Mehmet Taşan, MSc

Senior Engineering Manager @ Softtech | GenAI, Multi-agent systems

Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye

About

Multi-agent systems and AI-driven architectures have been at the core of my professional journey — combining deep technical expertise with strategic vision to build production-grade AI systems. With over 15 years of experience in software development, I have led the design and implementation of scalable, enterprise-grade solutions across international projects. In recent years, my focus has shifted toward Agentic AI platforms and Agent Harness architectures, which I see as the new operating system layer for AI systems. My work centers around designing and operationalizing: Agent Harness architectures (policy engine, HITL, memory, tool orchestration) Deep Agents & multi-step reasoning systems Multi-agent frameworks (CrewAI, LangGraph, Langflow, AutoGen, FlowiseAI) Agent lifecycle, deployment, and production readiness I specialize in Generative AI and Agentic Systems, particularly: Agentic AI Architectures for autonomous, goal-driven systems RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and enterprise knowledge systems Agent Monitoring & Observability (tracing, TTFT, token-level insights, decision tracking) Agent Evaluation & Benchmarking (reasoning quality, tool usage accuracy, reliability) DSPy-based optimization for improving reasoning and prompt strategies Agent Governance (policy enforcement, safety, compliance, HITL flows) A2A (Agent-to-Agent Communication) for collaborative workflows Function Calling & Model Context Protocol (MCP) for structured reasoning and tool integration Planning & Reasoning in LLMs (multi-step execution, decomposition strategies) Guardrails & PII Protection for enterprise-grade safety Production-grade Agent Deployment (containerized, scalable, cloud/on-prem) Agent lifecycle management & orchestration pipelines Kubernetes & cloud-native architectures Real-time AI systems & streaming pipelines Speech interfaces (STT/TTS) for voice-enabled AI agents

Experience

  • Softtech (6 yrs 11 mos)
    • Senior Engineering Manager | GenAI, Multi-agent systems
      May 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

      Multi-agent systems and AI-driven architectures have been at the core of my professional journey — combining deep technical expertise with strategic vision to build production-grade AI systems. With over 15 years of experience in software development, I have led the design and implementation of scalable, enterprise-grade solutions across international projects. In recent years, my focus has shifted toward Agentic AI platforms and Agent Harness architectures, which I see as the new operating system layer for AI systems. My work centers around designing and operationalizing: Agent Harness architectures (policy engine, HITL, memory, tool orchestration) Deep Agents & multi-step reasoning systems Multi-agent frameworks (CrewAI, LangGraph, Langflow, AutoGen, FlowiseAI) Agent lifecycle, deployment, and production readiness I specialize in Generative AI and Agentic Systems, particularly: Agentic AI Architectures for autonomous, goal-driven systems x RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and enterprise knowledge systems Agent Monitoring & Observability (tracing, TTFT, token-level insights, decision tracking) Agent Evaluation & Benchmarking (reasoning quality, tool usage accuracy, reliability) DSPy-based optimization for improving reasoning and prompt strategies Agent Governance (policy enforcement, safety, compliance, HITL flows) A2A (Agent-to-Agent Communication) for collaborative workflows Function Calling & Model Context Protocol (MCP) for structured reasoning and tool integration Planning & Reasoning in LLMs (multi-step execution, decomposition strategies) Guardrails & PII Protection for enterprise-grade safety Production-grade Agent Deployment (containerized, scalable, cloud/on-prem) Agent lifecycle management & orchestration pipelines Kubernetes & cloud-native architectures Real-time AI systems & streaming pipelines Speech interfaces (STT/TTS) for voice-enabled AI agents

    • Solutions Architect
      Apr 2021 - May 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Responsible for development of Data Analytics Platform Product which have 3 main modules such as BI(Business Intelligence), Ingest(New Generation ETL), CEP(Complex Event Processing) Taking part of all product development life cycle, for instance, product management, technical design, software development and deployment.

    • Software Architect
      Sep 2019 - Apr 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

      Design and development of Data Visualization,Analytics and Complex Event Processing platform. Use software development best practices like DDD,Event Storming. Using Vue.js,PWA,ElasticSearch,Apache Nifi,Apache Pulsar,Java Spring Boot,Docker technologies.

  • ING Bank Turkey (4 yrs)
    • CRM Technology Product Manager
      Jun 2017 - Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      Architect of CRM software development team. Developing web based banking applications for campaign integration projects by using Python,J2EE,JAVA, JSP, Spring, Hibernate,JMS,WSO2,IBM MQ,RabbitMQ and Oracle technologies. Development of the new CRM applications from beginning of the project to the end. I also implement db scripts(procedure,function,package,view) in Oracle for CRM campaign tools(UNICA CAMPAIGN,INTERACT,EVAM). Designing Complex Event Processing system. I also design domain models at Bizz Design(Enterprise Studio) tool with TOGAF standards. Designing and developing Chatbot, AI and NLP architecture.

    • Senior Software Consultant
      Sep 2015 - Jun 2017 · 1 yr 10 mos

      J2EE,PL/SQL Developer, Working with scrum software development methodology. Implementing Oracle procedures,functions,packages for campaign tools. Development of Java projects between campaing tools and banking system. Designing IBM UNICA,INTERACT,Detect(Campaign tool) scenarios API development(pl/sql) for campaing tools(UNICA,INTERACT,DETECT) Use Linux operating system for working with Campaign tools.

  • Software Development Project Expert at TEB
    Sep 2013 - Sep 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    PL/SQL Developer, Implementing Oracle procedures, functions,packages for campaign tools. Use table partitions for store big data. Using Oracle Golden Gate tech for data process. Designing EVAM(Campaign tool) scenarios API development(pl/sql) for campaign tools(UNICA,EVAM) Use Linux operating system for working with Campaign tools.

  • Software Specialist at Omsan
    Mar 2012 - Sep 2013 · 1 yr 7 mos

    Java, PL/SQL Developer. Development and deployment of ERP system using Java,JSP and JSF(RichFaces) technologies. Implementing interfaces between ERP system and Oracle ERP system. Use help desk system for support users for ERP system. Development ODI(ORACLE) interfaces for ETL. Development of Car Request Application(ASP.NET). Development of new user interfaces with ADF(ORACLE Application Development Framework) Designing and implementing partner interfaces(Shell Partner Card,Opet Yakıt Kart) in ERP system with using Web service technology.

  • Senior Programmer at Hitit Computer Services
    Sep 2008 - Aug 2011 · 3 yrs

    Java(JSP), PL/SQL Developer. I have participated in the FFP (Software called as Miles&Smiles at Turkish Airlines) development and deployment project of Egypt Airlines,Aegean Airlines,Sata Airlines,Mahan Airlines,AeroSvit Airlines. I have also participated in the Loyalty Management System development and deployment project of Qatar Telecom.I have spent 4 months at customer side in Doha/QATAR. I have implemented an interface program between Pegasus Airlines and Vodafone.(Cep Fly)