Uzay Girit
Co-Founder at fulcrum research
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolUzay Girit is a Co-Founder and full-stack engineer with six years of hands-on experience building web systems and research-driven ML tooling from San Francisco. An MIT CS and Math graduate and former CSAIL researcher, he has explored in-context learning dynamics, synthetic task generation, and scaling laws for language models. He combines product-oriented engineering—shipping features, search, and editor improvements in open-source projects like Archivy and Public Lab—with startup experience from Dust and his current venture, Fulcrum Research. Uzay's work bridges rigorous research and pragmatic implementation: he routinely moves ideas into production-quality code, is comfortable across Rails and modern web stacks, and has a knack for improving user-facing workflows (e.g., search, rich editing, and link graph features). He’s equally at home contributing security fixes and tests as he is prototyping ML experiments, reflecting a blend of curiosity-driven research and delivery-focused engineering.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyIngenieur Polytechnicien Exchange Student, Mathematics and Computer Science, Ingenieur Polytechnicien Exchange Student, Mathematics and Computer Science at École PolytechniqueCollege Sevigne
English, French, Spanish, Turkish
Github Skills (22)
ruby-rails10
javascript10
python10
testing10
rails10
flask-ask10
front-end-development10
backend10
ruby-on-rails10
flask10
back-end-development9
markdown9
http9
markdown-it9
api9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
archivy/archivy
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Archivy is a self-hostable knowledge repository that allows you to learn and retain information in your own personal and extensible wiki.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 79 reviews, 597 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Uzay's commits primarily focus on implementing features and improving the functionality of the "Archivy" knowledge repository. They implemented a core feature for adding bookmarks using a form, including backend logic to save URLs. They also worked on a search functionality and incorporated enhancements such as the implementation of a web-based editor with syntax highlighting and the integration of bidirectional links, which involved frontend and backend changes.
pythonarchivynote-takingknowledgeproductivity
publiclab/plots2
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
a collaborative knowledge-exchange platform in Rails; we welcome first-time contributors! :balloon:
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 1 commit, 39 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Uzay contributed to the Public Lab Plots2 repository by implementing and improving features across both the front-end and back-end. Their work included fixing security vulnerabilities by replacing HTTP with HTTPS, enhancing the notes controller to sort notes by likes, and adding tests for various functionalities, including batch-spamming and OAuth redirections. Additionally, the user worked on design changes for the question page and created a new page listing wikis for a specific author, indicating a focus on both code and user interface improvements.
ruby-on-railsballoonexchangefirst-timersknowledge
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