Volkan Gurel
Co-founder CEO at Layer
Miami, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolVolkan Gurel is a seasoned software leader and founder, currently Co-founder and CEO of Layer, where he guides AI-powered tooling to level up game art with pixel-perfect assets in seconds. With a decade of experience building and scaling distributed systems, databases, and machine learning pipelines, he blends optimization, data mining, and GIS to drive product excellence. His leadership track includes directing engineering at Airware and engineering management at Coinbase, with earlier roles at eBay and Hunch where ML-driven recommendations were central. An MIT-trained Operations Research and Electrical Engineering/Computer Science graduate, he brings rigorous analytical thinking to pragmatic, scalable solutions. Based in Miami, Volkan is focused on growing world-class engineering teams and turning complex data challenges into reliable software at scale.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Turkish, English, French
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Github Skills (109)
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transform10
lambda-functions9
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sklearn9
dbt9
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
volkangurel/vili
Dec 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:65 pushes, 28 branches in 2 years 10 months
volkangurel/aws-deployer-webpack-plugin
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
AWS Deployer Webpack Plugin
Contributions:19 PRs, 17 pushes, 19 branches in 6 months
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