Barış Özmen
Founder at Stealth Startup
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBarış Özmen is a founder and machine learning engineer with 10 years of experience building production-scale AI systems that match millions of LinkedIn members to jobs and power advanced search with generative models at Peruser AI. He combines deep research experience—from computational neuroscience and AutoML—to pragmatic productionization at LinkedIn and Meta, owning end-to-end model design, deployment, and cross-team launches. Notable strengths include recommender systems, GBDT and TensorFlow architectures, and translating complex ML research into measurable product impact on engagement and marketplace efficiency. Based in San Francisco, he iterates quickly as a startup founder, leveraging prior success in speeding AutoAugment-style augmentation and applying ML in bioinformatics for drug-discovery signals—an unusual blend of domain breadth that informs his product-focused AI work.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Izmir Fen LisesiExchange Studies Informatics, Exchange Studies Informatics at Technical University of MunichBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi University
German, English, Turkish
Github Skills (15)
data-augmentation10
robustness10
deep-learning9
pytorch9
zsh7
api-client7
openai-api4
artificial-intelligence4
openai3
oh-my-zsh3
langchain3
ai3
gemini3
google2
anthropic1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
barisozmen/deepaugment
Jan 2019 - May 2019
Discover augmentation strategies tailored for your dataset
Contributions:1 release, 302 commits, 4 PRs in 3 months
discoverrobustnessdeep-learningdatasettailored
barisozmen/system-design-resources
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 17 days
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