Karay Akar
Founder - Generative AI Strategy & Innovation Leader (Remote )
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKaray Akar is a founder and generative AI strategy leader with 25+ years designing and delivering enterprise-grade AI, cloud, and data transformation systems for clients including Microsoft, NYPD, HP, AT&T and Nissan. He blends deep hands-on engineering across Azure, on-prem and hybrid architectures with product-level leadership, shipping production-ready GenAI, speech, OCR, embeddings and multimodal pipelines that operate at petabyte scale and low latency. Equally fluent in legacy Microsoft stacks (.NET, SSIS, Dynamics, SharePoint) and modern cloud-native tooling (Docker, Spark, ElasticSearch, IoT), he repeatedly converts research and prototypes into mission-critical, high-traffic platforms. Trusted for full-cycle delivery, he drives architecture, DevOps, CI/CD and secure deployments while advising exec teams on responsible GenAI adoption. An entrepreneur at heart, he has founded multiple ventures and built language-specific TTS and LLM training work for niche markets—an uncommon blend of creative design training from his fine arts background and rigorous systems engineering. Based in New York, he focuses on turning cutting-edge AI into measurable operational and business value.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Interior Architecture Department of Interior Architecture, Interior Architecture Department of Interior Architecture at Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts / Mimar Sinan Universitesi Guzel Sanatlar
Turkish, English
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Github Skills (184)
nuget10
dotnet10
monaco-editor10
linux9
browser9
nlp9
code-editor9
text-to-speech9
python9
asp-net-core9
windows9
asp-net9
confluent9
pytorch9
dotnet-core9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
karayakar/monacoeditor
Jul 2020 - Mar 2022
IntelliSense & backend compiler demo.
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 3 commits in 1 year 7 months
compilerbackendcompiler-backendintellisense
karayakar/tigertoolbox
Oct 2022 - Nov 2024
Toolbox repository for Tiger team
Contributions:25 PRs, 27 pushes, 29 branches in 2 years 1 month
tigertoolbox
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