Bilge Yücel
Senior Developer Relations Engineer
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolBilge Yücel is a Senior Developer Relations Engineer based in Berlin with 9 years of software experience and a specialized M.S. in Artificial Intelligence from KU Leuven. She has spent the last several years shaping adoption and developer experience for Haystack, an open-source AI orchestration framework, contributing backend fixes, API updates, and enhancements to its ConversationalAgent. Bilge blends hands-on engineering (bug fixes, dependency and model management) with public-facing DevRel work—tutorials, talks, hackathons, and community building across Europe and the US. Her background spans NLP research and frontend engineering, giving her a practical end-to-end view of building developer-friendly ML systems. Notably, she has helped run major community initiatives like Advent of Haystack and improved Haystack’s production readiness for RAG and conversational agent use cases. Curious and community-first, she enjoys turning complex AI tooling into clear, usable developer experiences.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree Artificial Intelligence at KU LeuvenBachelor's degree Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Engineering at Sabanci UniversityKabataş Erkek LisesiBachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Uppsala University
İngilizce, German
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Github Skills (12)
nlp10
large-language-models10
haystack10
python10
generative-ai9
rest-api9
transformers9
retrieval-augmented-generation8
machine-learning8
openapi7
co7
documentation7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
deepset-ai/haystack
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
AI orchestration framework to build customizable, production-ready LLM applications. Connect components (models, vector DBs, file converters) to pipelines or agents that can interact with your data. With advanced retrieval methods, it's best suited for building RAG, question answering, semantic search or conversational agent chatbots.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 7 commits, 33 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Bilge primarily focused on improving and maintaining the Haystack framework's backend functionalities. Their contributions include fixing bugs in documentation, updating the REST API schema, and addressing dependency issues related to metrics. They also played a significant role in enhancing the ConversationalAgent, adding tools, and implementing updates related to its functionality. Furthermore, the user removed old Cohere models and added aliases, indicating model management tasks.
pythonbertfinetuningproduction-readyhuggingface-transformers
deepset-ai/haystack-integrations
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
🚀 A list of Haystack Integrations, maintained by the community or deepset.
Contributions:124 reviews, 100 PRs, 112 pushes in 1 year 11 months
machine-learningnlp
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