Deniz Turkcapar
Software Engineer - Generative AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDeniz Turkcapar is a software engineer specializing in generative AI with eight years of experience building search, recommendation, and voice systems at scale. Currently at Netflix, she leads work on GenAI Search after shaping AI search platforms and core indexing/query pipelines at Salesforce where she served as backend tech lead and won consecutive org-wide AI hackathons. Her background blends applied research—first-author work on graph-theoretic retrieval problems from University of Chicago—with hands-on systems engineering across Kafka, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure. She has a track record of delivering 0-to-1 features in B2B search products and optimizing streaming systems to reduce broker load by 43%. Active in mentorship and diversity initiatives, she served as Global VP of Women in Tech at Salesforce and joined Pear VC’s highly selective Female Founders AI cohort. Pragmatic and research-savvy, Deniz bridges algorithmic innovation and production-grade engineering to improve search relevance and efficiency.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Üsküdar Amerikan Lisesi / Üsküdar American AcademyBachelor's degree Economics Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Economics Computer Science at University of ChicagoTED Ankara Koleji
Github Skills (7)
spellchecker6
javascript4
cli3
redis3
react2
nodejs2
mongodb2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
denizturkcapar/denizturkcapar.github.io
Jul 2019 - Sep 2023
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
denizturkcapar/Quantifying-Uncertainty-Aggregate-Queries
Apr 2020 - Sep 2023
Contributions:70 pushes in 3 years 4 months
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