Miraç Akdağ
Technical Founder & Product Engineer
Summary
Product Engineer and technical founder with a background in high-scale backend engineering and 0→1 product development across B2B SaaS, recruitment technology and consumer AI. Strongest at the intersection of engineering, product thinking and execution: turning ambiguous product problems into reliable, production-ready software.
Experience
Co-Founder
Unilise Technology
Co-founded an independent technology company building AI-powered B2B and consumer software products. Hands-on across product, engineering, customer discovery and commercial execution.
ApexFit — AI Personal Trainer
Founder & Product Engineer
- Architected and built the complete product as sole engineer: React Native mobile, Fastify backend, Next.js admin, AI systems, subscriptions, observability and infrastructure
- Designed OpenAI-powered AI Coach with tool-based access to application state
- Built multi-stage reliability layer around LLM-generated workout programs
- Apple Health and Health Connect integration, App Store and Google Play subscriptions
- PostHog, OpenTelemetry, Elastic APM, Prometheus, Grafana observability stack
- Private beta with 30+ testers ahead of public launch
Unilise — AI Recruitment Platform
- Led the creation of an AI-powered Applicant Tracking System with configurable hiring workflows and AI-assisted evaluation
- Conducted 100+ customer discovery and sales meetings with HR and business stakeholders
- Designed configurable AI candidate-evaluation workflows using position-specific criteria and explainable scoring
- Paying enterprise customers including MACFit, Niğtaş, Kalem Yazılım, Ozztech, Infotech, NNG Energy, and Divert
Venture Lead
Doğuş Grubu — Hirely
- Led Hirely through Doğuş Group's InvenDO corporate entrepreneurship program, advancing from ~90 applicant teams
- Secured ~$130K one-year product and operating budget
- Built and managed cross-functional team, owned hiring, budget, roadmap, pricing and commercial strategy
- 25K+ candidates across live recruitment processes, multiple enterprise paying customers
- Secured signed $100K lead investment commitment from Domino Ventures at $1.5M valuation
Software Engineer
Related Digital
- Owned SMS delivery domain processing tens of millions of messages per day (~30–50M/day)
- Led 3–4 month modernization of major legacy SMS components on modern .NET
- Migrated database-backed messaging workflows to RabbitMQ
- Developed and maintained integrations with 15+ external SMS providers
- Owned production troubleshooting and coordinated incident response
Earlier Work
Othila Games — Co-Founder & Backend Developer. Turkish-market game price comparison platform. Grew to thousands of users through community distribution.
Commercial Software — QR-based patient journey system for healthcare and centralized inventory management for food industry.
Education
BSc Management Information Systems — Nişantaşı University · 2020–2022 · GPA 3.35/4.00 · Honors
Associate Degree, Computer Programming — Nişantaşı University · 2018–2020 · GPA 3.13/4.00 · Honors
Technologies
TypeScriptNode.jsReact NativeReactNext.js.NET / C#PostgreSQLRedisRabbitMQDockerOpenAIFastifyExpoPrismaPostHogOpenTelemetryGitHub ActionsAzure Pipelines
Languages
Turkish — Native · English — Professional Working Proficiency