Tayfun Elmas
Head Of Engineering at Assistbox
Fethiye, Muğla, Türkiye Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolTayfun Elmas is a Head of Engineering and seasoned software leader with a deep research background and over two decades of cumulative technical experience spanning academia, big tech, and startups. He has led engineering and architecture efforts at Google (Senior Staff SWE) on Assistant and Cloud GenAI initiatives, contributed to core protocol work at NEAR Protocol, and now drives AI-powered full-stack video communication at Assistbox. Tayfun blends hands-on systems engineering in C++, Java, Go and Python with strong devops, security, and scalability instincts honed on L1 blockchain, distributed systems, and real-time media platforms. His academic roots—PhD work and postdoctoral research on concurrency, testing languages, and runtime analysis—inform a methodical approach to reliability and tooling. Colocated in Fethiye, Türkiye, he is comfortable switching between IC, tech-lead, and management roles, and is notable for bringing formal verification sensibilities into production engineering.
4 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Graduate Student, Visiting Graduate Student at University of WashingtonDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Engineering at Koç UniversityBachelor, Computer Engineering, Bachelor, Computer Engineering at Ege University
Turkish, English
Github Skills (28)
near10
nearprotocol10
ethereum10
blockchain10
rust10
webassembly10
blockchain-platform9
nodes9
smart-contracts8
decentralized-applications8
corda8
blockchain-network7
documentation7
aws-s35
consensus5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tayfunelmas/nearcore
Nov 2024 - Dec 2024
Reference client for NEAR Protocol
Contributions:151 pushes, 35 branches in 1 month
tayfunelmas/nearup
Apr 2024 - Jul 2024
Public scripts to launch NEAR Protocol betanet and testnet node
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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