Onur Solmaz is an engineer with 13 years of experience who blends a rigorous scientific-computing background with recent work in Blockchain, DeFi, and agent architectures. Currently an Agent Engineer at Hugging Face and a maintainer of OpenClaw, he focuses on making local models perform robustly and enabling agent interoperability, enterprise integrations, and security. He co-founded and led backend development at TextCortex AI, shipping agentic coding tools and steering the dev team from 2025 onward. Past roles include protocol development and research at Balancer, mStable, and CasperLabs, underscoring deep expertise in decentralized systems. Based in Berlin, he’s also a blogger and armchair philosopher, bringing a reflective, systems-level perspective to engineering problems.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate
Master of Science (MSc) Computational Mechanics (COMMAS), Master of Science (MSc) Computational Mechanics (COMMAS) at University of Stuttgart
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Civil Engineering at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
Contributions:20 commits, 16 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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