Ozgur Dogan Ugurlu
Founder of Chatty Courses
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder / Full Stack AI Engineer
2022 - 2024
- Built retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems - both vanilla and with LlamaIndex - for various domains: online courses, franchise manuals, customer support, and standardized testing (LSAT, lab tech exams). - Architected a Docker Swarm bare metal backend with automated deploys and rollbacks. - Developed an adjustable-speed, ChatGPT-like frontend for the AI assistant. - Built an AI powered pseudonymizer that runs locally to follow EU’s privacy laws. - Contributed to LlamaIndex.
Interim CTO
2022 - 2022
- Reduced outages by 80% by implementing engineering processes and a predictable release cycle. - Coached the team to establish a productive relationship with the CEO.
Angel Investor
2021 - 2022
Head of Engineering & Product
2019 - 2021
- Hired a new team to expand to new markets. - Increased revenue by 20%.
Senior Engineering and Product Manager
2018 - 2019
- Led the development of an improved analytics infrastructure for the Electron client. - Introduced a new notifications architecture that played well with accessibility.
Symphony Communication Services Holdings is a messaging platform that offers a range of communication products, and real-time data services.
Raised $511,000,000.00 from MUFG Innovation Partners, Standard Chartered Bank and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group.
Product Manager
2017 - 2018
- Designed an MVP for ChatEngine, founded a team and delivered on time. - Launched ChatEngine and drove over 1000 leads in the first 8 weeks of launch. - Launched Serverless Functions with a hackathon which drove 250+ registrations in hours.
PubNub Data Stream Network is a secure global Data Stream Network that enables mobile and web developers to build and scale real-time apps.
Raised $134,100,000.00 from The Raine Group, HPE Growth, Bosch Ventures, Scale Venture Partners and Sapphire Ventures.
Co-founder & CEO
2015 - 2016
Senior Software Engineer
2012 - 2015
- Joined as the 6th engineer, built 3 generations of backends (Splunk, MongoDB, HBase/Hadoop) that consumed over 5 billion events per day. - Helped build the team to >350 people.
Optimizely is a digital experience platform for unlocking digital potential, content, commerce, and optimization.
Raised $251,200,000.00 from Bridge Bank.
Senior Software Engineer
2011 - 2012
Replay Solutions creates software to help software developers get their products done on time, with as few bugs as possible.
Raised $15,200,000.00 from Sigma Partners and Pelion Venture Partners.
Embedded Software Engineer
2010 - 2011
Gracenote is an entertainment data and technology provider across Music, Video and Sports.
Raised $36,475,000.00 from Bessemer Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital.