About
I'm a technical founder and product engineer with a background in backend systems and a habit of moving toward increasingly ambiguous product problems.
I started as a .NET backend engineer owning enterprise production systems, then gradually expanded into product ownership, team building, enterprise sales, fundraising and company leadership. Most recently I architected and built ApexFit end-to-end as a solo engineer — spanning mobile applications, backend services, AI agents, subscriptions, analytics and production infrastructure.
I'm strongest at the intersection of engineering, product thinking and execution: turning ambiguous product problems into reliable, production-ready software.
Career progression
The thread through my career has been a gradual expansion from pure engineering toward the entire product-building stack. Starting with production backend systems processing tens of millions of transactions daily, I moved into venture building where I learned that shipping a product requires much more than code. Through Hirely, I took on team management, budget allocation, pricing, commercial strategy and fundraising. With Unilise Technology, I co-founded an independent company and conducted 100+ customer discovery meetings to ground product decisions in real user problems. With ApexFit, I returned to hands-on end-to-end product engineering — building every layer myself.
Timeline
Computer Programming
Associate degree at Nişantaşı University. First commercial software projects.
Management Information Systems
Bachelor's degree at Nişantaşı University. Co-founded Othila Games.
Related Digital
Joined as intern, progressed to engineer. Owned SMS delivery systems processing tens of millions of messages per day.
Hirely at Doğuş Group
Led a recruitment technology venture through a corporate entrepreneurship program. Expanded from engineering into product, team and commercial ownership.
Unilise Technology
Co-founded an independent technology company. Building AI-powered recruitment and consumer software products.
ApexFit
Architected and built an AI personal training product end-to-end as sole engineer.
Principles
Production over demos.
Evidence over hype.
Simplicity where complexity has no leverage.
Product decisions grounded in real user problems.
AI systems need deterministic boundaries.
Strong engineering should serve product outcomes.
Education
Management Information Systems
Nişantaşı University · 2020–2022 · GPA 3.35/4.00 · Honors
Computer Programming
Nişantaşı University · 2018–2020 · GPA 3.13/4.00 · Honors
Languages
Turkish — Native
English — Professional Working Proficiency