Sefik Ilkin Serengil
@serengil.bsky.social
👨💻Software Engineer @Neo4j 🎓 GSU alumni 🏠 West Londoner 🇬🇧UK Global Talent 🗽Neo-Liberal 💬 Code wins arguments 🔗 https://sefiks.com
Don’t underestimate peer review activities as evidence when you apply for US EB1-A and UK Global Talent. Your participation as a judge of others’ work in your field is proof your expertise is trusted internationally
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October 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Don’t underestimate peer review activities as evidence when you apply for US EB1-A and UK Global Talent. Your participation as a judge of others’ work in your field is proof your expertise is trusted internationally
sefiks.com/2025/10/19/u...
sefiks.com/2025/10/19/u...
H-1B will soon require $100K salary 💸
If you’re a skilled professional, there are better, faster ways to work in the US & UK.
📌 EB1-A (US)
📌 Global Talent Visa (UK)
I made a playlist with step-by-step guides for extraordinary professionals
🔗 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
If you’re a skilled professional, there are better, faster ways to work in the US & UK.
📌 EB1-A (US)
📌 Global Talent Visa (UK)
I made a playlist with step-by-step guides for extraordinary professionals
🔗 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
UK & USA Extraordinary Talent Visas (Global Talent, EB1-A, EB2-NIW) - YouTube
In this playlist, we’ll primarily discuss strategies for securing the UK Global Talent Visa and US EB1-A & EB2-NIW, including how to obtain an endorsement, e...
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September 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
H-1B will soon require $100K salary 💸
If you’re a skilled professional, there are better, faster ways to work in the US & UK.
📌 EB1-A (US)
📌 Global Talent Visa (UK)
I made a playlist with step-by-step guides for extraordinary professionals
🔗 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
If you’re a skilled professional, there are better, faster ways to work in the US & UK.
📌 EB1-A (US)
📌 Global Talent Visa (UK)
I made a playlist with step-by-step guides for extraordinary professionals
🔗 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Event-Driven Architecture Explained with Python, FastAPI, Flask & Kafka
YouTube video by Sefik Ilkin Serengil
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September 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
My recent talk "DeepFace: A De Facto Standard for Facial Recognition in Python" at AI Signals Meetup is now live on YouTube!
If you couldn’t attend the event, here’s your chance to watch it!
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYZ9...
If you couldn’t attend the event, here’s your chance to watch it!
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYZ9...
September 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
My recent talk "DeepFace: A De Facto Standard for Facial Recognition in Python" at AI Signals Meetup is now live on YouTube!
If you couldn’t attend the event, here’s your chance to watch it!
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYZ9...
If you couldn’t attend the event, here’s your chance to watch it!
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYZ9...
Building an Atomic, High-Throughput Election System: A System Design Case Study
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Building an Atomic, High-Throughput Election System: A System Design Case Study - Sefik Ilkin Serengil
We'll build a real-time, high-throughput election result tracker with Redis, using atomic, idempotent vote counting for fast results.
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September 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Building an Atomic, High-Throughput Election System: A System Design Case Study
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I will be speaking at AI Signals on 16th Sep about "DeepFace: A De Facto Standard for Facial Recognition in Python". If you’ll be in the city and want to say hi, you’re more than welcome to join!
📅 Tue, 16th Sept 6:30pm
📍 Civo Tech Junction, London
🔗 aisignals.org.uk/events/ai-si...
📅 Tue, 16th Sept 6:30pm
📍 Civo Tech Junction, London
🔗 aisignals.org.uk/events/ai-si...
September 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I will be speaking at AI Signals on 16th Sep about "DeepFace: A De Facto Standard for Facial Recognition in Python". If you’ll be in the city and want to say hi, you’re more than welcome to join!
📅 Tue, 16th Sept 6:30pm
📍 Civo Tech Junction, London
🔗 aisignals.org.uk/events/ai-si...
📅 Tue, 16th Sept 6:30pm
📍 Civo Tech Junction, London
🔗 aisignals.org.uk/events/ai-si...
