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Ozgur Dogan Ugurlu

Builder

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Work Experience

2022 - 2024

  • Founder / Full Stack AI Engineer

    2022 - 2024

    - Built retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems - both vanilla and with LlamaIndex - for various domains: online courses, franchise manuals, customer support, and standardized testing (LSAT, lab tech exams). - Architected a Docker Swarm bare metal backend with automated deploys and rollbacks. - Developed an adjustable-speed, ChatGPT-like frontend for the AI assistant. - Built an AI powered pseudonymizer that runs locally to follow EU’s privacy laws. - Contributed to LlamaIndex.

2022 - 2022

  • Interim CTO

    2022 - 2022

    - Reduced outages by 80% by implementing engineering processes and a predictable release cycle. - Coached the team to establish a productive relationship with the CEO.

2021 - 2022

  • Angel Investor

    2021 - 2022

2019 - 2021

  • Head of Engineering & Product

    2019 - 2021

    - Hired a new team to expand to new markets. - Increased revenue by 20%.

2018 - 2019

  • Senior Engineering and Product Manager

    2018 - 2019

    - Led the development of an improved analytics infrastructure for the Electron client. - Introduced a new notifications architecture that played well with accessibility.

2017 - 2018

  • Product Manager

    2017 - 2018

    - Designed an MVP for ChatEngine, founded a team and delivered on time. - Launched ChatEngine and drove over 1000 leads in the first 8 weeks of launch. - Launched Serverless Functions with a hackathon which drove 250+ registrations in hours.

2015 - 2016

  • Co-founder & CEO

    2015 - 2016

2012 - 2015

  • Senior Software Engineer

    2012 - 2015

    - Joined as the 6th engineer, built 3 generations of backends (Splunk, MongoDB, HBase/Hadoop) that consumed over 5 billion events per day. - Helped build the team to >350 people.

2011 - 2012

  • Senior Software Engineer

    2011 - 2012

2010 - 2011

  • Embedded Software Engineer

    2010 - 2011