Building & leading
technology.
I'm a Software Engineer
15+ years building dependable backends, cloud infrastructure and AI-driven systems — across agriculture, banking, climate, insurance, energy and fitness. Open to leadership and hands-on engineering work alike.
About
I like the hard, unglamorous parts — clean architecture, dependable systems, and teams that ship calmly. Over 15+ years I've gone from engineer to CTO, building backends, cloud infrastructure and AI-driven systems, most of it at startups I founded or helped grow. BEng in Electronics & Communication Engineering. "Every breakthrough starts with an impossible dream."
Experience
Mat Sportive Inc. — CTO
Sports-tech company: leading technology end to end — product & platform strategy, cloud operations and scaling, data-driven growth, and a distributed engineering team across time zones. Delaware, US.
Momentup Development Co. — Software Architect · Contract
Project-based engagement: architected and built RemoteSite for Arventek — a cloud construction-analytics platform with 3D digital twins, aerial mapping and AI-driven progress, quality & budget tracking for infrastructure projects. Delivered end to end and handed over.
Urban Active — Senior Software Engineer
Fitness ecosystem with two products — Urban Active+ and Urban Active Studio: built native iOS & Android apps and a full web platform end to end on modern, cloud-based infrastructure.
UIGEO — Founder
Data-services platform: RESTful APIs for market prices, weather, lightning, drought & satellite data — serving agriculture, insurance and energy. SF Bay Area.
Selvi Technology — Software Engineer
Defense tech: AI-based computer vision & GNSS-free visual navigation products (GORU®, UYAZ®); also built software on Aselsan's MIRSAD integrated security & surveillance platform (contract).
OPIA Group — Founder
Founded and ran a software consultancy for 5+ years — end-to-end development, systems integration and corporate solutions that helped client organizations streamline their operations. Tallinn, EE.
Artistanbul — Software Engineer
Education-tech & free-software house: custom e-learning solutions on the Open edX platform, plus contributions to open-source projects.
tarla.io — Software Engineer → CTO
8+ years at one company through its evolution: started as an engineer shipping 20+ client applications, promoted to CTO when the software arm became tarla.io — a smart-farming platform trusted by institutions, academics and thousands of farmers, on a cloud-based microservices architecture powering 3+ products and 100+ services. The same data infrastructure also fed Sekerbank's Seker Mobil and Isbank's Imece Mobil apps, TARSIM's state satellite project, services for 20+ companies — and the datasets behind a United Nations project finalist.
iklim.co — Co-Founder
Storm intelligence for insurers: real-time severe-weather detection and early warnings (storms, snow, rainfall) on a nationwide lightning-detection network, helping insurance companies reduce weather-related payouts. Trusted by majors such as AXA and Allianz — one insurer alone monitors 300K+ customers through the platform's risk-zone alerts.
meteoblue AG — Software Engineer
Built the company's first Android app and owned it end to end — from project planning and strategy to delivery. Basel, Switzerland.
Huawei Technologies — Electronic & Communication Engineer
Ankara — VLAN and hub/switch/router configurations, Cisco Packet Tracer modeling.
Suleyman Demirel University — Network Operator
Ran campus-wide network operations: internet planning and VLAN setups across Cisco, Huawei and HP switches & routers, eduroam and Wi-Fi infrastructure (access points, modems), port management, and network security & troubleshooting.
Awards and honors
The FoodTech 500
List of Most Innovative Global Agriculture and Food Initiatives.
Zurich Insurance — World Innovation Competition
Zone / Region Winner.
European Union — SME Tool, Brussels
Project Software Award.
UNIDO PFAN — Climate & Clean Energy Investment Forum, Vienna
Highly Promising Project Finalist in Combat Climate Change.
Get in the Ring
Turkish Champion.
United Nations — Data for Climate Action
Data Visualization Champion.
Turkish German Innovation Summit
Most Innovative Initiative Finalist.
Ankara Startup
Best Enterprise.
Growtech Agriculture Fair
Most Innovative Agricultural Information Product.
Startup Turkey
Finalist.
Tech Ankara Proje Pazari
Best Enterprise Finalist.
Web Summit Lisbon
Machine Demo Finalist.
Eurocloud
Europe's Best Cloud Service.
IBM SmartCamp Istanbul
The Best Second Innovation.
ICT 2015 — Fractal
City Farming Most Innovative Companies Finalist.
TEB Innovation Contest
Turkish Economy Bank — Innovation Jury Special Award.
United Nations — TUBITAK Cleantech
Water Efficiency Most Innovative Service.
Finansbank — "Bir Fikrin mi Var?"
Best Business Idea Finalist.
Selected work
Urban Active +
Native iOS & Android apps + full web platform
tarla.io
100+ services · thousands of farmers & institutions
iklim.co
300K+ insured customers monitored · AXA & Allianz
UIGEO
Weather, satellite & market data via RESTful APIs
RemoteSite
3D digital twins + AI-driven progress tracking
Open source
2,500+ contributions · 300+ stars (MuscleMap, Swift)