Summary
Tarik Koc is a software engineer and engineering leader based in New York with a decade of experience delivering full-stack, data-driven, and ML-enabled systems across startups and large enterprises. As Head of Engineering at OccamzRazor, he secured multimillion-dollar funding, built an NLP-powered information extraction pipeline, an in-house literature-curation microservice, and a multi-stage knowledge-graph training and prediction pipeline, while growing a team of world-class ML/software engineers; his drug-discovery work was showcased at NeurIPS. At YieldMo, he architected a hybrid mobile SDK that doubled mobile pageviews, stabilized a campaign-management web app, and scaled the engineering team from 4 to about 40 engineers. He is currently applying his breadth of backend, frontend, data pipelines, and developer tooling at Amazon. His career began in medical tech and public-sector roles, and he holds a Virginia Tech degree in computer science, biomathematics, bioinformatics, and computational biology, reflecting a rigorous, cross-disciplinary foundation.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Computer Science, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at Virginia Tech