Gökhan Çiflikli is a Principal AI Engineer and computational social scientist with 17 years in tech, blending hands-on NLP and ML engineering with strategic leadership in Data & AI. He builds production ML systems (from ingestion pipelines to model deployment) while also shaping product roadmaps, company OKRs and scaling data organisations, most recently driving wellbeing intelligence at Healf. His background spans academia and industry—from PhD research in computational social science and human-in-the-loop NLP at Uppsala and LSE to leadership roles at Attest, Superside and fractional VP stints—so he comfortably toggles between four-pane coding sessions and executive decision-making. He has a track record of shipping practical AI products such as actuarial and ingestion agents and leading open-source projects like the quanteda web app for an NLP community. Known for hiring and developing high-performing cross-functional teams, he intentionally fosters experimentation and data-driven cultures that convert research into revenue.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Economics, BSc Economics at Kocaeli University
London School of Economics and Political Science
MSc Conflict Research, MSc Conflict Research at Uppsala University
Contributions:24 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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