David Yenicelik
Founder & CEO at Stealth Startup in AI & Crypto
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolDavid Yenicelik is a founder and CEO with a decade of experience building AI-first products at the intersection of machine learning, data infrastructure, and crypto. He co-founded Skilllab, an award-winning platform that gamified career transitions and scaled recommender systems to millions of users, earning a ~$1M Google AI Impact grant for its social impact. A hands-on researcher and engineer, he has worked on LLMs and multimodal models since 2018—publishing on meaning in representations and pretraining/fine-tuning transformers at Baidu Research while scaling embeddings to trillion-document problems. He’s launched multiple startups (and learned from several early failures), built MEV and yield-farming systems, and raised a $2M pre-seed for his current stealth AI+crypto venture. Trained at ETH Zürich and coding since age 11, he combines deep math and systems instincts with product pragmatism. Outside work he studies history and state theory, loves good food, and practices Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
IB Diploma Programme, IB Diploma Programme at Munich International School e.V.German System until 10th grade then one year of IB Diploma Programme, German System until 10th grade then one year of IB Diploma Programme at The Private School of the German Embassy in AnkaraMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at ETH Zürich
English, Turkish, German, French
Stackoverflow
2,055reputation
254kreached
18answers
65questions
Github Skills (200)
language-model10
testing10
code-generation10
google-maps10
api10
neural-network10
nlp10
data-science10
quality-assurance10
csharp-code10
deep-neural-networks10
bert10
speech-recognition10
python10
ml10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
yenicelik/abiwiki
Nov 2015 - Jul 2022
Contributions:3 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
yenicelik/web3-proxy
Jan 2023 - Jun 2023
quick and dirty proxy for ethereum nodes (or similar)
Contributions:4 reviews, 10 PRs, 200 pushes in 5 months
proxysimilarethereumnodesdirty
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