Sinan Ozdemir

San Francisco, California, United States

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Sinan Ozdemir is an AI and LLM advisor, author, and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience blending deep mathematical rigor and practical machine learning to build products and teach practitioners. As founder and former CTO of startups including Kylie.ai and LoopGenius, and ex-Director of Data Science at Directly, he has translated advanced NLP and generative models into scalable marketing and support solutions used by thousands. He advises investors at Tola Capital on applying LLMs to identify opportunities and manage risk, while authoring accessible AI resources for Pearson and Addison-Wesley—his recent book on LLMs reached top rankings in AI/NLP. Trained in pure mathematics (M.A./B.A., Johns Hopkins) and a Y Combinator alumnus, Sinan pairs formal theory with hands-on engineering—his open contributions include practical data science code used in General Assembly curricula. He is also a former Forbes Technology Council member and active volunteer, bringing both thought leadership and community-minded mentorship to the AI ecosystem.

11 years of coding experience

12 years of employment as a software developer

Y Combinator

Johns Hopkins University

Turkish, Spanish

Github Skills (12)

scikit-learn10

scikit10

python10

numpy10

data-analysis10

matplotlib9

logistic-regression9

pandas9

api8

apim8

k-means-clustering8

webscraping7

Programming languages (2)

Jupyter NotebookPython

Github contributions (5)

justmarkham/DAT4

Dec 2014 - Mar 2015

General Assembly's Data Science course in Washington, DC

Role in this project:

Data Scientist

Contributions:20 commits, 13 pushes in 2 months

Contributions summary:Sinan primarily contributed to a data science course repository, adding Python code for various data science concepts. This includes a Python refresher, code for data acquisition using APIs and web scraping, and implementations of data analysis using NumPy. The user also demonstrated skills in data visualization with matplotlib, clustering techniques, and logistic regression modeling.

washington-dcpythonsciencedata-sciencemachine-learning

sinanuozdemir/SF_DAT_15

Jun 2015 - Aug 2015

Contributions:75 commits, 64 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months

dat

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