Cansin Yildiz
Staff Software Engineer, San Francisco
Fifteen years building and running production systems, most recently the platforms behind AI products.
Engineer #3 at Udemy, founding Head of Engineering at Jasper Health, and Staff Software Engineer on Abridge's Foundations team. Currently building self-hosted AI infrastructure.
- 15 yearsshipping production software
- Udemy #3third engineer hired, nearly eight years to Software Architect
- AbridgeStaff Software Engineer, Foundations team, ambient clinical AI
- Jasper Healthfirst engineering hire, built the stack solo, grew the team to five
Now
Building self-hosted AI infrastructure: the plumbing that lets a company run language models and agents on its own hardware. MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers, model serving with vLLM and Ollama, speech pipelines, and agents on the Claude Agent SDK.
Where I have been
- 2025 - PresentIndependent Engineer, AI infrastructure and tooling
- 2024 - 2025Abridge, Staff Software Engineer, Foundations
- 2024Woven (Everyday Agents), Founding Staff Software Engineer
- 2022 - 2023Collective, Staff Software Engineer, promoted to Senior Engineering Manager
- 2020 - 2021Jasper Health (Redesign Health), Founding Head of Engineering
- 2011 - 2019Udemy, engineer #3 to Software Architect, led two company-wide platform rewrites
Get in touch
The fastest way to reach me is email: cansinyildiz@gmail.com