Istanbul, Türkiye
Enthusiastic about open source and open knowledge. Equipped with a broad skill set from maintaining and upgrading legacy codebases, building MVPs, and scaling mid-sized systems. Actively engaged in the world as an expat, language learner and activist. Committed to community-driven initiatives. Interested in startups, venture capital, and the way ambitious technology companies grow from early ideas into durable products.
– Building agentic AI chat interfaces and other LLM integrations. Full-stack implementation covering client-side state management, server-side tool orchestration, and artifact rendering. TypeScript, React, Node.js, Azure deployment. – Reporting to the VP of Engineering and Product Delivery Manager. Working across product engineering, feature implementation, and DevOps.
– Served as CTO of a livestreaming platform, scaling the product from prototype to production, and initiating the hiring of three additional developers in a fully-online team. – Maintained TYPO3 systems for SMEs as lead developer, including full code ownership; upgrades, stability, scalability, and long-term maintainability. Directly communicated with stakeholders to translate business requirements into solutions and reliable platforms. – Solved precise pain points across a variety of applications in the domains of code quality, security, performance, and maintenance overhead (i.e. technical debt reduction). – Regularly worked with a wide range of API and CMS integrations, including but not exclusive to Payload/Strapi/Wordpress, Salesforce/Pardot, GoToWebinar, Mercedes-Benz, Mobile.de, etc.