Hi there, this is Miray, welcome to my site! Below is a small summary of my career journey to date.
I am currently working as a Senior Software Engineering Manager at Google Store. I rejoined Google around November 2020, right in the middle of COVID pandemic. My responsibility areas cover Traffic Acquisition (Emails, CRM, Marketing Engineering, PLAs, Personalization), Data Warehousing and Analytics Infrastructure, Privacy and Compliance, and Loss Management and Fraud Prevention.
While I was away from Google, I served as the Director of Software Engineering at Caspar.AI for about 15 months starting August 2019. Caspar.AI is a Silicon-Valley startup, which had offices in Rotterdam, Netherlands; Tokyo, Japan; and Los Angeles, CA. The company's focus is on bringing fluent smart home experience to multi-unit and senior housing.
Before starting my role at Caspar.AI, I spent 6 years at Google, Mountain View. At Google, I had the opportunity to build a broad experience by getting exposure to different technologies and business problems as I worked at three different product areas.
In my last role at Google, I was the Tech Lead/Manager for three sub teams (Decisions, Actions, and Policy) within Youtube Trust and Safety, managing roughly a team of 20+ engineers. My team worked on building and maintaining the backend services that process everything that is uploaded/edited on YouTube and taking actions to enforce Youtube community guidelines/policies once a particular content (e.g. video, comment, image, etc.) is found to be inappropriate.
My second role at Google was in the Play Analytics team, where I served as a tech lead backend engineer for commerce analytics as well as experimentation (a/b testing) analysis infrastructure, crunching lots and lots of big data. While at Play Analytics, I had the opportunity to master flume and data engineering by productionizing both streaming and batch data processing pipeline that feed off of logs from all Android devices in the world.
My first role at Google was within the Technical Infrastructure organization, more specifically within the Platforms Networking Software group (now part of Google Cloud), where I served as a tech lead for the model team which held all model data for Google's network infrastructure within and across Google's data centers.
Prior to joining Google, I got my Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in 2013 under the supervision of Rick Carley and Kathleen Carley's supervision. During my Ph.D. I was also affiliated with CASOS Research Center within Institute of Software Research at Carnegie Mellon University. My research work primarily focused on developing methods and algorithms for dynamic social network analysis, with an interdisciplinary focus.
I received my BS and MS degrees from Bilkent University in 2007 and 2009, both in Computer Engineering. During my masters studies, I was fortunate to be advised by Ibrahim Korpeoglu and Ezhan Karasan, focusing on scheduling in wireless mesh networks.
Between 2021 Fall - June 2023, I took up a role for teaching part time in Bilkent University as an adjunct lecturer and started two graduate level courses: one on social and dynamic network analysis, and one on cloud computing (based on Google Cloud Foundations course). The courses were open to both senior year students and graduate students in engineering disciplines.
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I am currently working as a Senior Software Engineering Manager at Google Store. I rejoined Google around November 2020, right in the middle of COVID pandemic. My responsibility areas cover Traffic Acquisition (Emails, CRM, Marketing Engineering, PLAs, Personalization), Data Warehousing and Analytics Infrastructure, Privacy and Compliance, and Loss Management and Fraud Prevention.
While I was away from Google, I served as the Director of Software Engineering at Caspar.AI for about 15 months starting August 2019. Caspar.AI is a Silicon-Valley startup, which had offices in Rotterdam, Netherlands; Tokyo, Japan; and Los Angeles, CA. The company's focus is on bringing fluent smart home experience to multi-unit and senior housing.
Before starting my role at Caspar.AI, I spent 6 years at Google, Mountain View. At Google, I had the opportunity to build a broad experience by getting exposure to different technologies and business problems as I worked at three different product areas.
In my last role at Google, I was the Tech Lead/Manager for three sub teams (Decisions, Actions, and Policy) within Youtube Trust and Safety, managing roughly a team of 20+ engineers. My team worked on building and maintaining the backend services that process everything that is uploaded/edited on YouTube and taking actions to enforce Youtube community guidelines/policies once a particular content (e.g. video, comment, image, etc.) is found to be inappropriate.
My second role at Google was in the Play Analytics team, where I served as a tech lead backend engineer for commerce analytics as well as experimentation (a/b testing) analysis infrastructure, crunching lots and lots of big data. While at Play Analytics, I had the opportunity to master flume and data engineering by productionizing both streaming and batch data processing pipeline that feed off of logs from all Android devices in the world.
My first role at Google was within the Technical Infrastructure organization, more specifically within the Platforms Networking Software group (now part of Google Cloud), where I served as a tech lead for the model team which held all model data for Google's network infrastructure within and across Google's data centers.
Prior to joining Google, I got my Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in 2013 under the supervision of Rick Carley and Kathleen Carley's supervision. During my Ph.D. I was also affiliated with CASOS Research Center within Institute of Software Research at Carnegie Mellon University. My research work primarily focused on developing methods and algorithms for dynamic social network analysis, with an interdisciplinary focus.
I received my BS and MS degrees from Bilkent University in 2007 and 2009, both in Computer Engineering. During my masters studies, I was fortunate to be advised by Ibrahim Korpeoglu and Ezhan Karasan, focusing on scheduling in wireless mesh networks.
Between 2021 Fall - June 2023, I took up a role for teaching part time in Bilkent University as an adjunct lecturer and started two graduate level courses: one on social and dynamic network analysis, and one on cloud computing (based on Google Cloud Foundations course). The courses were open to both senior year students and graduate students in engineering disciplines.
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