Ismet Ozalp is a cofounder and chief engineer based in Istanbul with 12 years of experience building distributed systems, privacy-preserving data mining, and data anonymization solutions. He blends academic depth—a PhD candidate/research background at Sabanci University and an MS from NYU—with hands-on engineering across system administration, databases, and parallel processing. Since 2012 he has led product and engineering efforts at Hive Bilisim ve Yazilim and Navatom, translating research on privacy and ubiquitous participation into practical platforms. His work spans low-level Unix system work to high-level data privacy architectures, giving him a rare cross-stack perspective. Colleagues value his ability to bridge rigorous cryptographic research with production-grade system design. He often combines entrepreneurial drive with an academic mindset, favoring provable approaches to real-world privacy challenges.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Science, High School, Science at Cagaloglu Anatolian High School
Master's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at New York University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science & Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science & Engineering at Sabanci University
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science & Engineering at Işık Üniversitesi
MongoDB object-document mapper in Java based on https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-java-driver
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mongo-java-drivermongokotlindocument-mappermapper
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