Sertalp Çay
Principal Operations Research Specialist
Cary, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolSertalp Çay is a Principal Operations Research Specialist with 11 years of experience designing optimization models and custom algorithms to drive enterprise decision systems at SAS. He bridges research, software engineering, and applied decision-making to move cutting-edge ideas — including quantum optimization and scalable modeling frameworks — from prototype to production. A PhD-trained industrial and systems engineer, he has deep expertise in simulation optimization, conic optimization, and surrogate-based hyperparameter tuning developed during long-term research and internship collaborations. As co-founder and COO of Solio Analytics he translated advanced OR concepts into user-centric decision tools for multi-week planning under uncertainty, favoring transparent, educational workflows over black-box predictions. He has a track record of improving performance and scalability (e.g., halving solution times in simulation optimization research) and routinely builds proof-of-concept solutions that span industries. Based in Cary, NC, he combines academic rigor with product-minded leadership to make complex optimization accessible and actionable.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Industrial Engineering, Master’s Degree Industrial Engineering at Bilkent UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Industrial and Systems Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lehigh University
Turkish, English, Japanese
Github Skills (39)
sas10
logistics10
simplex10
vehicle-routing-problem10
operations-research10
gurobi10
modeling10
optimization10
linear-optimization9
mixed-integer-programming9
python9
quadratic-programming9
high-performance8
parallel-processing8
parallel8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sertalpbilal/rocket_league_analytics
Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:124 commits, 104 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
sertalpbilal/QDBB
Mar 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:70 commits, 53 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
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