Travel AI Lead. I help people go places.

API Gateway team scaling point of contact. Worked on improving internal request flow in order to serve traffic faster and more reliably in a growing number of regions with an emphasis on failsafe workflows and contingencies.

Implemented & maintained high-scale communication pipelines with Python Django, Kotlin, AWS S3 and MySQL for more than +40m users worldwide. Developed internal tools for automated text localization, allowing faster expansion to new languages.

Lisan is a language learning platform for languages that need more love and care than others. Our mission is to help create a safe space for minorities and diasporas to learn and practice their heritage languages through gamified exercises.

Worked on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and structured latent space exploration at Bogazici University CATLAB as part of the Intern Researcher Scholarship Program (TÜBİTAK STAR - 2020/2) participant. Published a paper at ECCV'22 on making state-of-the-art models fairer and less biased.