Tugrul Ates
Founder at Roka Software
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolTugrul Ates is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with seven years of product and platform experience across Meta and Google, now building Roka Software from Amsterdam. He has a track record of shipping high-impact features—personalized navigation that boosted retention, Play Store merchandising that increased installs, and infrastructure for early Stadia partners—while filling gaps as engineer, PM, and data scientist. At Meta he formed and scaled cross-disciplinary ranking and data teams, ran hundreds of navigation experiments, and became a go-to mentor and top interviewer. Trained as an electrical engineer with research roots in large-scale multimedia systems, he blends prototyping curiosity with production-grade rigor and a knack for turning ambiguous problems into measurable product improvements.
7 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Electrical and Electronics Engineering, M.S. Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
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Github Skills (83)
cms10
python10
deep-learning10
gpu10
gpu-acceleration10
markdown10
deno10
oh-my-zsh10
javascript10
editor10
numpy10
neural-network10
site-generator10
rust10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tugrulates/dotfiles
Jan 2019 - Mar 2026
Dotfiles
Contributions:4 PRs, 100 pushes, 6 branches in 7 years 3 months
dotfilesvimzsh
tugrulates/www
Jan 2022 - Jul 2026
Code for my website
Contributions:1 review, 549 PRs, 2059 pushes in 4 years 6 months
my-blog
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