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Ece Bolat shared thisNow for what's next - I joined Riot Games AI Foundations team as Principal Technical Product Manager, AI/ML Platforms. Riot is a place of unusually creative people who care as much about craft as they do about underlying technology. Building AI/ML platforms here means giving our teams a foundation that amplifies what only they can imagine. That's a harder problem, and a more interesting one I'm looking forward to tackling. Fist bumps!
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Ece Bolat shared thisA long overdue update - After 7+ years, 2 cities, and many adventures, I decided to leave Amazon earlier this year. Looking back, I'm proud of the products, businesses, and teams I had the opportunity to help build and lead, from experiences across Fire Tablets, Fire TV, and Alexa to more recently productionalizing generative AI and ML foundations for advertising creatives. 7+ years leaves you with countless stories and many people who shaped the journey that I'd love to mention in this post, but the long-time Amazonian in me will invent and simplify: Huge thanks to Jeff Hotchkiss, Eric Ayers, and Young Lee for introducing me to this world, setting the foundation, and giving me opportunities far beyond what I expected when I first walked through Amazon's doors, including the privilege of working with David Limp so early in my Amazon career. Many of the standards I hold myself to today - how I think, operate, communicate, and lead - were shaped during those early years, and I carried those foundations with me from my first Day 1 to my very last one. What comes next deserves its own post. I wanted this chapter to have a separate moment first 🧡
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Ece Bolat reposted thisEce Bolat reposted thisExcited for our Amazon Upfront event on May 12. From premium entertainment to the latest in tech innovation, we’re bringing together a star-studded lineup that shows what’s possible when storytelling meets technology. 📺 Don’t miss it: https://ads.amazon/3Z4mMuR
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Ece Bolat shared thisExciting to see Alexa+ finally out in the world! Having worked on this during my time on Alexa, I know firsthand how much hard work and dedication went into making it happen. Huge congratulations to the team who carried it across the finish line - impressive milestone!Ece Bolat shared thisExcited to be with the team in NYC today rolling out the new Alexa+. Across Amazon, we’re harnessing the transformative power of GenAI to reimagine the experiences we offer customers, and Alexa+ is the latest example. She’s smarter, more capable, more personalized, and unlike chatbots, also takes action to help you get things done—which is at the heart of our mission at Amazon to make customers’ lives better and easier every day. Can’t wait to get Alexa+ into the hands of customers. https://lnkd.in/gZ8NHtWX
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Ece Bolat shared thisI had the privilege of presenting how Generative AI unlocks opportunities for optimal and impactful ad creatives at Amazon's internal AdTech conference, live-streamed globally. Excited to explore groundbreaking ways to transform creative experiences with our amazing team of engineers and scientists! #AdTech #GenerativeAI #CreativeExperience
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Ece Bolat reposted thisEce Bolat reposted this🎥 Missed it? Watch the Amazon unBoxed announcement of our new Audio Generator & AI Creative Studio here. 🚀
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Ece Bolat shared thisI've had great time at this year's #GraceHopperCelebration, joining 30,000+ remarkable women and non-binary technologists in Orlando, FL. #GHC23 was a good reminder that navigating the complexities of being a female immigrant in tech has never been easy, but I've had a great journey so far. Having closely worked with truly inspiring leaders such as Shelley Salomon and Kya Sainsbury-Carter in the past, I'm grateful for the opportunity to connect with other amazing role models at this conference. My highlight of the event was a candid chat with Shelmina Babai Abji, the author of #ShowYourWorth and a truly extraordinary individual. I'll remember her advice throughout my career and elevate others like me as I move up the ladder. "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” #gracehopper #thewayforward
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Ece Bolat shared thisToday, we’re announcing our new lineup of Echo devices, including the all-new Echo Pop, next generation of Echo Show 5, Echo Show 5 Kids, all-new Echo Buds, and the international availability of Echo Auto. This comes on the heels of Alexa-enabled devices surpassing a new milestone: half a billion devices sold globally! Proud of our teams and can’t wait to hear what customers think.https://https://lnkd.in/gZyynwz7New Amazon Echo devices: $50 Echo Buds, $40 Echo Pop speakerNew Amazon Echo devices: $50 Echo Buds, $40 Echo Pop speaker
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Documenting this for Scott Jamison. Andrew’s rare public compliment!
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Thank you, Young Lee! I had an absolute blast working in your org at Amazon. You set an incredibly high bar for leadership, so I’ll gladly take the “Right a Lot” and “great cocktail partner” endorsements. Looking forward to raising a glass to your retirement soon! 🍸
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Juliana Bassit Lavorini We have to play some games when you visit next!
