Yavuz Öztürk is a founding engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building AI-driven products and developer reliability layers, currently developing voice agents at Freya (YC S25). He has a strong research background in NLP and multimodal ML from Bilkent University and internships at TÜBİTAK BİLGEM and Utrecht University, bridging academic work with production systems. As founder of Gökordu UAV Team and the Bilkent AI Society, he has led interdisciplinary projects from autonomous drone vision stacks to large-scale community events and industry partnerships. He shipped full-stack AI products using Spring Boot, Next.js and LangChain, and previously helped create reliability tooling for AI development at Codewolf. Fluent in organizing high-impact technical programs (including NVIDIA-certified trainings and an OpenAI live Q&A), he pairs startup grit with academic rigor. An uncommon thread in his profile is consistently turning research prototypes into deployed systems and community-scale experiences.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Project Development Physics, Project Development Physics at Yasemin Karakaya Science and Art Center
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Bilkent University
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