Cihad Öge

Protecting billions of users at Meta by engineering large-scale adversarially robust systems to detect and prevent account takeover, fraud, and abuse.

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• Won Gold, Silver and Bronze medals in Turkey's National Olympiad in Informatics (TUBITAK) before the IOI bronze, then chose Bilkent for computer engineering; the olympiad pipeline routed him to elite CS, and by his 2nd year he had already been accepted to a Facebook internship in Silicon Valley - the first step toward his current Meta role.2013
• Represented Turkey at IOI 2010 on the national team, earning a Bronze medal at rank 113 with 583/820 points, one of the deepest competitive-programming credentials a Turkish student can hold.Aug 21, 2010
• Joined Meta in 2015 straight from a brief software-engineering stint at Comodo (Ankara, 2014) and a Bilkent BS, and has stayed ~11 years, now Senior Staff SWE in London - a long-tenure, single-employer path atypical for high-growth engineers, suggesting depth and org trust over job-hopping.2015
• Current focus is adversarial robustness and abuse prevention: he protects billions of users at Meta by building large-scale systems to detect account takeover, fraud and abuse - a security/integrity specialist rather than a product engineer.
• Co-founded Cineworm (2011-2013), a movie-taste social network, while still an undergraduate - his only founding stint, and it wound down as he pivoted to engineering roles.2011