Emrah Budur
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolEmrah Budur is a Software Development Engineer II based in Toronto with 11 years of experience building production-grade systems and applied NLU services. He blends academic rigor—as a PhD candidate and former Stanford visiting researcher in linguistics—with hands-on engineering at Amazon and a decade of progressive roles at Garanti BBVA Teknoloji, where he led research and deployment of Turkish-language NLU solutions. Emrah is skilled at translating state-of-the-art research into scalable services, evaluating vendor and patent landscapes, and mentoring through course facilitation and teaching assistant roles. Known for a curious, enduring mindset ("stays hungry and stays foolish"), he uniquely combines deep language understanding research with platform-independent software design to change how teams work at scale.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting PhD Researcher Linguistics, Visiting PhD Researcher Linguistics at Stanford UniversityMath & Science, Math & Science at Ankara Anadolu LisesiB.Sc Computer Engineering, B.Sc Computer Engineering at Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi University
English, French, Turkish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (62)
pytorch10
evaluation10
python10
data-science10
data-manipulation10
pandas10
machine-learning10
numpy10
alphabetical10
datasets10
manipulation10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
speech10
natural-language-processing10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
CS229proj/src
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:155 commits, 4 PRs, 156 pushes in 1 month
boun-tabi/NLI-TR
May 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:36 commits, 15 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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