Serkan Karakulak
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSerkan Karakulak is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer in New York with a decade of experience building production ML systems and seven years focused specifically on data science and banking-focused machine learning. He has led end-to-end projects across institutions from Türkiye İş Bankası to PepsiCo and Meta, shipping customer targeting, attribution, and ranking solutions that measurably improved business metrics. His technical strengths include NLP, Graph Neural Networks, and self-supervised learning, and he has applied research rigour from collaborations at NYU (including work with Yann LeCun) to reduce failure modes in autonomous driving models. Known for bridging research and product, he combines hands-on model development with stakeholder-facing delivery and mentoring of junior engineers. Based in NYC, he now contributes to foundational AI and ranking at Meta, bringing both applied impact and research sensibilities to large-scale ML challenges.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Financial Mathematics, BS Financial Mathematics at Istanbul Bilgi UniversityMS Data Science, MS Data Science at NYU Center for Data ScienceHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Deutsche Schule Istanbul / Alman Lisesi
Turkish, English, German
Github Skills (38)
pytorch10
python10
data-science10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
gpu10
natural-language-processing10
transformer10
prediction10
speech-recognition10
nlp10
jax10
transformers9
numpy9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
skarakulak/DGNN_twitter
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:21 commits, 2 pushes in 1 month
skarakulak/tensorbayes
Jan 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:1 push in 1 year 8 months
deep-learninginferencetensorflowvariationalvariational-inference
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