Semih Yumuşak
CTO, Core Software And Technology Development at Stealth Startup
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSemih Yumuşak is a CTO and founding partner with 10+ years of experience building AI-first products across fintech, healthtech and smart-city domains, currently leading core software and technology development at a stealth startup in Birmingham. He combines deep academic training (PhD in Computer Engineering) and applied research—driving EU-funded projects at the University of Southampton that focused on privacy-preserving, semantic data discovery and MLOps. A hands-on ML engineer and NLP team lead by training, he has shipped production Python/PyTorch systems for entity recognition, data linking and automated metadata extraction in large-scale data integration platforms. His background spans academia and industry, from lecturing MSc courses to founding a software firm that built large-scale vehicle tracking and messaging platforms. Known for translating research into deployable pipelines, he brings a rare mix of formal methods, linked-data expertise and practical engineering rigor to generative AI and RAG initiatives. Fluent in building human-in-the-loop systems, he excels at turning complex data governance and privacy constraints into scalable AI solutions.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Business Administration and Management General, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Business Administration and Management General at Istanbul Bilgi UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at Koç UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Engineering at Selçuk Üniversitesi
English, Turkish
Github Skills (15)
languagetool6
translation5
gettext5
qiskit3
python3
discovery3
java2
endpoint2
javascript2
internet2
crawler2
tushare2
spark1
sparql1
analyzer1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
EU-UPCAST/OpenAPISpecification
Nov 2023 - Jul 2024
Contributions:3 reviews, 13 PRs, 10 pushes in 7 months
WebProgramming2021/ClassMainRepo
Mar 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:1 review, 9 PRs, 17 pushes in 7 days
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