Mustafa Akur
PHD Graduate Student
Ankara, Ankara, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMustafa Akur is an electrical and electronics engineer and PhD student at OHSU with eight years of experience building algorithmic and big-data systems, particularly query engines and performance-focused back-end code. He has driven production-ready improvements at companies like Synnada and Aselsan and contributes as a PMC/committer to prominent Apache projects such as DataFusion and Arrow, where his work on sorting, repartitioning and windowing improved efficiency and test coverage. Comfortable moving between research and production, he combines signal-processing and algorithm development roots (audio source separation, computer vision) with practical systems engineering. Based in Ankara, he brings a methodical, bookish approach to hard problems and a track record of simplifying complex code paths for maintainability and speed.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Oregon Health & Science UniversityHigh school Science, High school Science at Konya Meram High School of Science (MFL)Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Boğaziçi University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
arrow-keys10
fusion10
sql10
query-engine10
rust10
arrows10
arrow-js10
big-data9
data-structures8
data-structure8
algorithms8
algorithm8
apache-kafka6
apache-beam6
flink-streaming6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/datafusion
Aug 2024 - Feb 2026
Apache DataFusion SQL Query Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 19 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Mustafa primarily contributed to the Apache DataFusion SQL Query Engine's back-end functionalities, focusing on performance and code simplification. Their work included modifications in the physical plan, specifically in the `sort`, `repartition`, and windowing functionalities. The contributions involved renaming functions, replacing utility functions, and addressing minor issues to improve the engine's efficiency and maintainability. The user also added tests to improve code coverage.
sql-queryarrowbig-datadataframedatafusion
akurmustafa/akurmustafa.github.io
Dec 2021 - Apr 2026
Contributions:70 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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