BIROL SENTURK

Software Engineer

EXPERIENCE

08/2024 - Present
Toronto
4XDigital
Software Engineer

Architected and implemented agentic workflows to explore and extract factually grounded website exploration tools to create profiles for arbitrary online storefronts

Spearheaded creation of advertising campaign strategies, text and image assets, review and revise and iterate over campaign settings and assets

Designed and implemented fault tolerant scalable automated systems to create and optimize online advertising campaigns fully autonomously with given online storefronts

03/2024 - 08/2024
Toronto
StackAdapt
Software Engineer

Orchestrated and implemented various improvements to the real-time user data persistence pipeline

Directed compliance engineering efforts specifically around new requirements for GDPR and CPRA laws

06/2022 - 10/2023
Toronto
Amazon Ads - Sponsored Products
Software Development Engineer II

Contributed to development and upkeep of SP's real-time bid modulation system operating WW in 20 marketplaces, processing millions of requests per minute with near 100% availability

Collaborated with science team to design and implement multiple experiments investigating performance of different bidding strategies

Formulated technical strategy and orchestrated collaborative efforts with four cross-functional teams to execute seamless migration of team's data platform access model

03/2021 - 06/2022
Toronto
Amazon - Alexa Shopping
Software Development Engineer II

Contributed to microservice offering personalized grocery recommendations through Alexa voice commands, integrated to Amazon's grocery delivery services

Pioneered multi-modal grocery ordering experience for Echo Show devices with displays which expanded product into new cohort of customers

Developed customer experience for ordering items from list of thematic recommendations on special occasions such as holidays or sporting events

06/2016 - 02/2021
Providence, RI
Brown University - Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health
Software Engineer

Collaborated in two-engineer team to develop novel, free, and open-access systematic review tool tailored for health researchers

Innovated and built new tool on SRDR+ (https://srdrplus.ahrq.gov) for crafting dynamic systematic review summaries involving creating prototypes and conducting multiple rounds of usability testing with researchers

Engineered citation management solution accommodating diverse file formats and enabling retrieval of data from online research databases

Implemented abstract screening functionality with additional features such as improved term highlighting, ability to update past screening decisions, option to record reasons for screening decisions to SRDR+ website

Constructed automated tool to compare extracted research data and reconcile differences when necessary

Produced interactive visualization to display systematic review data interactively as connected graph where each node represents medical intervention and vertices show clinical trials comparing them

EDUCATION

ScB, Computer Science
Brown University
05/2016

SKILLS

Programming Languages
Java, Python, SQL, Ruby
Technologies
AWS, Rails, Apache Airflow, PySpark
Domains
Real Time Bidding, Distributed Systems, Microservices, High-throughput, Low-latency, Data Science

LANGUAGES

English
Fluent
Turkish
Native

PUBLICATIONS

Web-Based Interactive Presentation of Systematic Review Reports
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety
Adam G, Senturk B, Balk E, Sanders G, Jap J, Lallinger K, Butler M, Brasure M, Trikalinos T | 2019
Making Outcomes Data From Systematic Reviews Accessible – The Systematic Review Data Repository 2.0
Value In Health
Saldanha I, Smith B, Jap J, Senturk B, Lau J, Balk E | 2019
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