Summary
Tuğcem Oral is a Staff Software Engineer based in London with 14 years of experience building large-scale search, analytics and distributed systems across startups and tech leaders including HubSpot, Deliveroo, Revolut and Amazon. She combines deep Java and Linux expertise with hands-on experience in search technologies (Lucene, Solr, Nutch), Hadoop ecosystems, NoSQL and message-driven architectures to deliver resilient, high-throughput platforms. Her background in semantic web, AI/ML, information retrieval and PhD-level research informs pragmatic designs for search relevance, data pipelines and domain modeling. Tuğcem has led engineering teams and built production crawling, image analysis and web analytics systems, demonstrating both technical ownership and product-oriented thinking. She is an open-source enthusiast comfortable across the stack—from shell scripting and C/C++ to Scala, Python and modern web tooling. Notably, her career intersects research and production: academic work on semantic agents and ontologies has repeatedly influenced the practical search and NLP systems she ships.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Engineering at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Engineering at Ege University
Turkish, English