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Founder & CTO | AI Product Engineer | Full-Stack & Real-Time Systems

Ataşehir, İstanbul, Turkey
Worldwide
M.S. in Engineering Management, Marmara University
Ataşehir, İstanbul, Turkey
Worldwide
M.S. in Engineering Management, Marmara University

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About me

Istanbul-based founder and hands-on engineer with 16 years at Turkish Airlines and eight years of founder-level ownership. I build AI-enabled products, full-stack applications and real-time systems from discovery through delivery.

Artificial IntelligenceAmazon Web ServicesPython (Programming Language)Node.jsTypeScriptWebRTCReact.jsFull Stack Development
Hands-on founder and CTO with 25+ years in software engineering, including 16 years at Turkish Airlines and eight years as a founder. I build and lead AI-enabled products, full-stack web/mobile applications and real-time communication systems.

Core skills: TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Node.js, Python, C++, Java, C#, API and backend architecture, system integration, AWS, WebRTC, Jitsi, real-time audio/video, LLM integrations, RAG, workflow automation, accessibility features and AI-assisted software delivery.

Selected work includes airline reservation, ticketing and fraud-related systems; BridgeChamp web/mobile product delivery; and AccessMeet technical delivery across real-time captioning, translation, OCR and simplified content. I work from product discovery through implementation, testing, release and iteration, with human review of AI-generated work.

Experience

Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2012

Languages

EnglishFluentTurkishNative speaker

Project history

Founder & Lead Product Engineer - BridgeChamp

BridgeChamp
Led hands-on delivery of a B2C subscription bridge platform from 2021 to 2025. Built React/TypeScript web and mobile experiences, real-time features, and a C++ service around an existing solver that reduced average response time from roughly 7-8 to 2-3 seconds. Worked across product discovery, implementation, testing, and production support.

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