A Practical Guide to Event-Driven Architecture in Python, FastAPI and Kafka
🔗 sefiks.com/2025/09/10/a...
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A Practical Guide to Dependency Injection and Event-Driven Architecture in FastAPI and Kafka - Sefik Ilkin Serengil
FastAPI has quickly become one of the most popular frameworks in the Python ecosystem because of its modern design, async-first … More
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September 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
A Practical Guide to Event-Driven Architecture in Python, FastAPI and Kafka
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How Starbucks manages queues?
☕ One barista takes your name & order
☕ Another makes your drink
☕ Other restocks beans
Each is triggered by an event. In software, we call this Event-Driven Architecture.
Explained it with Python + Flask + Kafka
👉 sefiks.com/2025/09/04/a...
☕ One barista takes your name & order
☕ Another makes your drink
☕ Other restocks beans
Each is triggered by an event. In software, we call this Event-Driven Architecture.
Explained it with Python + Flask + Kafka
👉 sefiks.com/2025/09/04/a...
A Gentle Introduction to Event Driven Architecture in Python, Flask and Kafka - Sefik Ilkin Serengil
In this blog post, we’ll explore how to implement an event-driven system in Python and Flask using Kafka as a message broker.
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September 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
How Starbucks manages queues?
☕ One barista takes your name & order
☕ Another makes your drink
☕ Other restocks beans
Each is triggered by an event. In software, we call this Event-Driven Architecture.
Explained it with Python + Flask + Kafka
👉 sefiks.com/2025/09/04/a...
☕ One barista takes your name & order
☕ Another makes your drink
☕ Other restocks beans
Each is triggered by an event. In software, we call this Event-Driven Architecture.
Explained it with Python + Flask + Kafka
👉 sefiks.com/2025/09/04/a...
We use cosine/Euclidean for embedding models to make hard classifications. But it has a big limitation: no confidence and no interpretability.
In my latest post, I show how to use logistic regression to turn distances into percentage confidence scores
sefiks.com/2025/09/02/f...
In my latest post, I show how to use logistic regression to turn distances into percentage confidence scores
sefiks.com/2025/09/02/f...
How to Calculate Percentage-Based Confidence Scores from Similarities of Embedding Models - Sefik Ilkin Serengil
Embedding models have become a cornerstone of modern machine learning, powering everything from recommendation engines and document search to verification … More
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September 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
We use cosine/Euclidean for embedding models to make hard classifications. But it has a big limitation: no confidence and no interpretability.
In my latest post, I show how to use logistic regression to turn distances into percentage confidence scores
sefiks.com/2025/09/02/f...
In my latest post, I show how to use logistic regression to turn distances into percentage confidence scores
sefiks.com/2025/09/02/f...
The UK 🇬🇧 Global Talent & US 🇺🇸 EB1-A / EB2-NIW visas offer:
🏡 Live in the UK or US
💼 Work without employer sponsorship
⚡ Fast-track approval, no backlogs
Your publications could be your ticket 🎟
📹 youtu.be/aNMwDQo1xus
🏡 Live in the UK or US
💼 Work without employer sponsorship
⚡ Fast-track approval, no backlogs
Your publications could be your ticket 🎟
📹 youtu.be/aNMwDQo1xus
Publications for UK & USA Extraordinary Talent Visas
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August 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The UK 🇬🇧 Global Talent & US 🇺🇸 EB1-A / EB2-NIW visas offer:
🏡 Live in the UK or US
💼 Work without employer sponsorship
⚡ Fast-track approval, no backlogs
Your publications could be your ticket 🎟
📹 youtu.be/aNMwDQo1xus
🏡 Live in the UK or US
💼 Work without employer sponsorship
⚡ Fast-track approval, no backlogs
Your publications could be your ticket 🎟
📹 youtu.be/aNMwDQo1xus
🚀 New in DeepFace v0.0.94
✅ Confidence score (0–100)
✅ Logistic regression under the hood
✅ Works in verify, find, & stream
🎥 youtu.be/QQ4vO6UOsFo
✅ Confidence score (0–100)
✅ Logistic regression under the hood
✅ Works in verify, find, & stream
🎥 youtu.be/QQ4vO6UOsFo
What’s New in DeepFace: Confidence Score & Smarter Predictions
YouTube video by Sefik Ilkin Serengil
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August 10, 2025 at 7:29 AM
🚀 New in DeepFace v0.0.94
✅ Confidence score (0–100)
✅ Logistic regression under the hood
✅ Works in verify, find, & stream
🎥 youtu.be/QQ4vO6UOsFo
✅ Confidence score (0–100)
✅ Logistic regression under the hood
✅ Works in verify, find, & stream
🎥 youtu.be/QQ4vO6UOsFo
Reaganism, Thatcherism and Besimizm
August 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Reaganism, Thatcherism and Besimizm
🚨 New Feature Alert
Beyond distance and hard classifications - now, it gets a confidence score with logistic regression!
