Ekrem BAL
Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer at Chainway Labs
Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolEkrem BAL is a software engineer and co-founder with 8 years of experience blending algorithmic depth and product-focused engineering as Chief Scientific Officer at Chainway Labs. A 2019 IOI silver medalist, he has strong competitive programming and teaching credentials from national IOI camps and algorithm training programs, which inform his pragmatic approach to complex system design. He has built data-intensive pipelines and estimators working with multi-terabyte datasets, and shipped NLP and QA products like answie.com using modern web stacks. Comfortable across research, prototyping and production, he pairs deep algorithmic expertise with hands-on development in Python and frontend technologies. Based in Istanbul with an exchange stint at UT Austin, he brings a startup mindset and outdoor-adventure resilience—rock climbing and mountaineering influence his risk-calibrated leadership.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Semester Computer Engineering, Exchange Semester Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi University
Turkish, English
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Github Skills (32)
recursive10
secp256k19
sat-solver9
base589
homotopy-type-theory8
data-structures8
language-bindings8
cryptography8
laravel8
zkp7
ethereum6
blockchain6
bitcoin6
ipfs6
algorithms6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
chainwayxyz/risc0-to-bitvm2
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:10 reviews, 13 PRs, 37 pushes in 9 months
ekrembal/task-dapp
Mar 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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