Bugra Akyildiz
Senior Engineering Manager, Machine Learning at Facebook
New York, United States
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Top SchoolBugra Akyildiz is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling search, recommendation, and machine learning systems across high‑traffic consumer products. Currently a Senior Engineering Manager for Machine Learning at Facebook, he previously led large search engineering teams at Walmart Labs and shipped measurable personalization and recommendation gains at Jet.com and Hinge. His background spans ML research (NMF variants, topic models, NLP classifiers) to pragmatic production engineering—Kafka pipelines, .NET Core microservices, and real‑time recommendation APIs—reflecting a rare blend of algorithmic depth and operational rigor. Based in New York, he’s known for rearchitecting query understanding and RetailGraph approaches that unlocked novel search experiences, and for standardizing memory‑efficient service deployments.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bilkent University
English, Turkish, Spanish
Github Skills (71)
python10
deep-learning10
gpu10
gpu-acceleration10
numpy10
neural-network10
tensor10
trend10
autograd10
machine-learning10
tensorflow-model9
pymssql9
filtering9
computer-vision9
cpp9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bugra/l1
Jul 2015 - Dec 2022
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Contributions:50 commits, 49 PRs, 55 pushes in 7 years 5 months
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bugra/pydata-seattle-2015
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:26 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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