Hayder Kharrufa
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Lightring Technology
Sakarya, Türkiye Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolHayder Kharrufa is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with eight years of experience specializing in speech and language AI, including ASR, NMT, OCR, and TTS. He has moved systems from Kaldi-based pipelines to transformer models and built GPU-accelerated, production-ready APIs for multilingual and low-resource languages. At ClearCypher he trained a dialectal Arabic TTS and optimized models for constrained settings, and he has managed large-scale multilingual data collection for OCR and MT as a project lead. Now based in Sakarya, Türkiye and currently at Lightring Technology, he blends research-driven experimentation with practical deployment, often focusing on language varieties and engineering trade-offs that improve real-world robustness.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Sakarya University
Arabic, English, Turkish
Github Skills (53)
breadth-first-search10
location10
speech10
pygame10
markov10
speaker-verification9
speech-to-text9
arabic9
pathfinding9
cuda9
shell8
nlp8
python8
kaldi8
asr8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hayderkharrufa/arabic_poem_generator
May 2020 - Aug 2021
Generating Arabic poetry using Markov chains.
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
nlppythonmarkov-chainschainsmarkov
hayderkharrufa/snake_pathfinding_ai
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
AI plays snake game using BFS (Breadth-First Search) algorithm.
Contributions:36 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 2 years 6 months
aiartificial-intelligencebfsbreadth-first-searchgame
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