Hakan Uysal

Staff Software Engineer at Google

Netherlands

About

Scraping the internet since 2011. These days: Comparing open source LLMs with closed source ones for long tail languages like Turkish. Self hosting open-webui, lm-studio for local large language model inference. Becoming proficient at GPUaaS, LLM scalability, inference architecture, first token latency decreasing, LLM memoization, image OCR and understanding via LLMs. Wrote a new nano banana wrapper recently. Daytime stack: C++, go, bazel, grpc, spanner, F1, dremel, SQL, Borg, Google Sovereign Cloud. Nighttime stack: Python + (mongodb || postgres || mysql || sqlite || timescaledb || influxdb), vuejs, on firebase, app engine, raspberry pi, docker, docker compose, kubernetes, airflow, apache spark, beam, grafana, prometheus, tailscale, wireguard, cloudflare, cursor, antigravity, replit, obsidian. Community: Mentoring startups and NGOs on large scale system design and machine learning: * Mentor in Google AI Impact Challenge https://ai.google/social-good/impact-challenge/ * Skilllab: https://skilllab.io/en-us/company/team * Ideas to Reality: Gringgo Trash Tech: https://youtu.be/oDv9wr2oh5I?t=138 * Mentor in Google for Startups Accelerator: Sustainable Development Goals (https://events.withgoogle.com/google-for-startups-accelerator-sustainable-development-goals/) * Manage chronic disease in Africa: https://www.mymdoc.com/ What I have (done|been doing): Machine Learning at scale, Big data analysis, Android Development, Web Application Development, Image/Video Processing, Parallel Processing, Computer Unified Device Architecture (CUDA), Real Time Software Development, Geographical Information System (GIS).

Experience

  • Google (14 yrs 9 mos)
    • Tech Lead, Staff Software Engineer, SRE
      Oct 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

      * Tech leading Canary Analysis Service (https://research.google/pubs/canary-analysis-service/) * Building next generation software deployment (rollout) supervision service * Involved heavily in Google Cloud’s new Digital Sovereignty initiative (https://cloud.google.com/sovereign-cloud#sovereign-cloud) * Working on preventing outages before they happen automatically and quickly by utilizing novel machine learning models and LLMs.

    • Tech Lead - Sr. Software Engineer (Site Reliability Engineering)
      Mar 2020 - Oct 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      * Tech leading Canary Analysis Service which guards the software rollouts to prevent bad releases hitting production: https://research.google/pubs/pub46908/ * Designing and implementing rollout production supervision solutions. * Researching ways to apply machine learning in production environment

    • Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer
      Oct 2018 - Mar 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

      * Worked on scaling and improving Canary Analysis Service: https://research.google/pubs/pub46908/ * Designed and implemented multiple features to improve canarying quality and user experience.

  • Part-time Software Engineer at STM A.Ş.
    Mar 2011 - Oct 2011 · 8 mos

    STM is a military defense company working specifically on development software of national tank (Altay), helicopter (ATAK) and unmanned aerial drone (Anka). * Worked on command & control systems with C++, Boost, Qt frameworks. * Worked on development of the infrastructure of interclient realtime communication by message passing.

  • Software Engineering Intern at Aselsan
    Jun 2010 - Jul 2010 · 2 mos

    * Real-time embedded software developer by using Rhapsody, VxWorks and C++. * Worked on image processing algorithms for target detection and tracking.

  • Software Engineering Intern at Aysoft
    Jun 2009 - Jul 2009 · 2 mos

    * Developed server watchdog to keep an eye on the storage by using C# .NET * Developed an indexing tool to easily search what's stored in the server by using C#, MSSQL and Visual Studio