Tell you how likely two faces belong to the same person — not just yes or no.
Smarter. More flexible. Still free & open-source.
🔗 github.com/serengil/dee...
Beyond distance and hard classifications - now, it gets a confidence score with logistic regression!
Tell you how likely two faces belong to the same person — not just yes or no.
Smarter. More flexible. Still free & open-source.
🔗 github.com/serengil/dee...
July 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
🚨 New Feature Alert
Beyond distance and hard classifications - now, it gets a confidence score with logistic regression!
Tell you how likely two faces belong to the same person — not just yes or no.
Smarter. More flexible. Still free & open-source.
🔗 github.com/serengil/dee...
Beyond distance and hard classifications - now, it gets a confidence score with logistic regression!
Tell you how likely two faces belong to the same person — not just yes or no.
Smarter. More flexible. Still free & open-source.
🔗 github.com/serengil/dee...
An Interstellar Milestone: DeepFace just passed 20,000 Stars on GitHub 🎉 A huge thanks to its amazing community for making this possible 🙏
🔗 github.com/serengil/dee...
Haven't starred the repo yet? Your star can help spread the word about this cool project!
#python #deepface
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Haven't starred the repo yet? Your star can help spread the word about this cool project!
#python #deepface
July 29, 2025 at 8:55 AM
An Interstellar Milestone: DeepFace just passed 20,000 Stars on GitHub 🎉 A huge thanks to its amazing community for making this possible 🙏
🔗 github.com/serengil/dee...
Haven't starred the repo yet? Your star can help spread the word about this cool project!
#python #deepface
🔗 github.com/serengil/dee...
Haven't starred the repo yet? Your star can help spread the word about this cool project!
#python #deepface
What Are Vector Embeddings? And Why They Matter in AI
Embeddings power facial recognition, search and LLMs. They work with even 512d vectors but as humans we can understand vectors up to 3 dimensions.
Read my blog post to figure out embeddings simply
sefiks.com/2025/06/28/w...
Embeddings power facial recognition, search and LLMs. They work with even 512d vectors but as humans we can understand vectors up to 3 dimensions.
Read my blog post to figure out embeddings simply
sefiks.com/2025/06/28/w...
What Are Vector Embeddings? And Why They Matter in AI - Sefik Ilkin Serengil
If you’ve spent time exploring machine learning or AI recently, you’ve probably heard the term “embedding” — vector embedding, word … More
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June 30, 2025 at 10:54 AM
What Are Vector Embeddings? And Why They Matter in AI
Embeddings power facial recognition, search and LLMs. They work with even 512d vectors but as humans we can understand vectors up to 3 dimensions.
Read my blog post to figure out embeddings simply
sefiks.com/2025/06/28/w...
Embeddings power facial recognition, search and LLMs. They work with even 512d vectors but as humans we can understand vectors up to 3 dimensions.
Read my blog post to figure out embeddings simply
sefiks.com/2025/06/28/w...
Did you know your open source contributions can significantly strengthen your UK Global Talent Visa application?
🔗 youtu.be/F3rAfuWGO3g
🔗 youtu.be/F3rAfuWGO3g
Open Source as Evidence for UK Global Talent Visa
YouTube video by Sefik Ilkin Serengil
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May 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Did you know your open source contributions can significantly strengthen your UK Global Talent Visa application?
