Bulent Altan
Founding Partner at Yttrium
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBulent Altan is a seasoned aerospace and technology executive with 11 years of senior leadership experience and a career spanning SpaceX, Airbus, and multiple space-focused ventures, now a founding partner at Alpine Space Ventures. He blends hands-on engineering roots—MS in Aeronautics/Astronautics from Stanford and a Diplom in Computer Science from TUM—with operator experience as former CEO and VP-level avionics lead responsible for large multidisciplinary teams and flight-critical systems. Bulent also contributes to ML engineering in open source, notably optimizing CUDA kernels for the popular ChatRWKV project to accelerate RWKV-based language models. Known for moving between deep technical implementation and strategic company-building, he advises startups like Yttrium and has a track record of commercializing complex aerospace technologies. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic innovator who favors measurable performance gains, whether in flight hardware or ML kernels.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl. Inf. Computer Science, Dipl. Inf. Computer Science at Technical University of MunichMaster of Science Aeronautics/Astronautics, Master of Science Aeronautics/Astronautics at Stanford University
German, English, Turkish
Github Skills (9)
cuda10
pytorch10
rnn-model10
language-model10
n10
python9
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
chatbot8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
BlinkDL/ChatRWKV
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
ChatRWKV is like ChatGPT but powered by RWKV (100% RNN) language model, and open source.
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Bulent focused on optimizing the `chatrwkv` project, specifically targeting CUDA kernel implementations for improved performance. Their contributions include implementing and refining CUDA kernels for fp16i8 operations, which involved significant code changes within the CUDA and Python model files. The user's work also demonstrates expertise in PyTorch and related optimizations for RWKV models.
pytorchnlplanguage-modelrnnrnn-language-model
roastduck/FreeTensor
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
A language and compiler for irregular tensor programs.
Contributions:237 reviews, 350 commits, 72 PRs in 1 year
code-generationjitautomatic-differentiationgpucompiler
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