Ufuk BOMBAR

📄 CV (PDF)

👋 About

Internet Measurements Researcher and Software Engineer
Linux, Neovim, and hiking enthusiast.

📍 Paris, France
📧 ufuk+cv@bombar.dev 🌍 LinkedIn · GitHub · Google Scholar

🎓 Education

Ph.D. in Internet Measurements — Sorbonne University, LIP6
09/2024 – present
EDITE Doctoral School (French public doctoral contract)
→ Research focus: Measuring Event Impact and Propagation in the Internet.

M.Sc. in Distributed Computing and Computer Vision — Sorbonne University
09/2022 – 09/2024
Awarded SFRI Scholarship.

B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering — Bilkent University
10/2017 – 01/2022
Graduated summa cum laude.

💼 Experience

Research Intern — Nokia Bell Labs, France
04/2024 – 09/2024

  • Integrated DISPOSE, a distributed network management platform, with Kubernetes.
  • Bridged programmable infrastructure with container orchestration.

Software Developer — LIP6 Research Lab (Dioptra Team)
04/2023 – 04/2024

  • Maintained and extended EdgeNet, a Kubernetes-based research platform.
  • Optimized resource cache management for a proof-of-concept federation system.

Research Engineer — ArgosAI Technology, Turkey
08/2021 – 08/2022

  • Built a generative AI model in PyTorch to reduce airport runway downtime.
  • Deployed large-scale training with KubeFlow on Kubernetes.

Full Stack Developer — Borda Technologies, Turkey
06/2020 – 08/2021

  • Designed a hospital task management system (ASP.NET Core + Flutter).
  • Built an infection tracking system (AWS Lambda + Flutter) used during the pandemic.
  • Selected among 4 engineers in a competitive mentorship program (2500+ applicants).

Research Student — Özer Lab (Bilkent University)
02/2020 – 03/2021

  • Investigated 2D/3D pose estimation for sports and disaster response.

Visiting Scholar — University of Mississippi, USA
06/2019 – 08/2019

  • Studied parallel flood simulation algorithms.
  • Developed a geography-aware navigation API.

⚙️ Technical Projects

EdgeNet — Distributed Kubernetes Testbed
→ Maintained and optimized federation layer written in Go.

Kubernetes Extension for Live Migration
→ Implemented live container migration using CRIU and Containerd.

Distributed Card Game (Ethereum)
→ Solidity smart contracts + React + Web3 frontend.

Pandetect — Mask Detection Pipeline
→ Multi-container image analysis (TypeScript + Python), custom C-based streaming protocol.

Depth-Aware 3D Pose Estimator
→ PyTorch model inferring 3D skeletal poses from monocular images.

More on GitHub.

🌍 Voluntary Work

English Teacher — AIESEC SAMS18, North Macedonia
Taught English at the SOS Children’s Village.

Code Educator — Code Education for Kids, Turkey
Introduced programming through Scratch workshops.

🧠 Languages & Skills

Languages: Turkish (C2), English (C2), French (B1)
Programming: Go, Python, Bash, C, Rust, Lua, OCaml, Java

References available on request.