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 (13)
nlp10
large-language-models10
haystack10
python10
natural-language-processing10
generative-ai9
rest-api9
transformers9
machine-learning8
retrieval-augmented-generation8
openapi7
documentation7
co7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
deepset-ai/haystack
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Open-source AI orchestration framework for building context-engineered, production-ready LLM applications. Design modular pipelines and agent workflows with explicit control over retrieval, routing, memory, and generation. Built for scalable agents, RAG, multimodal applications, semantic search, and conversational systems.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:39 reviews, 7 commits, 49 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.
aillmmultimodalorchestration-frameworksemantic-search
Hipo/hipo-exceptions-js
Nov 2019 - Dec 2020
JavaScript client for parsing the `hipo-drf-exceptions`
Contributions:4 releases, 7 reviews, 11 commits in 1 year 1 month
javascriptparsing
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