the registry.

yılmaz means perseverant in turkish. i tend to live up to it.

stockholm · ss26 sf

building agi

istanbul · in sf, any week

third engineer at a yc s24 voice agent company. mostly debugging twilio at 2am.

bangalore · ss26 sf · ai engineer summit

product designer at a tokyo bank. moonlighting on a developer-tooling side project that may finally be ready to leave the notion doc.

tokyo · in sf, any week · manifest 26

climate hardware founder. former mech-e at apple. trying to make industrial heat pumps cheap enough that latam factories stop burning diesel.

mexico city · ss26 sf · in sf, any week

ms student at the technion. spending way too much time on benchmark contamination problems.

tel aviv · neurips sf satellite · ai engineer summit

senior infra at a lagos fintech. founding member of a small lagos devtools collective.

lagos · in sf, any week

post-phd, hopping out of the lab. building a robot foundation-model startup that's mostly waiting for ai chips to land in seoul.

seoul · ss26 sf

phd-ing at mpi-tübingen. trying to keep the alignment people from yelling at the capabilities people in the same conference room.

berlin · neurips sf satellite · in sf, any week

post-doc at the crick. spinning out a protein-design startup that's still mostly a notion doc and a sense of dread.

cambridge · ss26 sf · in sf, any week

voicer of opinions

istanbul · in sf, any week · ai engineer summit