Summary
Gokhan Egri is a founder and AI-focused engineer with nine years of experience building practical machine perception and agent tooling, now leading Brainbase Labs to enable AI in the workforce. He completed a PhD in Computer Science at Harvard where his research made machines see “slightly better,” and he brings that vision to high-fidelity agent environments and developer tooling. Prior startup experience as a co-founder at Leo and deep undergraduate engineering roots inform his product-first, research-grounded approach. Based in San Francisco, he remains hands-on—coding AI himself—and leans on a hacker ethos evident from tinkering with Emacs and legacy scripts in his GitHub notes. His background combines rigorous academic training (Bilkent, NUS exchange) with practical entrepreneurship, positioning him to bridge cutting-edge research and deployable systems. Quietly meticulous, he pairs a top academic record with a taste for low-level customization that surfaces in the tools he builds.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Scholar Development Program Graduate, Scholar Development Programme, 97.94/100, Scholar Development Program Graduate, Scholar Development Programme, 97.94/100 at TED Ankara Koleji
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Harvard University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 4.0 at Bilkent University
Exchange Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Exchange Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore
Turkish, English, German, Latin