Selen Basol

Engineering Manager

Zurich, Switzerland15 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Led innovative AR/MR projects at Meta.
  • Expert in team management and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Significant contributions to Google Maps user engagement.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AR/MR and Geo technologies with strong software engineering expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

Team ManagementSoftware Engineering

Other Skills

Cross-functional CollaborationsCareer ManagementObject Oriented DesignArtificial IntelligenceBig Data AnalyticsPythonAlgorithmsJavaSoftware DevelopmentC++JavaScriptMapReduceUnit TestingLinuxEclipse

Experience

15 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
5 yrs
Average Tenure
6 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Meta

Engineering Manager

Feb 2020Present · 6 yrs 2 mos · Zurich, Switzerland

  • Facebook Reality Labs:
  • Zurich based teams explore, develop, and deliver new cutting-edge technologies that serve as the foundation of current and future AR/MR products. From mixed reality and human interaction to natural inputs and beyond, we're focused on taking new technologies from early concept to the product level while iterating, prototyping, and realizing the human value and new experiences they open up.
  • Currently, I support Object Encoding and Body Encoding teams in Zurich. Technologies my teams innovated utilize sensors, run realtime to provide core encoding capabilities of our devices.
  • "Object Encoding": We develop and deploy novel end-to-end solutions to detect, model/reconstruct and track real world objects to enable various experiences in AR/MR devices
  • For instance check out our latest VR productivity experience with tracked keyboard; technology built by our team.
  • "Body Encoding": we develop and deploy novel end-to-end solutions to understand and synthesize human motions core to our presence and input experiences. You can check out our body tracking solutions that power avatars today in Meta Quest devices (And we were the ones that made sure they have legs ;)).
  • Other: Active part of Zurich Site and support site growth and health by creating strategy and implement programs for Talent and Growth of individual contributors and engineering managers.
  • Previously supported:
  • Evaluation and execution infrastructure: Building efficient and easy to use workflows for Machine Learning and Computer Vision algorithms development and deployment.
Team ManagementCross-functional CollaborationsCareer ManagementObject Oriented DesignSoftware EngineeringArtificial Intelligence+1

Google

5 roles

Tech Lead Manager

Oct 2017Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Tech lead manager of Maps Timeline:
  • Working on user location history and current location experiences and improving current semantic location understanding.
Team ManagementCross-functional Collaborations

Tech Lead Manager

Oct 2015Feb 2020 · 4 yrs 4 mos

  • Working on Maps and Geo related projects.
  • Tech lead manager of user engagement and growth on User Location History/Maps Timeline.
Team ManagementCross-functional CollaborationsCareer Management

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

May 2014Nov 2016 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Working on Maps and Geo related projects.
  • Tech lead on User Location History/Maps Timeline - data pipelines and web app.
  • Launched Maps Timeline checkout web version in http://www.google.com/maps/timeline

Software Engineer

Promoted

Aug 2010May 2014 · 3 yrs 9 mos

  • Tech lead of a project on User Location History.
  • http://maps.google.com/locationhistory
  • Launched projects:
  • Reviews Tab on Google+ profiles
  • http://plus.google.com/113693735659222102870/reviews
  • Panoramio Hangout Game
  • www.panoramio.com/game
  • Weather layer on maps
  • Events on desktop and mobile PlacePages

Intern

Mar 2010Jun 2010 · 3 mos · Zurich

  • Intern on Google Maps: Build a fully functional and integrated showcase that brings live/dynamically changing geo-located content sources such as cultural events, weather, roadworks etc to Google Maps. Showcase proved the product concept the leadership and got funding for building a team.

Zurich girl geek dinners

Organizer

Jan 2013Jul 2017 · 4 yrs 6 mos

University of calabria

Research Intern

Jul 2009Aug 2009 · 1 mo · Reggio Calabria Area, Italy

  • Worked on a plugin to introduce the notion of action atoms, which are associated to corresponding functions capable of actually changing the state of external environments to dlvhex.
  • http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/research/systems/dlvhex/actionplugin/acthex.pdf

Education

Sabanci University

BS

Jan 2006Jan 2010

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