Solak Solak
Software Engineer at Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSolak Solak is a San Francisco–based software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building full-stack features for scientific open-source tools. At CZ Biohub and as a notable contributor to the popular Napari image viewer, he has shipped UI-driven enhancements—range/clim sliders, layer management, drag-and-drop reordering—and added interactive scripting to improve image analysis workflows. He enjoys pair programming and collaborative debugging, favoring four-eyes development to accelerate quality and knowledge transfer. An avid researcher and guitarist, he blends technical rigor with creative curiosity and advocates information theory and next-generation materials like graphene as lenses for future technology.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Koç ÜniversitesiHigh School, High School at Aydın Fen Lisesi
Github Skills (12)
napi10
uid10
pari10
visualization10
pyqt10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
qt10
visualizations10
n10
python10
numpy10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Napari/napari
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 push, 1 branch, 1 comment in 3 months
Contributions summary:Solak primarily contributed to enhancing the user interface and functionality of the napari application. Their work involved implementing new features such as range sliders and clim sliders, which required modifications to both the GUI elements and the underlying layer management. They also made changes to improve the layer list management, including drag-and-drop reordering and improved selection handling. Additionally, the user added interactive scripting capabilities, enabling more dynamic and customizable image manipulation.
royerlab/aydin
May 2019 - Jan 2023
Aydin — User-friendly, Fast, Self-Supervised Image Denoising for All.
Contributions:6 releases, 50 reviews, 247 commits in 3 years 8 months
pytorchimagepythonsuperviseddeep-learning
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