Mert Alev
Software Engineer at FUTO
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMert Alev is a software engineer and ML practitioner based in New York with three years of experience building NLP models and scalable backend systems. He currently architects machine learning and media-processing pipelines for Immich at FUTO, bringing practical MLOps expertise to self-hosted photo and video management (including work on AV1 encoding, hardware acceleration, and face recognition). Prior roles span NLP engineering and backend development, demonstrating a blend of research-driven model work and production-grade infrastructure. Curious about language origins, he pairs a passion for linguistics and etymology with technical problem solving, which informs his approach to natural language projects. Mert holds a Computer Science degree from NYU and contributes open-source backend improvements to widely used projects in media processing.
3 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at New York University
Github Skills (13)
video-encoder10
transcoding10
transcode10
postgresql10
video-encoding10
ffmpeg10
video-conversion10
openvino9
h2649
hevc9
av1-codec9
opentelemetry9
roc8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
immich-app/immich
May 2023 - Apr 2025
High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1208 reviews, 688 PRs, 1926 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Mert contributed significantly to the server-side functionalities of the immich-app project, focusing on areas related to video transcoding, face detection and recognition, and general metadata processing. Their commits showcase work on implementing features like AV1 encoding for NVENC, configuring hardware acceleration, and improving the management and processing of image data. This suggests they were involved in the backend logic and infrastructure for handling media assets.
videosmobile-appvideobackup-solutionbackup
mertalev/immich
May 2023 - Sep 2023
Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone.
Contributions:187 pushes, 31 branches in 4 months
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