🔗 youtu.be/F3rAfuWGO3g
🔗 youtu.be/F3rAfuWGO3g
İngiltere Yeni Göç Politikası ve Global Yetenek Vizesi
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İngiltere Yeni Göç Politikası ve Global Yetenek Vizesi
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May 18, 2025 at 8:23 AM
İngiltere Yeni Göç Politikası ve Global Yetenek Vizesi
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Is Global Talent Visa Still Worth It After the New UK Immigration Policy?
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Is Global Talent Visa Still Worth It After the New UK Immigration Policy?
YouTube video by Sefik Ilkin Serengil
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May 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Is Global Talent Visa Still Worth It After the New UK Immigration Policy?
youtu.be/SonktpJ_6GY
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🇬🇧 The Life in the UK test is also set to change under the new immigration rules. Now may be the best time to take it before new rules come in.
youtu.be/X7JXH1KR9MQ
#uk #immigration
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#uk #immigration
How To Pass The Life in the UK Test for British Citizenship
YouTube video by Sefik Ilkin Serengil
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May 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
🇬🇧 The Life in the UK test is also set to change under the new immigration rules. Now may be the best time to take it before new rules come in.
youtu.be/X7JXH1KR9MQ
#uk #immigration
youtu.be/X7JXH1KR9MQ
#uk #immigration
The UK governments' plans released today and propose increasing the permanent residency requirement from 5 to 10 years.
Switching to the Global Talent visa may make you immediately eligible for ILR!
A full section is dedicated to Global Talent…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzpc...
Switching to the Global Talent visa may make you immediately eligible for ILR!
A full section is dedicated to Global Talent…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzpc...
How I Got Endorsement for UK Global Talent Visa As A Software Engineer
YouTube video by Sefik Ilkin Serengil
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May 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The UK governments' plans released today and propose increasing the permanent residency requirement from 5 to 10 years.
Switching to the Global Talent visa may make you immediately eligible for ILR!
A full section is dedicated to Global Talent…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzpc...
Switching to the Global Talent visa may make you immediately eligible for ILR!
A full section is dedicated to Global Talent…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzpc...
🇬🇧 Planning to become a British citizen? You’ll need to pass the Life in the UK Test first.
This fast-track guide covers everything you need to know with easy-to-remember supporting visuals.
📺 youtu.be/X7JXH1KR9MQ
This fast-track guide covers everything you need to know with easy-to-remember supporting visuals.
📺 youtu.be/X7JXH1KR9MQ
Fast-Track Guide To The Life in the UK Test for British Citizenship
YouTube video by Sefik Ilkin Serengil
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May 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🇬🇧 Planning to become a British citizen? You’ll need to pass the Life in the UK Test first.
This fast-track guide covers everything you need to know with easy-to-remember supporting visuals.
📺 youtu.be/X7JXH1KR9MQ
This fast-track guide covers everything you need to know with easy-to-remember supporting visuals.
📺 youtu.be/X7JXH1KR9MQ
Süresiz oturum izni, İngiliz vatandaşlığına giden yolda önemli bir aşamadır 🇬🇧. Çoğu vize türünde bu süreç genellikle 5 yıl sürerken, ancak ben 3 yıldan kısa bir sürede alabildim⏳ Hızlı yolunu öğrenmek için bu videoya göz atın.
🔗 youtu.be/boJbGvHghPA
🔗 youtu.be/boJbGvHghPA
İngiltere'de Süresiz Oturumu (ILR) 3 Yıldan Kısa Sürede Nasıl Aldım?
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April 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Süresiz oturum izni, İngiliz vatandaşlığına giden yolda önemli bir aşamadır 🇬🇧. Çoğu vize türünde bu süreç genellikle 5 yıl sürerken, ancak ben 3 yıldan kısa bir sürede alabildim⏳ Hızlı yolunu öğrenmek için bu videoya göz atın.
🔗 youtu.be/boJbGvHghPA
🔗 youtu.be/boJbGvHghPA