San Francisco, CA

Engineering leader, founder, AI expert.

I’m Osman, an engineering leader based in San Francisco. I currently serve at Fieldguide as Senior Engineering Manager, leading the AI Platform, AI Quality, and Data Science teams.

Osman Başkaya

Currently at

Fieldguide

Sr Engineering Manager, AI

A decade of building AI in production.

I’m an AI engineering leader and machine learning researcher. My work spans AI platforms, agent systems, evaluation and quality, NLP, and applied research — from building scalable AI infrastructure to fine-tuning and post-training models for better quality, efficiency, and cost.

At Fieldguide, my teams own the agent platform behind an AI-native audit and advisory product: the LLM gateway, agent orchestration, observability, and document processing. We established an eval-first culture, so every model, prompt, or code change ships with evidence that it makes the agents better.

Previously, I co-founded Lumiro AI, where I led product and engineering to build an AI-powered tour guide platform delivering personalized, real-time travel experiences.

Earlier, I led engineering initiatives at Twilio, including a centralized machine learning platform and the evolution of Twilio Autopilot. Prior to that, I spent three years as a Staff Machine Learning Engineer building production AI and ML systems at scale.

Experience

From research labs to founding a company — a path through NLP, ML platforms and AI products.

Full work history
  1. Company
    Fieldguide
    Role
    Sr Engineering Manager, AI
    Date
    2025 — Present
  2. Company
    Lumiro
    Role
    Co-founder & CEO
    Date
    2024 — 2025
  3. Company
    Twilio
    Role
    Engineering Manager
    Date
    2021 — 2023
  4. Company
    Twilio
    Role
    Staff Machine Learning Engineer
    Date
    2018 — 2021
  5. Company
    Seven Bridges Genomics & Totient
    Role
    Research Engineer
    Date
    2016 — 2018
  6. Company
    Huawei Research
    Role
    Researcher
    Date
    2015 — 2016

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