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Ece Bolat liked thisEce Bolat liked thisThe organisations gaining an edge aren't buying differently. They're buying smarter! ✅ Amazon Business has reached USD$60 billion in annualised gross sales, serving more than 11 million organisations globally as businesses increasingly adopt AI-powered procurement tools, expanded product selection and business-focused delivery services. 🗣️ “Organizations of all sizes trust Amazon Business for vast selection, everyday value, and fast, reliable delivery—and that trust is reflected in our continued growth. As organizations look to do more with less, we’re inventing new ways to help them save time and money—and reinvest in growing their business.” - Shelley Salomon, Worldwide Vice President of Amazon Business Also mentioned in this article: - Scott Thompson, Vice President, Logistics, North America, at Carnival Corporation Read here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eY8r3bFC --------------------------- Content Director: Neil Perry for North America Outlook Magazine
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Ece Bolat liked thisEce Bolat liked thisMore than 1,400 procurement leaders joined us on Tuesday in Tokyo for Amazon Business Exchange Japan, and it was a privilege to spend the day with them. Two customer stories from the stage capture exactly why I’m so proud of the work our team is doing. At Panasonic, employees were purchasing work supplies individually, outside of any centralized system. They brought that purchasing into Amazon Business, and within six months, 100,000 employees had adopted it, eliminating nearly 10,000 hours of manual work. At Tsukui Corporation, which operates 770 nursing care centers across Japan, each facility had been purchasing independently, with no visibility at headquarters. They consolidated onto Amazon Business and reached 98% facility adoption within a year. Different organizations, same outcome: procurement works best when it's invisible, not because it doesn't matter, but because everything just works the way it should. To everyone who joined us in Tokyo this week, thank you. #ABX2026 Amazon Business #Procurement
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Ece Bolat liked thisEce Bolat liked thisWe just released the first two episodes of our new series, Building AI Agents from First Principles. The six-part video series builds a coding agent from scratch. You can think of it as a lightweight version of Claude Code or Codex, built with Python and a model API. No agent frameworks. The coding use case gives us a concrete way to build and test the agent, but the ideas are much broader. The goal is to teach the underlying mechanics in a way that transfers to other agent use cases. Episodes 1, The Loop, and 2, Tools, are out now. Episodes 3 and 4 cover compaction and working memory and will be released next week. Episodes 5 and 6 cover skills and subagents. Throughout the series, the agent works on a real codebase. It explores the repository and builds new features. We verify its work using the project’s actual test suite, including held-out tests the agent cannot see. Then, in the epilogue, we take the same agent and run it against problems from SWE-bench Verified. We test whether it can solve unfamiliar engineering problems in real repositories. There is also a second story behind the series: how the videos themselves are made. Every video was produced using Clyep, our technical video production service. Every frame, animation, code-editor scene, terminal sequence, and spoken word is defined in code. The entire production is version-controlled, editable, and maintainable like software. We have seen programmatic animation and scripted coding tutorials before, but very few productions that bring all of these elements together across a complete technical series. Over the next few weeks, I will share more about both the agent architecture and the production process. You can watch the series overview here: https://lnkd.in/gqcy_RZm Episodes 1 and 2 are in the accompanying playlist.Building AI Agents from First Principles: Series OverviewBuilding AI Agents from First Principles: Series Overview
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Ece Bolat liked thisEce Bolat liked thisI retired in January but never got around to making the official announcement. Those of you who have worked in software know that sometimes the launch date slips a little. This one was only delayed six months. Since retiring, the question I've been asked most is, "How's retirement?" Honestly? It's been fantastic. One thing I've discovered is retirement isn't about slowing down, it's about finally getting to choose where to spend your time. For me, that has meant crossing another Ironman 70.3 finish line in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, launching four apps on the Apple App Store, and finally picking up a guitar. I've also enjoyed more time boating on Lake Washington, traveling (Jackson Hole, Brazil, Argentina ... Australia is next), and, best of all, spending more time with Deepa Patel and Raj Thorp. Still to come? Getting my motorcycle and pilot's licenses, plenty of skiing, and cheering on my favorite sports teams - the UW Huskies, UConn Huskies, and Seahawks. Looking back, I feel incredibly fortunate. My career took me from delivering newspapers and serving as a U.S. Navy Corpsman during Desert Storm... to 18 years at Timex building Ironman watches and GPS devices... to 11+ years at Amazon working across Kindle, Prime Now, Delivery Experience, and Alexa. I was lucky to work on products that became part of people's everyday lives. I couldn't have asked for a better career. 40+ years was one heck of a run. I'm grateful for the people, experiences, and opportunities that made it so memorable. Retirement isn't the finish line. It's just the start of a different race.
