Sefa Okcu
Lead Software Engineer at Aselsan
Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolSefa Okcu is a Lead Software Engineer and senior deep learning practitioner with eight years of experience building production computer vision systems, specializing in object detection, face recognition and face quality assessment. Based in Ankara, he combines a strong Python toolkit (OpenCV, PyTorch) with deployment know-how using Docker and Docker Compose to bridge research and field-ready solutions at Aselsan. His MSc in Cognitive Science informs a unique emphasis on multitask and continual learning techniques, bringing cognitive principles to model design and lifecycle management. Passionate about AI, LLMs and autonomous vehicles, he is equally comfortable iterating on algorithms and operationalizing them for real-world embedded applications. An early career foundation in academic research and course instruction gives him a proven ability to translate complex concepts into practical engineering outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
1 Fen Bilimleri, 1 Fen Bilimleri at Mehmet Serttaş Anadolu LisesiMaster of Science - MS Cognitive Science, Master of Science - MS Cognitive Science at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
Turkish, İngilizce, German
Github Skills (24)
fpga9
face-recognition8
face8
re-identification7
computer-vision7
face-detection7
yolov57
object-detection6
mxnet6
pytorch6
paddlepaddle5
face-alignment5
deep-learning5
arcface5
classification2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sefaburakokcu/quantized-yolov5
Aug 2022 - Mar 2025
Low Precision(quantized) Yolov5
Contributions:10 PRs, 6 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 6 months
pytorchobject-detectioncomputer-visionyolov5precision
sefaburakokcu/sefaburakokcu.github.io
Mar 2020 - Jun 2024
Website for personal blog and projects
Contributions:2 PRs, 27 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
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