Berkay Barlas
Software Engineer @ Apple
Software Engineer at Apple making Safari Intelligent. M.Sc. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.
Experience
Software Engineer @ Apple Intelligence Platform
Apple · Sept 2025 - Present
Building iOS Apple Intelligence Platform components, system APIs, internal tooling, and an on-device scheduler for LLM and multimodal tasks.
Software Engineer @ Safari (iOS)
Apple · July 2023 - Sept 2025
Built and optimized Safari components in Objective-C and Swift. Contributed to DMA projects and AI/ML framework integrations.
Software Engineering Intern
Google · Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
Built a tool to track latency changes in Google Cloud products. Implemented a TypeScript dashboard and Go backend processing billions of logs.
Software Engineering Intern
Apple · May 2022 - Aug 2022
Shipped features for a major Safari release, Fixed Safari macOS and WebKit bugs.
Founding Frontend Lead
Vagon.io · Mar 2020 - Jan 2022
Led frontend development of a remote desktop controller app. Improved streaming performance by 30% and reduced fraud by 80%.
Early Engineer
Zeplin.io (Y Combinator 2015) · Jun 2019 - Aug 2020
Built React and Electron applications. Led a performance overhaul that reduced code redundancy and improved page load speed by 30%.
Education
M.Sc. Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology · Aug 2021 - May 2023
GPA: 4.0/4.0 | Coursework: Advanced ML Systems, Distributed Systems, Big Data Systems, Advanced Internet Systems
B.S. Computer Engineering & Electrical Engineering (Double Major)
Koc University · Oct 2015 - May 2021
Full scholarship (top 300 among 2 million students). Exchange programs at TUM and NTU Singapore.
Skills
Programming Languages
Frameworks & Tools
Technologies
Honors & Awards
Apple Swift Student Challenge Judge
Apple · 2025
Evaluated global student submissions for technical quality, creativity, and execution.
Stanford University Innovation Fellow
Stanford d.school · 2019 - 2021
Completed the design thinking program at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. Served as a section leader in Stanford's Java teaching program.
Hackathon Best Project Awards
Pixery Hackathon'19 & Ciceksepeti Hackathon'20 · 2019
Placed 1st among 30 teams.
Turkish University Exam Top Performer
National Exam · 2015
Ranked 273rd (top 0.01%) among more than 2 million students.
Blog
Notes on engineering and product building.
Rebuilding an Application From Scratch
November 16, 2020
Projects
Selected work and side projects.
Ugrad — Private Social Network
Senior Design Project