Erdi Calli is a founder and machine learning leader with 14 years of experience building production-grade AI systems, from fraud detection with graph neural networks at Adyen to a PhD in deep learning for medical imaging. He blends hands-on software engineering (Python, PyTorch/TensorFlow, Spark, Airflow, AWS) with product-minded leadership, having led cross-functional teams, launched merchant-facing products, and established scalable data pipelines and CI/CD practices. His background spans startups and enterprise fintech, plus founding a fashion-tech venture tackling a €145B problem, demonstrating entrepreneurial risk-taking alongside technical depth. Notably, he turned research into deployable systems—creating fully automated, microservice-based data collection architectures during his PhD—and has a formal grounding in innovation from HEC Paris. Pragmatic and creative, he excels at delegation, decision-making, and moving models from prototype to production in distributed, cloud-native environments.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Deep Learning for Medical Imaging, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Deep Learning for Medical Imaging at Radboud University
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematical Engineering at Işık Üniversitesi
MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at HEC Paris
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