Alper Balbay
Founding Engineer at Freya (YC S25)
Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
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Top SchoolAlper Balbay is a Founding Engineer with eight years of applied ML and research experience, currently building at Freya (YC S25) after leading multimodal and agentic research at MotionShark. He combines a strong mathematics background from Hacettepe University with hands-on model engineering—designing custom diffusion and visual grounding architectures, fine-tuning ASR, and running large-scale training and inference pipelines. Alper has shipped production ML systems across cloud platforms, built data curation and synthetic-data pipelines, and implemented LLM-to-MoE upcycling methods while contributing to Cohere projects. He also has practical breadth in CV (YOLO, segmentation), LLM agent stacks (LangChain, Llama2), and tooling (FastAPI, Ray, NVIDIA Riva), and publishes and shares reproducible work on GitHub and Kaggle. Notably, his profile reflects a research-first mindset: seeking deeper mathematical study while translating advanced papers into deployable systems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics, 3.21/4, Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics, 3.21/4 at Hacettepe Üniversitesi
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Github Skills (48)
json10
fastapi10
convolutional-neural-networks10
python10
json-schema10
async10
swagger10
asyncio10
redoc10
swagger-ui10
api10
rest10
webapp10
starlette10
pydantic10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alperiox/alperiox
Oct 2020 - Jun 2025
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
alperiox/DL-DS-ML
May 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:43 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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