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
Tiktok Scraper: Apify vs. Python vs. Axiom.ai
As AIMultiple’s CTO, I lead our social media data collection to analyze how businesses engage with their audiences. We benchmarked every TikTok scraper API on 300 pages (e.g., posts, profiles, search) to select top scrapers. Follow the links to visit their websites: Scrapers provide public TikTok data.
The Best LinkedIn Proxy Providers
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, gradual warm-ups, and avoiding aggressive automation.
Top 10+ DSPM Vendors to Enhance Data Security
As a technology and information security leader, I selected the top 10 DSPM solutions for discovering, classifying, and protecting sensitive data across IaaS, SaaS, and DBaaS environments.
Top 30 Cloud GPU Providers & Their GPUs
We benchmarked the 10 most common GPUs in typical scenarios (e.g., finetuning an LLM like Llama 3.2). Based on these learnings, if you: Ranking: Sponsors are listed with links and highlighted at the top. Next, hyperscalers are listed by their US market share. Then, providers are sorted by the number of models that they offer.
Cron Alternatives: Top Picks That Outperform
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.
Best Proxy Services for Twitter: No Captchas or Bans
We evaluated the top proxy service providers using 30 million requests in our enterprise proxy benchmark. We also used proxies for X.com (formerly Twitter) to assess their performance across various use cases and scales.
Best Python Web Scraping Libraries: Selenium vs Beautiful Soup
Based on my over a decade of software development experience, including my role as CTO at AIMultiple, where I led data collection from ~80,000 web domains, I have selected the top Python web scraping libraries.
15 Best Residential Proxy Service Providers
As AIMultiple’s CTO, I lead data collection from thousands of websites and run a residential proxy benchmark, including a load test with 100,000 parallel requests.
The Best Web Scraping APIs: 30+ APIs Analyzed
We benchmarked leading web scraper API services using 12,500 requests across various domains, including e-commerce platforms such as Amazon and Target, as well as search engines. Each request was sent in real-time and synchronously. See the top web scraping APIs and follow the links to learn more from the vendors: These APIs are for public data.
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