# Cemre Karakas

> Software Engineer @ Rippling Travel | ex-Amazon, ex-Udemy

Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Profile: https://flows.cv/cemre

I like solving fun problems & working on products that are used and loved.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer ✈️ @ Rippling
Jan 2024 – Present | London, England, United Kingdom
Travel AI Lead. I help people go places.

### Software Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | London, England, United Kingdom
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.

### Software Engineer @ Udemy
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Istanbul, Turkey
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.

### Founder @ Lisan
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
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.

### Research Assistant at CAT AI Labs @ Boğaziçi University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Istanbul, Türkiye
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.

### Machine Learning Engineer Intern @ TAZI AI Systems
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Istanbul, Turkey
Implemented an Online Gaussian Process Regressor using Python & Scala. Benchmarked it against several other ML techniques i.e. Regression & NNs. This model is now integrated to Tazi, the company's main product that handles automated machine learning tasks with a user friendly GUI.


## Education
### Computer Engineering
Boğaziçi University

### Exchange Semester
CentraleSupélec


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/cemreefe
- Website: https://cemrekarakas.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-05