Mert Gerdan
Senior Applied ML Engineer at Tavus
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMert Gerdan is a Senior Applied ML Engineer based in San Francisco with 8 years of experience building production ML systems and developer-facing infrastructure. After an early engineering internship at Amazon and a CS degree from the University of Michigan, he joined Tavus where he moved from integrating research models and scaling infra to architecting conversational video agents and agentic workflow systems. He blends hands-on engineering with research curiosity—working on perception, RAG, and scheduling for agent workflows—while favoring pragmatic, reproducible pipelines. Mert has taught data structures to large undergraduate cohorts, surfacing an ability to explain complex concepts clearly and mentor peers. Colleagues describe him as a “professional impostor” in the best way: skeptical, detail-oriented, and oddly precise about preferring ALL CAPS for certain prompts.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science and Engineering - BSE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science and Engineering - BSE, Computer Science at University of Michigan
Github Skills (13)
voice-assistant10
voice10
ai9
multimodal8
ai-agent7
llm7
openai7
style-transfer6
msg5
transfer-learning3
efficientnet3
deep-neural-networks2
neural-network2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mertgerdan/mertgerdan.github.io
Jan 2018 - Feb 2026
Contributions:187 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 1 month
mertgerdan/personal-projects
Jan 2018 - Sep 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 45 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 8 months
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