Sedat Dogan
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
VPS Benchmark: Hetzner vs Digital Ocean
We benchmarked 6 Virtual Private Server (VPS) providers by running ~1,200 automated tests per server across CPU, memory, disk I/O, and network speed using sysbench, fio, and speedtest-cli. We also documented the full signup-to-SSH experience for each provider. We used 4 vCPU (Shared) / 8 GB Plans of each provider, without adding any extras or…
Best Facebook Scrapers: Apify, Oxylabs & Decodo
We benchmarked seven web scraping APIs with 9,000 Facebook requests on 1,500 URLs: 500 profiles, 500 posts and 500 reels. For every request we measured success rate, completion time, and the number of parsed metadata fields returned. Bright Data returned JSON for every Facebook page type. Apify returned JSON for profiles and posts, SerpApi and…
Best TikTok Scrapers: Scrape Video Data
A TikTok scraper collects public data from TikTok, including video metadata, profile details, engagement metrics, and comments, without using TikTok’s official API. We benchmarked six web scraping APIs with 6,000 TikTok requests, sending each provider the same 1,000 URLs: 500 profiles and 500 posts. For every request we measured success rate, completion time, and the…
The Best LinkedIn Scrapers
We benchmarked four scraping APIs with 6,000 LinkedIn requests, sending each provider the same 1,500 URLs: 500 profiles, 500 company pages and 500 posts. For every request we measured success rate, completion time, and the number of parsed metadata fields returned. Read our methodology for details about the LinkedIn benchmark. Bright Data was the only…
Top 5 Website Unblockers Benchmarked & Compared
We benchmarked 4 leading web data providers across the top 10,000 domains, running a total of 260,000 requests. Each provider was tested at multiple concurrency levels to measure how they behave under increasing load. We also ran a separate markdown extraction test on 10,000 URLs, with Exa added, to measure how often each provider returns…
Cron Alternatives: Top Picks Compared
As a technology and information security professional, I have been using cron across system administration, data processing, and security monitoring 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…
Best LinkedIn Proxies: Automation & Scraping
We benchmarked different proxy types for LinkedIn scraping and account management. A proxy alone won’t keep a LinkedIn account safe. Success comes from slow, human-like actions, one high-quality residential or mobile proxy per account, and avoiding aggressive automation. The providers below are compared for general proxy capabilities and lawful, authorized use cases. Bright Data offers…
Top 5 Cyber Threat Intelligence Services Benchmarked
We ran hands-on proofs of concept on 5 cyber threat intelligence services, scoring each against the same 33 criteria across 8 categories, using a shared probe set of historical IOCs, 6 threat actors, and 4 exploited CVEs. The most counterintuitive result is that free AlienVault OTX matched CrowdStrike, the priciest platform here, on automation. See…
We Benchmarked the Best Web Scraping APIs
We benchmarked web data providers in categories ranging from e-commerce and social media to jobs, real estate and food delivery, sending more than 600,000 requests to 10,000+ live domains to see how they handle enterprise data collection. Our web data scraping page summarizes the results of all our web data benchmarks in one place. Below,…
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. We benchmarked each agent across 10 full-stack web development tasks, performing ~600 atomic validation checks per agent and more than 9,600…
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