Caglar Demir
Staff R&D Engineer at Synopsys Inc
Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolCaglar Demir is a Staff R&D Engineer and PhD-trained computer scientist with a decade of experience building research-driven software and leading cross-cultural engineering teams. He has published in top-tier conferences and been a core developer of open-source frameworks with over 100K downloads, demonstrating a practical knack for turning research into widely used tooling. His career spans academic research roles at Paderborn University, industry positions including Synopsys and SAP, and a brief founder-CTO stint, showing an ability to move between deep research and product delivery. Based in Paderborn, Germany, he collaborates regularly with large, diverse teams and brings both reproducible scientific rigor and hands-on software engineering to complex R&D problems. An interesting detail: alongside his academic work he builds production-grade Python packages (pip-installable) that bridge research and real-world developer adoption.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Paderborn UniversityMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Universität Paderborn
Turkish, English, German
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Github Skills (161)
python10
expressions10
gnn10
ontology10
semantic-web10
deep-learning10
gpu10
gemma10
owl10
gpu-acceleration10
acceleration10
semantics10
numpy10
scale10
knowledge-graph10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dice-group/Ontolearn
May 2020 - Oct 2022
OWL Class Expressions Learning in Python
Contributions:6 releases, 79 reviews, 337 commits in 2 years 5 months
library-softwarepythonowlstructuredmachinelearning
dice-group/owlapy
Nov 2023 - Apr 2025
OWL Engineering & Reasoning in Python
Contributions:4 releases, 19 reviews, 88 PRs in 1 year 5 months
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