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Ece Bolat liked thisEce Bolat liked thisWe’re #hiring for our Esports Platforms team! We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer specializing in frontend technologies to help us build world-class tournament experiences for players across League of Legends, VALORANT, Teamfight Tactics and more! This role is on my team, so don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. You can apply here: https://lnkd.in/gtepbYhD
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Ece Bolat liked thisEce Bolat liked thisServing up something sweet at Wimbledon! 🍓Nothing says British summer like Strawberries and Cream at Wimbledon, but this week, the Wendy's team brought a fresh twist to the tradition. We’ve been on the ground sampling our seasonal Strawberries & Cream Frosty, and I had to do a quick quality check myself! Safe to say, the original has some serious competition. Incredible work by our teams and agency partners Charlotte Mair Danielle Every bringing this activation to life.
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Ece Bolat liked thisSecond only to chatting with Alexa+ herself was talking AI Agentic Ads with Jon Wallett. Thanks for the invite and much more to come! #Alexa #Cannes Amazon Ads SeedtagEce Bolat liked thisNEW ADTECH HEROES EPISODE JUST DROPPED, LIVE FROM CANNES LIONS! 🦸♀️🌴 For this special episode, Jon Wallett sat down with Charlotte Maines, Vice President, Devices Content & Advertising at Amazon, to talk about what may be the most important shift in advertising right now: the end of keyword search and the rise of conversational, agentic commerce. Tune in to discover: 📊 How trillions of first-party signals are reshaping the way brands connect with consumers 🛒 How brands are already closing full purchase cycles inside a single conversation 🤝 Why great customer experiences will always drive great advertiser outcomes Listen to the full episode via the links in the comments. ⬇️
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Ece Bolat liked thisEce Bolat liked thisBy almost every measurable metric, the FIFA World Cup 26™ was one for the history books. FIFA is celebrating huge commercial success. Fans are celebrating their teams. The Coca-Cola Company is celebrating record incidence. And I'm celebrating the culmination of what has been the most ambitious storytelling project of my career to date: documenting the #TeamBehindTheGame. As the reports and presentations begin to fill with statistics, I've found myself thinking about something they can't capture: the human moments that aren't reflected in any KPI. I'll remember countless conversations with Daria M., brainstorming, challenging, and refining ideas, and trusting us to turn what began as a "small internal project" into one of Coca-Cola's most significant storytelling initiatives. I'll remember Gabriel E. Botto's words of encouragement that meant more to me than any award ever could. I'll remember Rodrigo Colares C. Nogueira, Matthew Wemple and Ighor Melo proudly taking me behind the scenes of the FCWC25 Final, and making me feel like part of the Venue Operations team. I'll remember swapping ideas, production war stories, crew recommendations and plenty of jokes with my co-Showrunner Matthew Montemaro over a meal at Cuerno in Mexico City. I'll remember the tired smiles after back-to-back flights, early mornings, late nights and one more activation behind us, knowing everyone around me was equally exhausted, but equally committed. There are dozens more. These are the moments that make projects of this scale succeed. For more than two years, I had the immense privilege of documenting how Coca-Cola prepared for and brought the FIFA World Cup 26 to life. The PowerPoint decks will reflect the statistics; I'll remember the people, the relationships and the stories. Thank you to everyone who trusted us with your stories: from the Coca-Cola FIFA team to our incredible bottling partners Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling, Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages, Swire Coca-Cola, USA, Arca Continental, Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages, Coca-Cola FEMSA. Thank you, Daria M., for believing that authentic stories were worth fighting for, and for having the courage to protect that vision. Thank you to the talented and dedicated team at StudioNow, whose partnership made the scale of this project possible. And finally, thank you to my team at Force Majeure, for never treating this as just another job, but always pushing the limits of what's possible, and remembering that every story we told reflected years of people's work, passion and pride. Hrisheek Panchmatia Paris Herbert-Taylor Adam C. Simon Moira Scarlett 🔜 Gamescom / XDS Noemi Laezza Olesia Grotska and many others.
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Riot Games
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Ranked 4th in EUROPE; BEST EBEC Case Study Competition Europe Final
Board of European Students of Technology
4th case study team among 26 countries' national champions.
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Winner in BEST National Case Study Competition
Board of European Student of Technology - Turkey
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Winner in UCARI National Case Study Competition
ITU & Anadolu Group
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English
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Turkish
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German
Elementary proficiency
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