Hamdi Karakaya
Founder & CEO at CompanyDNA AI Inc.
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHamdi Karakaya is a founder and hands-on AI CTO with 12+ years of engineering leadership, currently building Cayra AI and co-leading CompanyDNA AI after scaling AR and consumer apps as CTO at Leo AR and MojiLaLa. He has led distributed teams of 50+ developers, secured venture funding, and taken multiple AI platforms from prototype to production with expertise in LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, LLaMA), RAG pipelines, evaluation frameworks (RAGAS, DeepEval) and parameter-efficient fine-tuning like LoRA/PEFT. Comfortable across cloud-native deployments on AWS and GCP, Hamdi also brings deep learning and computer vision chops from earlier work with OpenCV, Keras and NVIDIA toolchains. His background in mobile and full-stack engineering (iOS, Android, React Native, ReactJS, .NET, Node.js) underpins a product-first approach that aligns technical vision with business outcomes. Based in Austin, he’s passionate about engineering culture and open-source-driven innovation, combining entrepreneurial drive with practical systems delivery. An unusual strength is his blend of AR/vision research and production-grade LLM orchestration, enabling multimodal AI experiences.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Animation and Gaming Technologies, Master's degree Computer Animation and Gaming Technologies at Hacettepe UniversityBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Balıkesir Üniversitesi | Balikesir University
İngilizce
Github Skills (13)
react9
react-native9
android9
ios9
cross-platform8
animated8
mobile7
animation6
mobile-development6
app-framework5
apple-watch4
backdrop3
watch2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hakankarakaya/BlueAR-BodyDetection
Sep 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 3 months
hakankarakaya/TheStory
Jun 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:109 pushes, 11 branches in 8 months
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