Besir Kurtulmus
Senior Software Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBesir Kurtulmus is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with 11 years of experience building scalable machine learning platforms and applied ML systems across startups and large enterprises. He has led ML platform and infrastructure efforts at Reddit, Starbucks, Stash, Algorithmia (acquired by DataRobot), and DataRobot, focusing on productionizing NLP, word embeddings, and petabyte-scale personalization pipelines. Proficient in Python, R, Java, and Bash, he blends hands-on model work (TensorFlow, Keras, TensorRT) with platform engineering (Kubernetes, Docker) to move research into robust services. Known for tackling compute and infrastructure challenges, he’s comfortable optimizing GPU stacks and inference paths as well as orchestration for large-scale deployments. A former research assistant with a background in linear algebra and data visualizations, he brings both theoretical grounding and practical experience in turning ML research into reliable production systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at İstanbul Şehir University
English, Turkish
Stackoverflow
198reputation
6kreached
1answer
4questions
Github Skills (159)
valence10
reasoner10
python10
feature-extraction10
pyaudioanalysis10
mapreduce10
python-client10
deep-learning10
caffe10
signal-processing10
audio10
api10
hadoop-mapreduce10
sentiment-classification10
tensorflow10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
algorithmiaio/danku
Dec 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:233 commits, 9 pushes, 33 comments in 6 months
algorithmiaio/deepfilter-training
Nov 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:39 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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