David Dogukan Erenel
Engineer / Manager in New York
🚀 Product-focused engineering leader with an entrepreneurial mindset, experienced in shipping meaningful products end-to-end.
🤝 Team-first manager who thrives working with diverse people, supporting their growth, and building healthy, high-trust environments.
🎨 Passionate about creating human-centered, aesthetically thoughtful technology; from rapid prototypes to polished, production-ready experiences.
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Some projects that I am proud of:
2025
HiddenWhale.ai: Launched this side project in September, a fintech tool designed to track the option trade ideas of financial influencers. http://hiddenwhale.ai
Multi-LLM Compare: Developed a compact application (https://huggingface.co/spaces/ereneld/multi-llm-compare) that allows users to compare various Large Language Models (LLMs) based on cost, latency, and output, utilizing the user's own API key.
2018 - 2025 at Meta
Shops Ads Buyer Surface Latency Improvements: Led 5 internal and 1 external team to improve the Buyer Surface, resulting in significant incremental ad spend.
Country-based Ads Restriction : Technically led a cross-organizational effort of approximately 60 people to implement ads restrictions with configurations. (News Link)
Presidential Election Ads Restriction : Technically co-led the implementation of ads restrictions related to the 2020 presidential election. (Policy Link)
2015 - 2018 at IBM
AI-Driven 3D Application Deal: Secured a $5M+ deal by leading proof-of-concept development and delivering live demos for AI-driven interactive 3D applications utilizing Watson AI. (Demo Video)
Patents and Awards: Filed 7 patents with the USPTO and received multiple internal IBM awards. (Patent Link)
Prior 2015
"Dolmus Driver" Game: Shipped the mobile game "Dolmus Driver," which achieved over 3 million downloads. (Video Link) (Note: The game was taken offline after the company's acquisition.)
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🏌🏽♂️ Currently: Engineer
👨🏽💻 Previously: Engineer/Manager at Meta (~7 yrs), IBM (~3 yrs), plus ~5 yrs in startups
🎩 Co-founded: Gripati, a mobile gaming startup
🚀 MS Thesis: Machine Learning
📄 Paper: https://www.arxiv.org/abs/1604.07660
🎥 Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPzg3gHINPs