Yavuz Öztürk
Founding Engineer at Freya (YC S25)
Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolYavuz 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 CenterBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Bilkent University
English, Turkish
Github Skills (21)
github-pages10
jekyll10
jekyll-theme10
chatgpt9
openai-api9
campus9
openai8
matcher7
webapp6
pdf-annotation6
flutter5
obsidian5
laravel5
nodejs4
php4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
alpsencer/bilkent-super-bot
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:32 commits, 15 pushes, 1 comment in 1 month
alpsencer/alpsencer.github.io
May 2022 - May 2026
A beautiful, simple, clean, and responsive Jekyll theme for academics
Contributions:4 PRs, 179 pushes, 11 branches in 4 years
responsive-jekyll-themeacademicscleanjekylljekyll-theme
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