Emir Akdere

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States10 yrs 2 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Expert in distributed systems and backend engineering.
Co-Founder with experience in startup environments.
Strong foundation in AI and machine learning applications.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in Distributed Systems and AI technologies.

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PhilosophyResearchComputer VisionPhysicsRoboticsAlgorithmsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)Microsoft OfficeC++Docker ProductsLaTeXJavaPublic SpeakingJapanese

About

Distributed Systems Software Engineer at Netflix. Experience in backend, security, parallel programing... Idk I like learning so pretty much anything I need to learn to get the work done!

Experience

10 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 11 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 5 mos

Current Experience

Castellan ai

Co-Founder

Jan 2026 – Present · 5 mos · San Francisco, CA

Self-employed

Angel Investor

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Safetykit

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

South park commons

Founder Fellow (FF24)

Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr

Founder Fellowship
Founded Nonfiction as CTO: knowledge work

Netflix

2 roles

Security/Distributed Systems Software Engineer

Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 · 3 yrs · Los Gatos, California, United States

Apache Iceberg, Apache Spark, Trino (Presto)
Previously Security Software Engineer

Software Engineer Intern

May 2020 – Aug 2020 · 3 mos · Los Gatos, CA

Yale university

2 roles

Research Assistant, Social Robotics Lab

Promoted

Feb 2019 – Aug 2019 · 6 mos

Coauthored a research paper concerning skill-detection via a Q-learning based model and how to integrate robots into human environment for skill enhancement and education
Analyzed and discussed Human-Computer Interaction papers biweekly
Employed Computer Vision methods, Docker, Robot Operating System (ROS) and a Universal Robots 5e arm for building a skill-evaluation system for a circuit-building task

Teaching Assistant, Artificial Intelligence

Jan 2018 – May 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Served as the teaching assistant of Artificial Intelligence (CS470/570) and Introduction to CS (CS201)
Directed walkthroughs and 8 weekly office hours for assisting the theoretical understanding of students and backend development of AI models such as A* Search, Adversarial Search, Q-learning, Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks, Computer Vision, Markov Chains, and Automated Planning and Scheduling

Visionairy health

Software Engineering Intern

Dec 2018 – Mar 2019 · 3 mos · Greater Boston Area

Sabanci university

3 roles

Teaching Assistant for Augmented Mechanics I & II

Jun 2015 – Aug 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Served as a TA for the intensive calculus-based Physics lecture series designed by Prof. Nihat Berker (emeritus professor at MIT).

Research Assistant

Jun 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Was responsible for data curation and analysis for pattern determination of Interdisciplinarity of Sciences under Prof. Nihat Berker.

Teaching Assistant for Quantum Mechanics

Jun 2015 – Aug 2015 · 2 mos

• Served as a TA for the accelerated calculus-based high school lecture series designed by Prof. Sondan Durukanoglu Feyiz (President of Kadir Has University)