Emrah Tokalak
Principal AI Software Engineer at Turkcell
Sakarya, Sakarya, Turkey
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Top SchoolEmrah Tokalak is a Principal AI Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience blending software architecture and hands-on engineering to build scalable, production-grade systems. Currently at Turkcell, he leads development of agentic AI applications, real-time analytics, and speech/NLP pipelines using Python, FastAPI, transformers, embeddings and Temporal for robust workflow orchestration. His background as a .NET architect and contributor to Orchard Core gives him a strong systems-design mindset that he applies to AI-first solutions, while selectively using Go for performance-critical services. He has led product and engineering teams through SaaS, DXP and low-code platform initiatives, bridging product thinking with developer productivity. Based in Sakarya, Turkey, he combines enterprise-grade reliability (Kubernetes, OpenShift, OpenSearch) with an appetite for cutting-edge LLM tooling, tokenization and embedding engineering.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems, General at Girne American UniversityLeadership, Business Administration and Management, General, Leadership, Business Administration and Management, General at Boğaziçi University
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Github Skills (27)
content-management-system10
cms10
modular10
asp-net10
orchard-core10
orchard-cms10
dotnet-core10
odata10
multi-tenant10
minimalapis9
api-versioning9
nuget-package9
versioning9
webapi8
testing7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
emrahtokalak/emrahtokalak
Jun 2022 - Aug 2025
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
emrahtokalak/OrchardCore
Aug 2023 - Dec 2024
Orchard Core is an open-source modular and multi-tenant application framework built with ASP.NET Core, and a content management system (CMS) built on top of that framework.
Contributions:17 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 4 months
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