. Based in San Francisco, he moves smoothly between experimental RL/NLP research and scalable deployment, and has a background at Worcester Polytechnic Institute including graduate research—hinting at a strong foundation in both theory and applied ML.
4 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Turkish, English, Russian
Github Skills (50)
pytorch10
language-model10
llama10
inference10
large-language-models10
tpu10
amd10
llm10
openai10
fine-tuning10
cuda10
transformer10
gpt10
transformers9
container-image9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
runpod/vllm-fork-for-sls-worker
Dec 2023 - Jul 2024
A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 68 pushes in 6 months
inference
alpayariyak/MRF-RL
May 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:83 commits, 65 pushes, 16 branches in 5 months
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