Caglar Iskender

Caglar Iskender is a highly experienced software engineering professional with a diverse background in natural language processing and machine learning. Currently serving as a Senior Staff Engineer at Samsara since March 2022, Caglar's prior role as Principal SDE at Amazon focused on Alexa Smart Home. Caglar's extensive career includes significant contributions as a Principal Applied Scientist at Microsoft, where involvement spanned the Bing Core Ranking Team and various projects related to SQL and machine learning. Early career experience includes software engineering roles at AGMLAB Information Technologies, where Caglar specialized in Turkish natural language processing, and research and teaching responsibilities at METU, alongside a visiting scholarship at The University of Arizona dedicated to natural language research.