Yamaç Işık
Founding Staff Engineer at Noam
Durham, North Carolina, Portugal
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Top SchoolYamaç Işık is a founding staff engineer and CTO-level builder with 8 years of experience applying ML and AI to high-stakes operational problems, currently leading Noam’s effort to bring AI into aviation safety and operations. He has co-founded and shipped forecasting and probabilistic systems at Aerology and Aimiable, improving prediction accuracy and extending horizons using transformers, boosted trees, and custom probabilistic networks. Comfortable across the stack, he designs end-to-end pipelines and MLOps on AWS and GCP, instrumentation with Grafana/InfluxDB, and model experimentation with W&B to turn forecasts into actionable staffing and routing decisions. His research background at Duke in temporal point processes and Hawkes-process innovations informs practical, interpretable models for healthcare and travel disruptions. A multilingual economist-turned-engineer, he blends rigorous causal inference and time-series expertise with production engineering chops to solve real-world operational risk. Based in Durham with a global education pedigree, he quietly combines academic depth with founder grit to deliver measurable operational gains.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science & Economics, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science & Economics at Duke UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Economics, Master of Science - MS, Economics at Barcelona Graduate School of EconomicsPostgradute Diploma, Economics, First-class honours, Postgradute Diploma, Economics, First-class honours at University of WarwickUndergraduate, Civil Engineering, Honor's Degree, Undergraduate, Civil Engineering, Honor's Degree at Boğaziçi University
English, Turkish, German, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (11)
pandas6
python6
plotly1
plotly-dash1
notebook1
jupyter-notebook1
data-visualization1
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jupyterlab1
jupyter1
data-analysis1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
yamacisik/gated_kernel_tpp
Aug 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:292 commits, 4 PRs, 203 pushes in 9 months
yamacisik/Beer-Reccomendation-Using-Matrix-Factorization
Dec 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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