Sedat Dogan
Sedat is a technology and information security leader with 20 years of experience in software development, network infrastructure and cybersecurity
Technical focus
Sedat is a daily user of the products that he technically reviews. As part of his role at AIMultiple, he oversees the collection of numerous public data points on more than 80,000 B2B technology vendors using proxy, web scraping and web unblocker solutions from multiple providers.
Sedat is also the technical lead for running AIMultiple proxy and web unblocker benchmarks that measures the performance of top web data infrastructure providers annually.In addition, he designs and conducts AI benchmarks to evaluate the efficiency, scalability, and accuracy of leading artificial intelligence solutions.
Professional experience
Currently, Sedat is the CTO at AIMultiple.
He is also a board advisor at
- a VC investing in early-stage technology firms
- Ödeal, a regional digital payment platform serving 125,000 merchants with its POS solutions.
Previously, he worked as
- CTO at Bionluk, an online marketplace for freelancers
- CTO at Expertera, a global expertise platform
- CEO of a cybersecurity services provider
- CTO and co-founder at a social network
He has 20 years of experience as a white-hat hacker and development guru focused on programming languages and server architectures.
He directed and secured the technological infrastructure and cybersecurity operations of the last seven national elections in his country.
He has also been recognized in the cybersecurity Hall of Fame by global technology leaders including Twitter.
Education
Sedat holds dual bachelor's degrees in engineering from Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi.
Latest Articles from Sedat
S3 Compatible Cloud Object Storage Benchmark
I have been using Amazon S3 for over a decade. I benchmarked leading S3-compatible object storage providers across nine criteria: ease of migration, data transfer fees, storage costs, retrieval times, mountability, static web hosting, and more. AWS dominates the public cloud market, and S3 is its most widely used storage service.
Cron Alternatives: Top Picks That Outperform in 2026
As a technology and information security professional, I have been using cron across a wide range of applications for the past 20 years. For example, at AIMultiple, we use crontab to orchestrate ~20 cron jobs that run every minute and ~30 less frequent jobs. Based on these experiences, I compiled the most effective cron alternatives.
AI Coding Benchmark: Claude code vs Cursor
In AI coding, the market has fragmented into two categories: Agentic CLI tools and AI code editors embedded in IDEs. Each claims to automate development. Few comparisons show how they differ under identical workloads.
Analysis of Top 5 Firewall Change Management Software
As the Chief Technology Officer (CISO) of a rapidly-growing organization, I oversee a growing network footprint.
12 Best & Cheapest Residential Proxies in 2026 (Tested & Ranked)
As AIMultiple’s CTO, I lead data collection from thousands of websites. To find the most reliable residential IP network, we ran benchmarks including a load test with 100,000 parallel requests. Below is our 2026 ranking of the best residential proxy providers, split by budget and performance.
Benchmarked the 10 Best Datacenter Proxy Providers
We evaluated the top 5 datacenter proxy providers using 15,000 requests to assess speed, reliability, and cost across search, e-commerce, and social media sites.
Best Facebook Scrapers: Apify, Bright Data & Decodo
Using Python and a managed Facebook scraping API lets you collect public posts, comments, likes, and shares. This tutorial demonstrates how to scrape Facebook posts by keyword and retrieve their URLs via Google search.
Best LinkedIn Scrapers: Bright Data, Apify & PhantomBuster
We benchmarked the best LinkedIn scraper tools using 9,000 requests across posts, profiles, and job listings. This guide covers two main areas: Apify vs.
Benchmarked the 6 Best Web Scraping APIs
We benchmarked the best web scraper API services using 12,500 requests across various domains. This web crawling services comparison goes beyond marketing claims to reveal real-time performance in e-commerce (Amazon, Target), search engines (SERP), and social media. If you are looking for the fastest latency or an affordable scraping API, our data-driven analysis below will guide your choice.
Best TikTok Scraping Tools in 2026 (Python Guide)
In 2026, TikTok moved its U.S. operations to the TikTok USDS Joint Venture, managed by Oracle. This changed how the platform handles data and anti-bot measures. To understand how well different tools handle TikTok data, we tested the leading TikTok scrapers by running 500 unique TikTok videos per provider.
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