Özgür Demir is a Lead Data Engineer and founder with 13 years of experience building large-scale data and ML platforms, currently designing one of Europe’s largest patient health data platforms in Berlin. With a PhD in machine learning and a track record from SoundCloud to startups, he architects cloud-native data lakes, MLOps pipelines and production recommender and fraud-detection systems that scale to hundreds of millions of users. He combines hands-on engineering—building real-time pipelines and training models on billions of points—with team leadership and product-minded consultancy through his firm nonlinear.ai. Notably, his background in music production and audio ML has driven successful recommender and audio-classification projects, blending creative signal-processing insight with robust data engineering.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Natural Sciences (Dr. rer. nat.) Bioinformatics, Doctor of Natural Sciences (Dr. rer. nat.) Bioinformatics at Freie Universität Berlin
Contributions:37 commits, 5 PRs, 35 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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