Özgün Özerk
Open Source Rust Developer (Senior) at Senato Diyet
Kadıköy, Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolÖzgün Özerk is a Senior Open Source Rust Developer with 8 years of experience specializing in blockchain, cryptography, distributed systems and high-performance computing. Currently at OpenZeppelin and formerly a core contributor at Subspace Labs, he implemented and optimized the Spartan time-asymmetric permutation and added CUDA-powered GPU acceleration for plotting in a prominent Subspace Protocol reference implementation. He holds a master’s in Cyber Security (Cryptology) and a CS bachelor’s with a psychology minor, blending deep technical rigor with human-centered thinking. As a founder and CEO of Senato Diyet he pairs engineering discipline with product and business experience. An active open-source maintainer with a public portfolio and technical blog, he also publishes creative work—two novels—and performs at a Level 8+ piano proficiency, hinting at a strong mix of analytical precision and creative curiosity.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Cyber Security, 4.00, Master's degree, Cyber Security, 4.00 at Sabanci UniversityErasmus Student, Computer Science, Erasmus Student, Computer Science at Tallinn University of TechnologyKabataş Erkek Lisesi
English, German, Turkish, Russian
Github Skills (8)
cuda10
parallel-processing10
rust10
gpu10
blockchain10
cryptography9
substrate9
web3js8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
autonomys/subspace
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
Subspace Protocol reference implementation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:124 reviews, 81 commits, 46 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Özgün's commits primarily focus on implementing and refactoring core functionalities related to the "Spartan" time-asymmetric permutation within the Subspace Protocol reference implementation. They introduced and improved CUDA integration for GPU acceleration, optimizing plotting performance. Furthermore, the user developed and refined batch encoding APIs. The commits also encompass various tests and bug fixes related to the "Spartan" implementation.
substraterustp2pblockchainweb3
ozgunozerk/state-shift
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
Macros for implementing Type-State-Pattern on your structs and methods
Contributions:11 releases, 1 review, 46 PRs in 5 months
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